No Nikola Jokic, no problem. Even with its best player sitting out this summer, Serbia is going to play for gold at the Basketball World Cup.
Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 23 points and Serbia defeated Canada 95-86 in the World Cup semifinals on Friday. Ognjen Dobric and Nikola Milutinov each scored 16 for Serbia, the best-shooting team so far in the tournament — making 55 per cent of its shots coming into the day, then connecting on 62 per cent to end Canada’s hopes of gold.
Serbia (6-1) is in the World Cup final for the second time in the last three tournaments. It lost