{"id":329867,"date":"2023-05-08T08:24:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T06:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=329867"},"modified":"2023-05-08T08:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T06:29:26","slug":"jokic-ishbia-altercation-heres-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jokic-ishbia-altercation-heres-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic-Ishbia Altercation: Here&#8217;s What Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Game 4 between the Phoenix Suns and Denver Nuggets, an unusual altercation occurred between Suns owner Mat Ishbia and Nuggets star Nikola Jokic. The Serbian player was penalized with a technical foul for unsportsmanlike conduct following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the second period, Suns guard Josh Okogie collided with the stands while trying to save a ball that was going out of bounds. Okogie ended up among a group of fans on the baseline, including Ishbia, who grabbed the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic, attempting to quickly recover the ball to start the Nuggets&#8217; offensive play, tried to snatch it from Ishbia&#8217;s hands. The ball flew into the crowd, and Ishbia was knocked off balance by Jokic&#8217;s elbow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ball went into the corner, and one of the fans was holding it,&#8221; referee Tony Brothers explained to a reporter. &#8220;Jokic came to get the ball, snatched it from the fan, and then deliberately pushed him, causing him to fall. For this reason, he was penalized with a technical foul for unsportsmanlike conduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a few minutes of confusion, during which the referees tried to clarify the situation, Jokic was penalized with a technical foul.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned by the Associated Press during halftime, Ishbia stated that he was &#8220;fine&#8221; and more concerned about the outcome of the game than the altercation. In the second half, he returned to his usual seat in the stands.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Phoenix Suns Owner Mat Ishbia getting into it with Jokic and selling the chicken wing. Absolute cinema.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pU9Em4dJRC\">https:\/\/t.co\/pU9Em4dJRC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AOZY5ZZPnv\">pic.twitter.com\/AOZY5ZZPnv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldWideWob\/status\/1655377461864206336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mat Ishbia with one of the greatest flops you\u2019ll see after Jokic shoved him. Legend. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rhOxNt0mAJ\">pic.twitter.com\/rhOxNt0mAJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barstoolsports\/status\/1655377114617528320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Game 4 between the Phoenix Suns and Denver Nuggets, an unusual altercation occurred between Suns owner Mat Ishbia and Nuggets star Nikola Jokic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":329866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[2861],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-329867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-nikola-jokic","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/Schermata-2023-05-08-alle-08.13.32.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329867","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329867"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=329867"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=329867"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=329867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}