{"id":432745,"date":"2023-04-06T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432745"},"modified":"2023-04-06T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T15:24:43","slug":"denver-clinching-1st-seed-in-west-for-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/denver-clinching-1st-seed-in-west-for-1st-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver clinching 1st seed in West for 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets secured the 1<sup>st<\/sup> seed in the playoffs on Wednesday when Memphis Grizzlies were defeated 138-131 by New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your Denver Nuggets have clinched first place in the West for the first time in franchise history ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BeBhtd5m9X\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BeBhtd5m9X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1643815182127497216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nikola Joki\u0107 is the franchise&#8217;s big star and has a chance to win the MVP award for the third season in a row. The Serbian can also finish the regular season with a triple-double per game, as his average stats so far are almost 25 points per game, 12 rebounds, and 9.8 assists, with 3 more matches until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>His teammates Jamal Murray, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, and Michael Porter Jr. all shot over 39% from the 3-point line.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> seed Nuggets were eliminated by Golden State Warriors in the 1st round of the playoffs, but fans now have much higher expectations and even dream of the championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets secured the 1st seed in the playoffs on Wednesday when Memphis Grizzlies were defeated 138-131 by New Orleans Pelicans. Your Denver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432746,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,17837,16737],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17859,17858,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Nuggets clinched the 1st seed in the Western Conference for the first time in the franchise's existence.","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\/432745"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432745"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432745"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}