{"id":330155,"date":"2023-05-10T09:32:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T07:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=330155"},"modified":"2023-05-10T09:32:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T07:32:53","slug":"jokic-and-suns-owner-ishbia-share-warm-embrace-joke-about-fine-ahead-of-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jokic-and-suns-owner-ishbia-share-warm-embrace-joke-about-fine-ahead-of-game-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic and Suns Owner Ishbia Share Warm Embrace, Joke About Fine Ahead of Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Game 4 between the Denver Nuggets and Phoenix Suns, Nikola Jokic <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jokic-ishbia-altercation-heres-what-happened\/\">had a minor spat<\/a> with Suns owner Mat Ishbia, resulting in a technical foul and a $25,000 fine for the Nuggets&#8217; center.<\/p>\n<p>However, before Game 5, the pair shared a warm pre-game embrace, with Jokic jokingly hoping Ishbia would cover his fine.<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets coach Michael Malone commended both the NBA&#8217;s handling of the situation and Ishbia&#8217;s sportsmanship in not wanting any player suspensions. To prevent future incidents, the NBA has placed conduct reminders on front-row seats, including Ishbia&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I was hoping he was gonna pay my fine, but no.&#8221; \ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n<p>Jokic says it&#8217;s all love after seeing Mat Ishbia pre-game \ud83d\udcaf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Iqj50Ymf0Y\">pic.twitter.com\/Iqj50Ymf0Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1656167131715866630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 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>Before Game 5, the pair shared a warm pre-game embrace, with Jokic jokingly hoping Ishbia would cover his fine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":330154,"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":[5573],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-330155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-nikola-jokic-en","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/FvumKkXWIAM6NhP.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330155","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=330155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330155"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=330155"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=330155"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=330155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}