Denver Nuggets’ retro collection drops iconic sweatshirt from Jokic’s childhood
Hype beasts, get your wallets ready.
This week, the Denver Nuggets dropped a re-release of vintage gear, which included an iconic piece of Nuggets merchandise from Nikola Jokic’s childhood.
In the Nuggets’ new Retro Collection, made by Mitchell and Ness as part of their “Hardwood Classics” line, one of the pieces looks to be a re-issue of a sweatshirt Jokic wore as a five-year-old child back in 2000, as originally revealed by his agent, Miško Ražnatović.
“Chances of a kid from a small Serbian town having a sweatshirt from a lesser-known American team back in 2000 were minimal … Chances of anyone knowing about the Nuggets in a small Serbian town were next to nothing,” Ražnatović wrote on Instagram. “But chances of that same kid growing up to play basketball and achieve his career high, win two MVP titles and sign a historic agreement with the same club whose sweatshirt he wore at age five, were zero. It is true that winners create their own fate, make the impossible possible and write the pages of history through exceptional dedication, hard work, sacrifice, confidence and willingness to do more than others.”
Ražnatović posted the old photo in July of 2022, just under a year before the Nuggets won their first NBA Championship, led by Jokic.
Members of the team were shown wearing the re-issued sweatshirts ahead of the Nuggets game against the Washington Wizards on Feb 22.
The re-release of the sweatshirt is called “Nuggets Vintage Mountain Logo Crew” and is available for purchase on the Altitude Authentics website for a listed price of $80. However, at the time of writing, every size except for 3XL was sold out on the website.

A representative for Altitude Authentics could not be reached for comment in regard to whether the item was still in stock at brick and mortar locations.





