{"id":435369,"date":"2023-05-12T01:49:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T05:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435369"},"modified":"2023-05-12T01:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T05:50:08","slug":"nuggets-trash-suns-125-100-and-clinch-the-west-semifinals-series","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nuggets-trash-suns-125-100-and-clinch-the-west-semifinals-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets trash Suns 125-100 and clinch the West Semifinals series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic had a triple-double as he notched 32 points, and Jamal Murray scored 26 points as the Denver Nuggets clinched the Western Conference finals for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since 2020 as they won against the Phoenix Suns 125-100 in Game 6 at Footprint Center in Phoenix, AZ.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Two down.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BringItIn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BringItIn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y27TpFxQsx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/y27TpFxQsx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1656881961309437952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets&#8217; triumph comes 2 years after the franchise was destroyed in a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round series sweep by the Phoenix. However, now the Phoenix was trashed at home to finish their season for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell-Pope notched 21 points. The Serbian superstar netted 13 of 18 from open play, as he also had 12 assists and 10 boards.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For the fifth time in franchise history, the Denver Nuggets are going to the Western Conference Finals. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LanZ5EFBeK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LanZ5EFBeK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1656881312756580354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cameron Payne finished with 31 points for the Suns, scoring 7 of 8 shots from the 3-point line. Kevin Durant notched 23. Deandre Ayton and Chris Paul were unavailable for the clash because of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Booker scored only 12 points tonight.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cXEavPYK2vw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic had a triple-double as he notched 32 points, and Jamal Murray scored 26 points as the Denver Nuggets clinched the Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":435370,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,17837,17005],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Denver advanced to the Western Conference finals.","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\/435369"}],"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=435369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435369"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435369"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}