{"id":476046,"date":"2024-01-15T04:27:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T08:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476046"},"modified":"2024-01-15T04:27:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T08:27:34","slug":"jokic-one-assist-away-from-triple-double-in-117-109-win-vs-pacers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jokic-one-assist-away-from-triple-double-in-117-109-win-vs-pacers\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic one assist away from triple-double in 117-109 win vs Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/a> fell just one assist short of securing his 13th triple-double of the season, contributing 25 points, 12 rebounds, and nine assists. The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> claimed a 117-109 victory, with Michael Porter Jr. and Jamal Murray also delivering 25 points each.<\/p>\n<p>The team displayed an impressive season-high field goal percentage of 64.8%, as all five starters reached double figures. Aaron Gordon added 20 points and 10 rebounds, contributing to the Nuggets&#8217; strong performance at home with a 17-4 record.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic showcased remarkable accuracy, making 12 of his 13 field-goal attempts and maintaining an impressive 81% shooting rate (85 of 105) over his last nine games. Despite securing the win, the reigning NBA champions faced challenges, committing a season-worst 21 turnovers and conceding 14 offensive rebounds to the Pacers, resulting in 20 second-chance points for the opposition.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HYrhl_sYKsw?si=fGMp4I2ErLayIMD5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday&#8217;s game against the Indiana Pacers, Nikola Jokic fell just one assist short of securing his 13th triple-double of the season, contributing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":476043,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,16971,16737],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,18386,17858],"acf":{"announce":"The Nuggets leading man was once again unstoppable ","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\/476046"}],"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=476046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476048,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476046\/revisions\/476048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476046"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476046"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}