{"id":72663,"date":"2026-04-26T07:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/nikola-jokic-boils-over-after-mcdanielss-mocking-layup-in-nuggets-loss-to-timberwolves\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:56:01","slug":"nikola-jokic-boils-over-after-mcdanielss-mocking-layup-in-nuggets-loss-to-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/nikola-jokic-boils-over-after-mcdanielss-mocking-layup-in-nuggets-loss-to-timberwolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Joki\u0107 boils over after McDaniels\u2019s mocking layup in Nuggets\u2019 loss to Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>McDaniels makes layup with victory all but guaranteed<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Timberwolves lead playoff series 3-1 after win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Minnesota lose Edwards and DiVincenzo to injury<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nikola Joki\u0107 and Julius Randle were ejected after Jaden McDaniels made a meaningless \u2013 and provocative \u2013 layup at the end of the Minnesota Timberwolves\u2019 playoff victory over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>With Minnesota already all but guaranteed victory in a game that ended 112-96, McDaniels chose to make the layup with 2.1 seconds left rather than run out the clock, as is customary. That led to Joki\u0107 jogging down from half-court to confront McDaniels, and a shoving match ensued as other players became involved.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/26\/nikol-jokic-boils-over-after-mcdanielss-mocking-layup-in-nuggets-loss-to-timberwolves\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDaniels makes layup with victory all but guaranteed Timberwolves lead playoff series 3-1 after win Minnesota lose Edwards and DiVincenzo to injury Nikola Joki\u0107 and Julius Randle were ejected after Jaden McDaniels made a meaningless \u2013 and provocative \u2013 layup at the end of the Minnesota Timberwolves\u2019 playoff victory over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday &#8230; <a title=\"Nikola Joki\u0107 boils over after McDaniels\u2019s mocking layup in Nuggets\u2019 loss to Timberwolves\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/nikola-jokic-boils-over-after-mcdanielss-mocking-layup-in-nuggets-loss-to-timberwolves\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nikola Joki\u0107 boils over after McDaniels\u2019s mocking layup in Nuggets\u2019 loss to Timberwolves\">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-72663","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\/72663","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=72663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}