Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic tested positive for COVID-19. Tim Fuller-USA TODAY Sports

Nuggets All-Star center Nikola Jokic tests positive for COVID-19

By Zac Wassink | Last updated Jun 23, 2020 4:57 PM ET

Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic has become the latest NBA star to test positive for the coronavirus.

On Tuesday, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski confirmed the two-time All-Star tested positive while in Serbia but is asymptomatic. Jokic may be cleared to travel to Denver next week.

Reporting with @WindhorstESPN: Nuggets star Nikola Jokic tested positive for the coronavirus in Serbia and his return to the U.S. is temporarily delayed. He’s been asymptomatic since testing positive last week. Jokic is expected to be cleared to travel to Denver within a week.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 23, 2020

Jokic and other players are set to complete brief in-market training sessions before traveling to Orlando, Fla., on or around July 7, where those involved in the 22-team format will quarantine, live and play through the remainder of their campaigns.

The NBA scheduled the restart of the season for July 30.

The 25-year-old, who is the best passing big man in the game today, was averaging 20.2 PPG, 10.2 REB and 6.9 AST when the league halted play on March 11 after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus.

Zac Wassink

Zac Wassink is a longtime sports news writer and PFWA member who began his career in 2006 and has had his work featured on Yardbarker, MSN, Yahoo Sports and Bleacher Report. He is also a football and futbol aficionado who is probably yelling about Tottenham Hotspur at the moment and who chanted for Matt Harvey to start the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 2015 World Series at Citi Field. You can find him on X at @ZacWassink

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