{"id":437768,"date":"2023-06-12T23:17:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T03:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437768"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:37:10","slug":"nuggets-finished-the-job-vs-heat-and-grab-first-nba-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nuggets-finished-the-job-vs-heat-and-grab-first-nba-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets finished the job vs Heat and grab first NBA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> wrote history and clinched their first NBA title as they beat Miami Heat 94-89 in Game 5 to wrap up the series with 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>Denver were simply amazing in the play-offs, losing just four games in their way to the title &#8211; once from Minnesota Timberwolves and Miami Heat and twice from Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Timberwolves<\/p>\n<p>Once again Denver were pulled to victory by <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> who scored 28 points, adding 16 rebounds and 4 assists. Jimmy Butler was the best on the court for Heat with 21 points, but it was far from enough to top Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Heat was looking at the win at half-time after two very good quarters and Miami was leading 51:44 at the break.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THAT&#8217;S BALL GAME <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xjRoulwMyv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/xjRoulwMyv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1668454667263827969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nAfterwards, though, Jokic turned up the &#8220;heat&#8221; and helped his team turn the game around with amazing 3rd and 4th quarters (26:20, 24:18).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pif3R6BeCWs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets wrote history and clinched their first NBA title as they beat Miami Heat 94-89 in Game 5 to wrap up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":437774,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,17010],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17912],"acf":{"announce":"Jokic was 6 assists away from another triple-double ","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\/437768"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437768"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437768"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}