However, this is a setback: forward Nikola Jovic — who plays for the Miami Heat — will miss the Paris Games due to a fracture in an ankle joint, Meridian Sport reports.

Any way you cut it, Miami Heat forward Nikola Jovic has an injury, and for a player who is critical to the next step this team takes, that’s not good news. But reports have varied, pretty wildly, on just how severe Jovic’s ankle problem is,

While the Heat has not yet ruled out the possibility of clearing Jovic ahead of the Olympics, according to a league source, Serbia’s national federation will make the formal decision on his status for the competition even if he’s cleared by the Heat ...