{"id":334541,"date":"2023-06-13T10:35:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=334541"},"modified":"2023-06-13T10:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:35:19","slug":"nikola-jokic-earns-2023-bill-russell-nba-finals-most-valuable-player-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nikola-jokic-earns-2023-bill-russell-nba-finals-most-valuable-player-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic earns 2023 Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic has earned his 1st Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award, elevating the Nuggets to their 1st NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic averaged 30.2 points, 14.0 rebounds and 7.2 assists in the five-game series, which the Nuggets sealed with Monday\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/mia-vs-den-0042200405\">94-89 victory<\/a>\u00a0in front of their home fans at Denver\u2019s Ball Arena.<\/p>\n<p>His best statistical showing was likely the 32-point, 21-rebound, 10-assist, 2-block showing in Game 3 \u2013 not only the 1st 30-20-10 triple-double in Finals history, but also a crucial performance as the Nuggets rebounded from their only loss in the series (in which Jokic scored 41 points).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joki\u0107 received all 11 votes from a media panel covering the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBAFinals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets center averaged 30.2 points, 14.0 rebounds and 7.2 assists in the Finals series.<\/p>\n<p>The voting panel \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hFH9skxUgD\">https:\/\/t.co\/hFH9skxUgD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B91D03Ms0y\">pic.twitter.com\/B91D03Ms0y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/1668457565259460609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 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>Nikola Jokic has earned his 1st Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award, elevating the Nuggets to their 1st NBA championship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":334526,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-334541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/06\/FyeQzVoagAA8kY0.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334541","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=334541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334541"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=334541"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=334541"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=334541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}