{"id":480218,"date":"2024-03-13T22:26:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T02:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480218"},"modified":"2024-03-13T22:26:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T02:26:51","slug":"nuggets-defeat-heat-100-88-in-an-nba-finals-rematch","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nuggets-defeat-heat-100-88-in-an-nba-finals-rematch\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets defeat Heat 100-88 in an NBA Finals rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Porter Jr. notched 25 points, Aaron Gordon added 16, and the reigning NBA champ took sole possession of 1st place in the West with a 100-88 victory against the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\">Miami Heat<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> in a finals rematch at Kaseya Center.<\/p>\n<p>Jamal Murray notched 14 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> had 12 points, 14 boards, and 6 assists for Denver (46-20), who moved a half-match ahead of Thunder and a full match-up on Timberwolves in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The road win streak continues ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JWoBY1cnkM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JWoBY1cnkM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1768093026679734520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nuggets are the league\u2019s best 10-1 since the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fellas got it done \u2611\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>MPJ: 25 PTS \/ 7 REB \/ 5-3PM<br \/>AG: 16 PTS \/ 8 REB \/ 4 AST<br \/>Mal: 14 PTS \/ 2 REB \/ 5 AST<br \/>Jok: 12 PTS \/ 14 REB \/ 6 AST <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CFlSK6oQpR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CFlSK6oQpR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1768100775786365397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bam Adebayo notched 17 points and had 13 boards for the Heat. Jimmy Butler finished with 15 points, Terry Rozier notched 14 and Duncan Robinson 11 for Miami who are now 2 and a half matches behind Magic in the Southeast Division standings.<\/p>\n<p>Miami has lost 4 consecutive matches and remains 8<sup>th<\/sup> in the East, playing again without Tyler Herro and Kevin Love.<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets are 12-1 in its last 13 matches vs. Miami, including last campaign\u2019s league Finals, and has triumphed in 7 straight matches in Florida against the Heat.<\/p>\n<p>Denver will play against the Spurs in San Antonio on Friday, while Miami will face the Pistons in Detroit on the same day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CCGQXjBkQ6I?si=KUCK0tZuyCmE0Dm7\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Porter Jr. notched 25 points, Aaron Gordon added 16, and the reigning NBA champ took sole possession of 1st place in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480219,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,17010,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17912,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Denver moved atop in the Western Conference.","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\/480218"}],"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=480218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480221,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480218\/revisions\/480221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480218"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480218"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}