{"id":472534,"date":"2025-12-02T21:47:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=472534"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:47:21","slug":"nikola-jokic-cade-cunningham-named-nba-players-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nikola-jokic-cade-cunningham-named-nba-players-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic, Cade Cunningham named NBA Players of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic and Cade Cunningham are the first to win the NBA Player of the Month award for the 2025\/26 season, for the Western and Eastern Conferences respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets center is averaging 28.9 points, 12.4 rebounds, and 10.9 assists, while the star of the surprising Pistons is producing 28.8 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 9.4 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the list of players considered for the award in the two Conferences:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Western<\/strong>: Deni Avdija (POR), Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Austin Reaves (LAL), Anthony Edwards (MIN), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (OKC), James Harden (LAC) e Alperen Sengun (HOU)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eastern<\/strong>: Scottie Barnes (TOR), Jaylen Brown (BOS), Jalen Brunson e Karl-Anthony Towns (NYK), Josh Giddey (CHI), Jalen Johnson (ATL), Tyrese Maxey (PHI), Donovan Mitchell (CLE), Norman Powell (MIA) e Franz Wagner (ORL)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Denver Nuggets center Nikola Joki\u0107 and Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham have been named the Kia NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Month, respectively, for games played in October\/November. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3vPczBBYGu\">pic.twitter.com\/3vPczBBYGu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/1995953645305897066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 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>Cunningham is leading the Pistons atop the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":472533,"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-472534","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\/2025\/12\/G7MLEXdXkAAo4Ba.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472534","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=472534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472534"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=472534"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=472534"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=472534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}