{"id":482937,"date":"2024-05-11T02:11:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T06:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482937"},"modified":"2024-05-11T02:11:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T06:11:56","slug":"jokic-takes-the-lead-with-24-points-nuggets-close-the-gap-to-wolves","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jokic-takes-the-lead-with-24-points-nuggets-close-the-gap-to-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic takes the lead with 24 points, Nuggets close the gap to Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> led the charge for the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a><\/a> with an impressive stat line of 24 points, 14 rebounds, and nine assists, guiding his team to a commanding 117-90 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals series held in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing to Denver&#8217;s triumph, Jamal Murray tallied 24 points on efficient 11-for-21 shooting, while Michael Porter Jr. added 21 points to the scoreboard. Aaron Gordon and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope also made significant contributions with 13 and 12 points, respectively.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Nuggets BOUNCE BACK by defeating the Timberwolves 117-90!<\/p>\n<p>Joki\u0107 drops 24 PTS, 14 REB, 9 AST, 3 STL &amp; 3 BLK! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xJzeADUcVl\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/xJzeADUcVl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Basketball Forever (@bballforever_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bballforever_\/status\/1789148321606771073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/anthony-edwards\/\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> led the scoring for the Timberwolves with 19 points, followed by Karl-Anthony Towns with 14 points. Mike Conley and Jaden McDaniels each contributed 10 points to the effort.<\/p>\n<p>With this win, the Nuggets narrowed the series deficit to 2-1, providing them with an opportunity to level the series in Game 4, scheduled to take place in Minneapolis on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/995F4Ic9P0Y?si=0a5TO9IbWVRiz6Et\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic led the charge for the Denver Nuggets with an impressive stat line of 24 points, 14 rebounds, and nine assists, guiding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":482938,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,17159,16737],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,18338,17858],"acf":{"announce":"Denver won 117-90 in Minneapolis and is now just one game down in the series ","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\/482937"}],"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=482937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482940,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482937\/revisions\/482940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482937"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482937"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}