{"id":1304427,"date":"2019-02-27T10:16:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=449262"},"modified":"2019-02-27T10:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:16:51","slug":"nuggets-grind-out-home-win-over-okc-to-take-firm-grip-on-no-2-spot-in-western-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/nuggets-grind-out-home-win-over-okc-to-take-firm-grip-on-no-2-spot-in-western-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets grind out home win over OKC to take firm grip on No. 2 spot in Western Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/tag\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a>\u00a0put up another staggering offensive line, but it was his defense that catapulted the Nuggets to a riveting, series-clinching win.<\/p>\n<p>Up 107-104 with 2:35 remaining, Jokic swiped the ball off\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stats.denverpost.com\/basketball\/nba\/team\/404316\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>\u00a0star Russell Westbrook&#8217;s leg for a crucial turnover before\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/tag\/jamal-murray\/\">Jamal Murray<\/a>\u00a0sunk a dagger 3-pointer, one of his four Tuesday night at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/tag\/pepsi-center\/\">Pepsi Center<\/a>. The margin never got closer than four the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets salted away the sweet 121-112 victory with several Jokic free throws and a rousing MVP chant. Jokic finished with 36 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds, finishing just one board shy of his 13th triple-double of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets wouldn&#8217;t have won without Paul Millsap, whose numerous effort and hustle plays staved off the Thunder comeback.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought Paul Millsap saved the day for us,&#8221; Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. &#8220;As we all know, that&#8217;s a very good basketball team. To have beaten them three times this year says a lot about our team, and I don&#8217;t even think we&#8217;ve played our best basketball yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/02\/26\/nikola-jokic-nuggets-beat-okc\/\">The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/sports\/nuggets-grind-out-home-win-over-okc-to-take-firm-grip-on-no-2-spot-in-western-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic\u00a0put up another staggering offensive line, but it was his defense that catapulted the Nuggets to a riveting, series-clinching win. Up 107-104 with 2:35 remaining, Jokic swiped the ball off\u00a0Oklahoma City Thunder\u00a0star Russell Westbrook&#8217;s leg for a crucial turnover before\u00a0Jamal Murray\u00a0sunk a dagger 3-pointer, one of his four Tuesday night at the\u00a0Pepsi Center. The [&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-1304427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 04:31:41","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\/1304427","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=1304427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}