Udonis Haslem and the Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets are all set to meet each other again Tuesday night, and the loudest narrative for this game isn't about title contenders from the East and West facing each other but on what kind of atmosphere exactly will the FTX Arena be engulfed in once Nikola Jokic takes the floor.
It could be remembered that Jokic and Heat forward Markieff Morris had a fiery confrontation in the first meeting back in early November in Denver, one that led to a social media war of words between Jokic's brothers and Markeff's twin, Marcus.
Haslem is are of the news that Jokic's siblings have tickets to the rematch, so he fired a clear warning to the Serbians, ahead of the contest, per Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald.
“I have nothing to do with that, man. We’re going to play a basketball game,” Haslem said. “That’s over with. I don’t have nothing to do with that. I keep hearing about the Jokic brothers buying tickets to come to the game. They better stay in line and don’t come down there and start trouble. Miami is my city. It’s my city.”
Jokic will not be able to share the floor with Markieff Morris in this game, however. Morris is not with the Heat in their current road trip, as he continues to recover from a neck injury suffered from that exact hit Jokic laid on him in the initial encounter between these two teams.
In any case, expect the FTX Arena's security group to be ready.
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