AFTERNOON This past summer, Nikola Jokić watched his friend Nemanja Pavkov work in an auto body business in Sombor, Serbia. Even though they have been friends for ages, Jokić has never before given his friend's income any thought. From the front of his shop, where he was always on the phone with his customers, to the rear, where he was supervising a paint job for one of Jokić's sulkies—two-wheeled, chariot-like vehicles that attach to Jokić's horses as they race down the street around his track. Jokić did his best to stay up. Read more...