{"id":474935,"date":"2025-12-19T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=474935"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:49:10","slug":"denver-nuggets-jokic-passes-kareem-as-all-time-assists-leader-among-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/denver-nuggets-jokic-passes-kareem-as-all-time-assists-leader-among-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets&#8217; Jokic passes Kareem as all-time assists leader among centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1622\" data-end=\"1915\"><strong data-start=\"1636\" data-end=\"1652\">Nikola Jokic<\/strong> posted <strong data-start=\"1660\" data-end=\"1701\">23 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds<\/strong> as the <strong data-start=\"1709\" data-end=\"1720\">Nuggets<\/strong> beat the <strong data-start=\"1730\" data-end=\"1739\">Magic<\/strong> 126-115, moving past <strong data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"1784\">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/strong> for the most <strong data-start=\"1798\" data-end=\"1828\">career assists by a center<\/strong>. The milestone came in the first half on a kick-out that led to a Jalen Pickett three.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1917\" data-end=\"2207\">Denver flipped the game in the second quarter behind <strong data-start=\"1970\" data-end=\"1986\">Jamal Murray<\/strong>, who scored 20 of his <strong data-start=\"2009\" data-end=\"2022\">32 points<\/strong> in the period and sparked a huge run that turned a 14-point deficit into a halftime lead. Murray is having a career-best scoring year at <strong data-start=\"2160\" data-end=\"2172\">25.2 ppg<\/strong>, and he\u2019s at <strong data-start=\"2186\" data-end=\"2194\">28.1<\/strong> in December.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2209\" data-end=\"2491\">Orlando got a triple-double from <strong data-start=\"2242\" data-end=\"2260\">Paolo Banchero<\/strong> (<strong data-start=\"2262\" data-end=\"2300\">26 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists<\/strong>) and <strong data-start=\"2306\" data-end=\"2312\">26<\/strong> from <strong data-start=\"2318\" data-end=\"2340\">Wendell Carter Jr.<\/strong>, but injuries thinned the rotation. A late push cut it to six, before <strong data-start=\"2411\" data-end=\"2426\">Cam Johnson<\/strong> (<strong data-start=\"2428\" data-end=\"2454\">14 points, 11 rebounds<\/strong>) knocked down key threes to seal it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic becomes the NBA\u2019s career assists leader among centers while posting another triple-double<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":386897,"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-474935","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\/2024\/05\/Denver-Nuggets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474935","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=474935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474935"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=474935"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=474935"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=474935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}