{"id":495071,"date":"2026-05-01T11:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495071"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:48:50","slug":"nikola-jokic-on-future-i-still-want-to-be-a-nugget-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nikola-jokic-on-future-i-still-want-to-be-a-nugget-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic on future: \u201cI still want to be a Nugget forever\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1295\" data-end=\"1523\"><strong data-start=\"1295\" data-end=\"1311\">Nikola Jokic<\/strong> addressed the future of the <strong data-start=\"1340\" data-end=\"1358\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong> after their surprising first-round playoff exit against the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Serbian star made his position clear: \u201cI still want to be a Nugget forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1525\" data-end=\"1747\">Jokic will be extension eligible this summer, but the mood in Denver is far from bright. The Nuggets won 54 regular-season games but lost the series 4-2. \u201cWe just lost in the first round. I think we are far away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1749\" data-end=\"1983\">The center also accepted responsibility for his performance: \u201cI needed to play better. I must play better.\u201d Asked about possible changes, Jokic added: \u201cThat\u2019s not my decision. Definitely, if we were in Serbia, we would all get fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1985\" data-end=\"2103\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"1985\" data-end=\"1996\">Source:<\/strong> <em data-start=\"1997\" data-end=\"2003\">ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Denver\u2019s first-round exit, Nikola Jokic reaffirmed his commitment to the Nuggets but admitted they are \u201cfar\u201d from title contention<\/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":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-495071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"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\/495071","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=495071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495071\/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=495071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495071"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495071"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495071"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}