{"id":395864,"date":"2023-02-01T05:57:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T10:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395864"},"modified":"2023-02-03T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T15:24:07","slug":"nuggets-down-pelicans-16th-triple-double-for-jokic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nuggets-down-pelicans-16th-triple-double-for-jokic\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets down Pelicans, 16th triple-double for Jokic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Jamal Murray scored 32 points and Nikola Jokic got his NBA-leading 16th triple-double of the season as the Western Conference-leading Denver Nuggets held off the reeling New Orleans Pelicans 122-113 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Home Ws&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N7aLuWqM7w\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/N7aLuWqM7w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1620656336504782848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy as long as we are winning games and the players are happy around me,\u201d Jokic said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Murray made a season-high seven 3-pointers to give him 771 for his career and move him past J.R. Smith for second place on the franchise list. He\u2019s just 33 away from matching Will Barton for the top spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">\u201cI\u2019ll get that in three games,\u201d cracked Murray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to keep our heads down and keep working,\u201d Nuggets coach Willie Green said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to win in the NBA. We\u2019re seeing that. There was some beauty in what I saw tonight. &#8230; We\u2019re right there, but we have to sustain it for 48 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CJ McCollum and Herbert Jones both scored 21 points for the Pelicans, who have dropped nine straight games. They finished 3-13 in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Pelicans visit Dallas on Thursday to finish a three-game trip while the Nuggets host Golden State on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Murray scored 32 points and Nikola Jokic got his NBA-leading 16th triple-double of the season as the Western Conference-leading Denver Nuggets held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395865,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,17204,16737],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Denver host Golden State on Thursday night.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395864"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395864"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}