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Nikola Mirotic: Jimmy Butler is probably the hardest-working player I’ve ever seen. He had these crazy routines. He’d go to the practice facility at 3:00 a.m. with his personal coach. He’d lift weights at 3:00 a.m., then do basketball drills at 5:00 a.m. There were days when Jimmy would show up at practice, take off his shoes, and just sit on the side watching us practice. I’d wonder, “Why isn’t Jimmy practicing?” Then someone would tell me, “Jimmy already got his workout in with his coach earlier.” It was his own routine, and it worked for him. He had his own rhythm, and after a while, I understood it. Jimmy was great. Every night, whether he practiced with us or not, he gave his all in games. He competed every single night.

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"Speed, physicality, trash talk," Mirotic named his biggest challenges in the NBA during SKWEEK's Best In Class podcast. "Oh, I hated trash talk. I couldn't get used to that for a long time. During the practice and in the game, there was so much trash talk that I was actually taking it personally."

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"Like my teammates were talking real trash, and after the practice, they were shaking hands, hugging me. I was like, 'What is this? We just fought at the practice, and now you're shaking hands with me? Come on,'" Mirotic recalled. "I had to get used to that. Also, short memory," he continued. "Here in Europe, you lose one game, OK; 2 games, it's already big drama; 3 games, there's a meeting, the president coming, and the media talking. "In the NBA, you lose one game, 'Don't worry.' 2nd game, 'We're good.' 3rd game you lose: 'A long season.' 4th game, 'OK, stick together, guys.' So it can be like this for 10 [consecutive] games.

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"Rajon Rondo started to go crazy in practices, talking so much in the film session," Mirotic remembered. "You saw Rajon Rondo always in front of a computer watching films, and he was like so confident that we're gonna actually beat Portland, and Portland was having an amazing season, and Damian Lillard was killing everybody, so we went to Portland, and actually somebody was knocking on my door. "It was like 2 or 3 a.m., and it was Rajon Rondo with the computer showing me, 'Tomorrow we have to do this. You have to cut this way or set the pick like this.' I was like, 'Rajon, we're playing tomorrow. It's 3 a.m.' He was, 'But this is very important; you sleep with this.' I felt like how serious this was, and we swept Portland 4-0. It was insane.

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Nikola Mirotic opened up about his international career with Spain, specifying his relationship with the country. “I never felt like a Spanish guy,” the 33-year-old power forward of EA7 Emporio Armani Milan in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague mentioned in a preview of an interview with SKWEEK to be released on Wednesday, “I am a Montenegrin and Serbian orthodox guy even though I played with Spain. But I did feel Spain as my second home. Because Spain was very good. Spain gave me that opportunity. I am always going to be thankful to Spain.”

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The trend began with Nikola Mirotic, who joined Madrid in 2008 at the age of 17. After establishing himself as one of Europe's top players, he left for the Chicago Bulls in 2014, triggering his €2.5 million buyout clause.

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Barcelona underwent significant restructuring last summer, resulting in the departure of two pivotal players, Nikola Mirotic and Cory Higgins. The Blaugrana club decided to unilaterally terminate their contracts to free up wages after failing to reach agreements with either player, a development now nearing completion according to Encestando, and confirmed by AS.

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Arel Ginsber: Top 10 EuroLeague salaries????: 1 Willy Hernangomez - 4.5M$ 2 Shane Larkin - 4M$ 3 Nikola Mirotic - 3.2M$ 4 Walter Tavares - 3M$ 5 Kostas Sloukas - 3M$ 6. Juancho Hernangomez - 2.5M$ 7 Scottie Wilbekin - 2.4M$ 8 Darius Thompson - 2.3M$ 9 Jabari Parker - 2M$ 10 Will Clybrun - 2M$

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FC Barcelona has already made the decision on Nikola Mirotic's replacement. It's the 28-year-old forward Jabari Parker, who will become the second-to-last signing for the Catalan team.

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Jabari Parker (28 years old), No. 2 in the 2014 draft, has passed a medical check-up today with FC Barcelona regarding his possible signing to become Nikola Mirotic's replacement at the power forward spot.

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The biggest story of the summer finally got its conclusion, as Nikola Mirotic decided to join Olimpia Milano. Italian champions teased the public with a post that obviously points that Mirotic will join them, and the official announcement is imminent.

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Former Partizan Belgrade coach and club legend Dusko Vujosevic has been engaged in an online dialogue with the Patriarch of Serbia Porfirije after he accused him of influencing Nikola Mirotic’s decision to back out of his agreement with the Serbian powerhouse. Following Mirotic’s announcement on social media that he won’t be signing with Partizan despite a deal in place between the two sides, it was reported that the EuroLeague superstar and former MVP took that route as a result of consulting Porfirije.

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“There’s a lot of talk,” Vujosevic said. “That the patriarch also called to use his [Mirotic’s] religiosity to choose the other club which the Patriarch also supports. If this is really true, and I doubt it, then he is not a patriarch, but a member of some lobby. Then those are tough games.”

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Donatas Urbonas: Nikola Mirotic announced he won't join Partizan due to insults and threats he received after news of his continuation in Belgrade’s club was published.

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