{"id":1301849,"date":"2018-12-27T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T20:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=439613"},"modified":"2018-12-27T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T20:42:34","slug":"spurs-hand-nuggets-second-straight-loss-with-fourth-quarter-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/spurs-hand-nuggets-second-straight-loss-with-fourth-quarter-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs hand Nuggets second straight loss with fourth-quarter surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Nuggets may still be in a Christmas lull.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs took it to the Nuggets in the fourth quarter of Wednesday night&#8217;s game and pulled away for a 111-103 win. A 15-0 fourth-quarter run, buoyed by 3-pointers and dunks, sealed the Spurs&#8217; victory, though Denver made a late charge to keep it relatively tight.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets, who host the Spurs on Friday at the Pepsi Center, dropped to 21-11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our transition defense was awful tonight,&#8221; Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. &#8220;San Antonio is not a team that runs at a high level. Bryn Forbes scored 10 points by himself in transition, so I think we allowed the disappointment of missing shots to hang our head and to wait to get back, and when you do that, that&#8217;s losing basketball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets, led by Malik Beasley&#8217;s 15 fourth quarter points, roared back to get it within five, but it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/12\/26\/spurs-beat-nuggets-second-straight-loss\/\">The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/sports\/spurs-hand-nuggets-second-straight-loss-with-fourth-quarter-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Nuggets may still be in a Christmas lull. The Spurs took it to the Nuggets in the fourth quarter of Wednesday night&#8217;s game and pulled away for a 111-103 win. A 15-0 fourth-quarter run, buoyed by 3-pointers and dunks, sealed the Spurs&#8217; victory, though Denver made a late charge to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 19:28:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}