Nikola Jokić makes Serbia’s preliminary basketball squad for Paris 2024

Basketball star Nikola Jokić has been named in Serbia’s preliminary squad for the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

The Denver Nuggets center is part of the 16-player lineup announced this week, with the final squads to be confirmed closer to the start of the tournament.

Jokić last competed in the Olympic Games at Rio 2016, where he won silver with Serbia after being beaten by the United States in the men's final. They will be hoping to go one step further at Paris 2024, with several other NBA players in the squad including Bogdan Bogdanović of the Atlanta Hawks and Vasilije Micić of the Charlotte Hawks.

Serbia’s opening match of the Paris 2024 tournament is a repeat of the Rio 2016 gold medal match, as they take on the US on 28 July 2024 at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille.

Serbia provisional men's basketball squad for the Olympic Games Paris 2024

Serbia provisional squad: Vasilije Micić, Aleksej Pokuševski, Bogdan Bogdanović, Nikola Jović, Nikola Jokić, Vladimir Lučić, Marko Gudurić, Vanja Marinković, Ognjen Dobrić, Filip Petrushev, Nikola Milutinov, Dušan Ristić, Aleksa Avramović, Ognjen Jaramaz, Dejan Davidovac and Uroš Plavšić.

*As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games, athletes' participation at the Paris Games depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at Paris 2024.