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Jokic shoves Suns owner in Game 4
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Denver Nugetts' star was not happy that Matt Ishbia was holding the ball

Nikola Jokic scored a game-high 53 points in Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference playoffs against the Phoenix Suns, but it wasn’t enough for his Denver Nuggets, who lost to the Suns 124-129 and thus the result in the series was tied at 2-2.

At one point late in the second period of the game, Jokic noticed how new Phoenix owner Matt Ishbia was holding the ball and not letting it go, thus preventing a quicker restart of the game.


The Serb Intervened and roughly took her from his hands. Chicago Bulls’ Patrick Beverley wrote on Twitter: “Protect the players” in reference to the incident and objects being thrown from the crowd at Jokic.