{"id":40776,"date":"2025-05-06T14:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/nba-playoffs-jokic-scores-42-points-as-nuggets-stun-no-1-seed-thunder-at-death\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:38:43","slug":"nba-playoffs-jokic-scores-42-points-as-nuggets-stun-no-1-seed-thunder-at-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/nba-playoffs-jokic-scores-42-points-as-nuggets-stun-no-1-seed-thunder-at-death\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoffs: Joki\u0107 scores 42 points as Nuggets stun No 1 seed Thunder at death"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Aaron Gordon hits three-pointer in closing seconds<\/li>\n<li>Denver win series opener 121-119 after late comeback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nikola Joki\u0107 had 42 points and 22 rebounds, and Aaron Gordon hit a three-pointer in the closing seconds to give the Denver Nuggets a stunning 121-119 comeback win over Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p> The top-seeds, out of timeouts, missed a desperation heave as time expired in Game 1 of their Western Conference semi-final series.<\/p>\n<p>Denver\u2019s Russell Westbrook, who started his career with the Thunder, assisted on Gordon\u2019s game-winner. It was his first playoff game in Oklahoma City as an opposing player.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/06\/nba-playoffs-jokic-scores-42-points-as-nuggets-stun-no-1-seed-thunder-at-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Gordon hits three-pointer in closing seconds Denver win series opener 121-119 after late comeback Nikola Joki\u0107 had 42 points and 22 rebounds, and Aaron Gordon hit a three-pointer in the closing seconds to give the Denver Nuggets a stunning 121-119 comeback win over Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night. The top-seeds, out of timeouts, &#8230; <a title=\"NBA playoffs: Joki\u0107 scores 42 points as Nuggets stun No 1 seed Thunder at death\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/nba-playoffs-jokic-scores-42-points-as-nuggets-stun-no-1-seed-thunder-at-death\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA playoffs: Joki\u0107 scores 42 points as Nuggets stun No 1 seed Thunder at death\">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-40776","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\/40776","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=40776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}