{"id":439331,"date":"2025-04-25T08:17:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=439331"},"modified":"2025-04-25T08:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:17:42","slug":"jokic-triple-double-not-enough-as-nuggets-fall-hard-in-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jokic-triple-double-not-enough-as-nuggets-fall-hard-in-game-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic triple-double not enough as Nuggets fall hard in Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1532\"><strong data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1298\">Nikola Jokic recorded his 20th career playoff triple-double<\/strong> \u2014 23 points, 13 rebounds, 13 assists \u2014 but it wasn\u2019t enough to prevent a disastrous loss for Denver in Game 3. The Nuggets were blown out by the Clippers, who took control early and never looked back, taking a 2-1 lead in the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1534\" data-end=\"1859\">Jokic was his usual brilliant self on the stat sheet, orchestrating the offense and battling inside. However, with <strong data-start=\"1649\" data-end=\"1692\">Denver shooting just 7-of-26 from three<\/strong> and committing <strong data-start=\"1708\" data-end=\"1724\">16 turnovers<\/strong>, his efforts were largely wasted. Only Jamal Murray joined him in double figures, while the rest of the team failed to make an impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1861\" data-end=\"2091\">Despite Jokic\u2019s consistent excellence, the Nuggets looked overwhelmed, especially on defense. As Game 4 approaches Sunday night in Inglewood, the defending champions now face a must-win situation to avoid falling into a deep hole.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jokic was heated on bench during Nuggets 34-point loss \ud83d\ude33\ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XXG3P79bzA\">pic.twitter.com\/XXG3P79bzA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 House of Highlights (@HoHighlights) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoHighlights\/status\/1915632352727797765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2025<\/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 recorded his 20th career playoff triple-double \u2014 23 points, 13 rebounds, 13 assists \u2014 but it wasn\u2019t enough to prevent a disastrous loss for Denver in Game 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":439330,"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-439331","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\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-25-alle-08.15.38.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439331","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=439331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439331"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=439331"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=439331"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=439331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}