{"id":483088,"date":"2024-05-15T02:29:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T06:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483088"},"modified":"2024-05-15T02:29:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T06:29:09","slug":"jokic-shows-mvp-credentials-with-40-points-leads-nuggets-over-wolves","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jokic-shows-mvp-credentials-with-40-points-leads-nuggets-over-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic shows MVP credentials with 40 points, leads Nuggets over 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\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> celebrated his third MVP trophy ceremony in style by leading the <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> to a 112-97 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday in Game 5 of their Western Conference semifinal series. Jokic was on fire, scoring 40 points and dishing out 13 assists, ensuring Denver took a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Gordon contributed significantly with 18 points and 10 rebounds, while Jamal Murray and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope each added 16 points for the Nuggets, who rebounded after losing the first two games at home. The team now has a chance to clinch the series in Game 6, which will take place on Thursday night in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ONE, TWO, THREE IN A ROW <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e5kPciwBzs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/e5kPciwBzs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1790609034027962544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Minnesota&#8217;s All-Star guard <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/anthony-edwards\/\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> had a tough night, shooting just 5-for-15 from the field and finishing with 18 points and nine assists. Karl-Anthony Towns led the Timberwolves with 23 points, and Rudy Gobert added a double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves were without point guard Mike Conley, who sat out due to right Achilles soreness, and Nickeil Alexander-Walker, who stepped into the starting lineup, scored 14 points.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BUVMqMsgVqU?si=lAxkzRrJWGLBsKSs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic celebrated his third MVP trophy ceremony in style by leading the Denver Nuggets to a 112-97 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":483089,"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 took a 3-2 series lead after 112-97 victory","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\/483088"}],"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=483088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483091,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483088\/revisions\/483091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483088"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483088"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}