{"id":435120,"date":"2023-05-08T23:17:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T03:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435120"},"modified":"2023-05-08T23:07:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T03:07:25","slug":"jokic-can-play-in-game-5-after-a-fine-not-a-suspension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jokic-can-play-in-game-5-after-a-fine-not-a-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic can play in Game 5 after a fine, not a suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic will have to pay a 25\u00a0000 dollar fine for his altercation with Phoenix Suns CEO Mat Ishbia.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets will not be suspended and can play in Game 5 on Tuesday at home, which can be crucial after the series is even 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Sun&#8217;s owner also said he doesn&#8217;t want Nikola to be suspended on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mat Ishbia with one of the greatest flops you\u2019ll see after Jokic shoved him. Legend. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rhOxNt0mAJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rhOxNt0mAJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barstoolsports\/status\/1655377114617528320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Great victory for the Phoenix in Game 4 in a phenomenal series so far!&#8221; the owner shared on Twitter. &#8220;That must be and is the only story. Suspending or fining Jokic over last night&#8217;s altercation is not proper. I have a lot of respect for Nikola and don&#8217;t want something like that to happen. Delighted for the next match! Go, Phoenix!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic will have to pay a 25\u00a0000 dollar fine for his altercation with Phoenix Suns CEO Mat Ishbia. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":435121,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17005],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[19213,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Nikola had 'improper contact' with Phoenix's owner in Game 4.","video":["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\/435120"}],"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=435120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435120"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435120"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}