Hear a Bosnian Band's Ode to Blazers Center Jusuf Nurkic

"Nurk is on fire/Nurk is trailblazing."

By Matthew Singer

In Portland, Nurkic Fever has yet to break. In fact, it's spreading.

On Tuesday, the Bosnian Beast Beef Lord stomped on his former team, the Denver Nuggets, putting up a career-high in points and helping the Blazers overtake the eighth spot in the Western Conference playoff seeding, then spat some Ric Flair-level shit talk. He followed that up last night by dropping 19 points and grabbing 11 rebounds against the third-seeded Houston Rockets and giving Portland the second-longest active win streak in the NBA.

Related: "Jusuf Nurkic Is a Big, Bad Man. That's Good News for the Portland Trail Blazers."

And now, he's got his own theme song.

Yesterday, the multi-hyphenate Bosnian band Dubioza Kolektiv uploaded an ode to their new national hero. It's only a minute long, but it gets in all the pertinent details: He's from Bosnia, he plays for the Trail Blazers, he can assist and rebound as well as score, he occasionally dunks. It's no "#PORZINGIS," the trap-rap tribute to Latvian unicorn Kristaps Porzingis, but it's got a certain Balkan charm.

For the full effect, listen to it on repeat while reading this hilarious story about Nurkic stealing a local dude's girlfriend.

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