{"id":489208,"date":"2025-01-02T03:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T07:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489208"},"modified":"2025-01-02T03:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T07:52:19","slug":"jokics-144th-triple-double-leads-nuggets-to-139-120-win-over-hawks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jokics-144th-triple-double-leads-nuggets-to-139-120-win-over-hawks\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic&#8217;s 144th triple-double leads Nuggets to 139-120 win over Hawks"},"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\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> delivered another dominant performance with 23 points, 17 rebounds, and 15 assists, 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\/\"><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> to a 139-120 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night. Jokic came close to a triple-double in the first half, finishing just one assist shy, before securing his 144th career triple-double early in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joki\u0107&#8217;s triple-double for the Nuggets was so efficient, it was DIZZYING \ud83d\ude35\u200d\ud83d\udcab<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udccf 23 PTS<br \/>\n\ud83c\udccf 17 REB<br \/>\n\ud83c\udccf 15 AST<br \/>\n\ud83c\udccf IN 29 MINUTES<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the FIRST game of 20+p, 15+r, &amp; 15+a in under 30 MIN in NBA HISTORY! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Aw1KrpVFhp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Aw1KrpVFhp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1874680973788672228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jamal Murray contributed 21 points, and Russell Westbrook added 16 points and 11 assists as the Nuggets extended their winning streak to three consecutive games. Denver also showcased impeccable free-throw shooting, finishing a flawless 21 of 21 from the line, and recorded a season-high 44 assists in the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nikola Jokic over his last 8 games:<\/p>\n<p>23 PTS &#8211; 17 REB &#8211; 15 AST<br \/>\n36 PTS &#8211; 22 REB &#8211; 11 AST<br \/>\n37 PTS &#8211; 9 REB &#8211; 8 AST<br \/>\n27 PTS &#8211; 14 REB &#8211; 13 AST<br \/>\n25 PTS &#8211; 15 REB &#8211; 2 AST<br \/>\n32 PTS &#8211; 7 AST &#8211; 71% FG<br \/>\n27 PTS &#8211; 13 REB &#8211; 10 AST<br \/>\n34 PTS &#8211; 8 AST &#8211; 72% FG<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realapp_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@realapp_<\/a> ) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Ae3z8qolC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0Ae3z8qolC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDunkCentral\/status\/1874676487200338255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The win marked a season sweep over the Hawks, following a 141-111 victory in Atlanta on December 8, where Jokic had an explosive 48-point, 14-rebound outing.<\/p>\n<p>For the Hawks, Trae Young led the way with 30 points and nine assists, continuing his streak of games with at least five assists to 193 \u2014 the third-longest streak in NBA history, behind only John Stockton (336) and Isiah Thomas (209). De\u2019Andre Hunter added 20 points off the bench, but Atlanta&#8217;s four-game win streak came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Up next, the Hawks travel to Los Angeles to face the Lakers on Friday, while the Nuggets return home to host the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mAehoycZmvk?si=Kq4d7KSDlJ12amDF\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic delivered another dominant performance with 23 points, 17 rebounds, and 15 assists, leading the Denver Nuggets to a 139-120 victory over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":489209,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17176,16736,16737],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17947,17859,17858],"acf":{"announce":"Denver extended their winning streak to three games, finishing season sweep vs Atlanta ","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\/489208"}],"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=489208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489210,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489208\/revisions\/489210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489208"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489208"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}