I’m sure you already know all about this, but I still think it’s totally bad-ass that Nikola Jokic did harness racing as a young person. It’s like horse racing, except instead of riding the beast yourself you put yourself in a little cart and get dragged behind the beast.
I say it’s bad-ass because my impression is that harness racing is a brutal and dangerous “sport”. There’s no roll-cage, there’s no seatbelt, and there’s a bunch of barely-controlled animals running around who could smash your head with their hooves like a watermelon. Helmets are no match for a drugged-out equine who doesn’t know what the heck is going on. BRUTAL! I guess it’s lucky that Jokic did do that sport for too long, or we probably wouldn’t be seeing him in the NBA. Maybe in a wheelchair basketball league, but not in the NBA (is that discrimination? probs).