{"id":72909,"date":"2026-05-01T07:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/if-we-were-in-serbia-we-would-all-be-fired-jokics-nuggets-crash-out-in-first-round-of-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:55:20","slug":"if-we-were-in-serbia-we-would-all-be-fired-jokics-nuggets-crash-out-in-first-round-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/if-we-were-in-serbia-we-would-all-be-fired-jokics-nuggets-crash-out-in-first-round-of-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If we were in Serbia we would all be fired\u2019: Joki\u0107\u2019s Nuggets crash out in first round of playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Minnesota eliminate Denver in Game 6 of series<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Knicks smash NBA records in 51-point rout of Hawks<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>76ers surge in Embiid\u2019s return to force Game 7 v Celtics<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three years after Nikola Joki\u0107 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2023\/jun\/13\/denver-nuggets-nba-finals-championship-nikola-jokic-basketball\">led the Denver Nuggets<\/a> to the NBA championship, the peak looked awfully distant for the team from the Mile High City and the three-time MVP award winner.<\/p>\n<p>Ousted in six games by the Minnesota Timberwolves in their first-round playoff series, the Nuggets trudged into the offseason with plenty of questions to answer about their ability to remain a true title contender in the stacked Western Conference. For the first time in four years, Denver failed to make it to May.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/01\/nba-playoffs-nuggets-timberwolves-knicks-hawks-sixers-celtics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota eliminate Denver in Game 6 of series Knicks smash NBA records in 51-point rout of Hawks 76ers surge in Embiid\u2019s return to force Game 7 v Celtics Three years after Nikola Joki\u0107 led the Denver Nuggets to the NBA championship, the peak looked awfully distant for the team from the Mile High City and &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018If we were in Serbia we would all be fired\u2019: Joki\u0107\u2019s Nuggets crash out in first round of playoffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/if-we-were-in-serbia-we-would-all-be-fired-jokics-nuggets-crash-out-in-first-round-of-playoffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018If we were in Serbia we would all be fired\u2019: Joki\u0107\u2019s Nuggets crash out in first round of playoffs\">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-72909","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\/72909","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=72909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}