{"id":307450,"date":"2025-11-25T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307450\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:50:10","slug":"nikola-jokic-throws-the-craziest-pass-of-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307450\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic throws the craziest pass of NBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/nikola_jokic\/322891\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> was at it again this week with his witchcraft and wizardry. <\/p>\n<p> Jokic and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/denver_nuggets\/82\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> faced off on Monday against the Memphis Grizzlies at FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tenn. During the closing stages of the fourth quarter, Jokic threw an absolutely ludicrous pass to Nuggets teammate Peyton Watson for the assist. <\/p>\n<p> As he was driving one-on-one against Grizzlies big man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/santi_aldama\/676433\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santi Aldama<\/a>, Jokic seemingly got his vision blocked by a double-team from Memphis\u2019 Cam Spencer. But somehow, Jokic was still able to find a cutting Watson by the baseline and dropped a feathery soft pass behind his back to feed Watson for the easy layup. <\/p>\n<p>Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic was at it again this week with his witchcraft and wizardry. Jokic and the Denver Nuggets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-307450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}