{"id":219954,"date":"2021-06-14T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=219954"},"modified":"2021-06-14T09:09:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:09:30","slug":"mvp-nikola-jokic-ends-season-with-ejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mvp-nikola-jokic-ends-season-with-ejection\/","title":{"rendered":"MVP Nikola Jokic ends season with ejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic ended his season with an ejection in Game 4 of the series against the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UzHE778xxAw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/31627687\/denver-nuggets-nikola-jokic-ejected-flagrant-2-foul-hard-swipe-phoenix-suns-cameron-payne\">Per ESPN<\/a>, &#8220;I wanted to change the rhythm of the game, I wanted to give us some energy, maybe change the whistle a little bit, so I wanted to make a hard foul,&#8221; Jokic said. &#8220;Did I hit him, did I not hit him? We don&#8217;t know. So I say sorry if I did because I did not want to injure him or hit him in the head on purpose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following a lengthy review, Jokic was handed the flagrant 2 and ejected from Game 4 of Denver&#8217;s Western Conference semifinal series with 3:52 remaining in the third quarter and the Nuggets trailing the Suns by eight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought honestly they would not eject me,&#8221; Jokic said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just didn&#8217;t feel like it warranted a flagrant 2 ejection because he&#8217;s making a play on the ball,&#8221; Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. &#8220;There&#8217;s marginal contact to Cameron Payne&#8217;s nose I believe. So I was shocked. I&#8217;m still a little bit shocked that they called a flagrant 2 and ejected the MVP on such a play.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I thought honestly they would not eject me,&#8221; Jokic said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":219953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-219954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/nikola-jokic-foul.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219954"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=219954"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=219954"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=219954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}