{"id":38587,"date":"2025-04-12T06:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T06:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/nikola-jokic-becomes-third-ever-nba-player-to-average-triple-double-for-year\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T06:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T06:13:12","slug":"nikola-jokic-becomes-third-ever-nba-player-to-average-triple-double-for-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/nikola-jokic-becomes-third-ever-nba-player-to-average-triple-double-for-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Joki\u0107 becomes third ever NBA player to average triple-double for year"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Nuggets star wraps up triple-double average for season<\/li>\n<li>Joki\u0107 joins Westbrook and Robertson in exclusive club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nikola Joki\u0107 will average a triple-double for the season, making the Denver star the third player in NBA history to pull off such a feat.<\/p>\n<p>It became statistically certain Friday night when Joki\u0107 got his fourth assist of Denver\u2019s game against the Memphis Grizzlies. That assist was his 700th of the season \u2013 so, even if he doesn\u2019t get another before Sunday\u2019s end of the regular season, which would be his 70th game, he is assured of averaging no worse than 10.0 assists.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/11\/nikola-jokic-triple-double-season-denver-nuggets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuggets star wraps up triple-double average for season Joki\u0107 joins Westbrook and Robertson in exclusive club Nikola Joki\u0107 will average a triple-double for the season, making the Denver star the third player in NBA history to pull off such a feat. It became statistically certain Friday night when Joki\u0107 got his fourth assist of Denver\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Nikola Joki\u0107 becomes third ever NBA player to average triple-double for year\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/nikola-jokic-becomes-third-ever-nba-player-to-average-triple-double-for-year\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nikola Joki\u0107 becomes third ever NBA player to average triple-double for year\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}