{"id":332669,"date":"2023-05-28T21:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T19:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=332669"},"modified":"2023-05-28T21:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T19:09:44","slug":"nikola-jokic-is-the-third-player-to-enter-nba-finals-averaging-a-triple-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nikola-jokic-is-the-third-player-to-enter-nba-finals-averaging-a-triple-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic is the third player to enter NBA Finals averaging a triple-double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-malone-coach-jokic-did-a-great-job-tonight\/\">Nuggets<\/a> center Nikola Jokic will soon become the third player in NBA playoff history to reach the Finals while averaging a triple-double.<\/p>\n<p>Only two true basketball legends like Wilt Chamberlain and Magic Johnson have managed the feat before the Serbian star<\/p>\n<p>Jokic in 15 postseason games has put together averages of 29.9 points, 13.3 rebounds and 10.3 assists, shooting 53 % from the field, 47% (!!!) from three and 78% from the Foul line.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA Finals kicking off Thursday, June 1, Jokic and the Nuggets will face the winner of Game 7 between the Celtics and Heat.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jokic &amp; Murray&#039;s BEST 2-Man Game Moments This Postseason!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kvDpzytUrRI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nuggets center Nikola Joki\u0107 is averaging 29.9 points, 13.3 rebounds and 10.3 assists in the 2023 NBA Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>He is the third player to enter the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBAFinals<\/a> averaging a triple-double in a single postseason, joining Wilt Chamberlain (1967) and Magic Johnson (1982). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7VbHXwTl0U\">pic.twitter.com\/7VbHXwTl0U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/1662864859866845186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 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>The NBA Finals kicking off Thursday, June 1, Jokic and the Nuggets will face the winner of Game 7 between the Celtics and Heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":332668,"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":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-332669","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\/2023\/05\/FxOuZpmXwAAoVuL.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332669","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332669"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=332669"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=332669"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=332669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}