{"id":481552,"date":"2026-01-30T20:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=481552"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:18:38","slug":"denver-nuggets-nikola-jokic-plans-to-return-tonight-vs-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/denver-nuggets-nikola-jokic-plans-to-return-tonight-vs-clippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets\u2019 Nikola Jokic plans to return tonight vs Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1661\"><strong data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1432\">Nikola Jokic<\/strong> is planning to return tonight at home for the <strong data-start=\"1479\" data-end=\"1497\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong> against the <strong data-start=\"1510\" data-end=\"1534\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/strong>, according to ESPN sources. Jokic has been sidelined since Dec. 29 with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1663\" data-end=\"1902\">The timing would also line him up to play Sunday\u2019s showdown versus the <strong data-start=\"1734\" data-end=\"1759\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> in Denver and keep him eligible for end-of-season awards under the league\u2019s minimum-games requirement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1904\" data-end=\"2105\">Denver\u2019s return-to-full-strength push gets a major boost if Jokic is cleared as expected, with the homestand turning into a pivotal stretch for seeding momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out since Dec. 29 with a knee injury, Jokic is expected back at home and could also be available for Sunday vs OKC<\/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-481552","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\/481552","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=481552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481552\/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=481552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481552"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481552"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481552"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}