{"id":342587,"date":"2025-12-12T06:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342587\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T06:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:52:07","slug":"jokic-has-36-points-and-12-boards-as-nuggets-rout-kings-for-4th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342587\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic has 36 points and 12 boards as Nuggets rout Kings for 4th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic had 36 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists as the Denver Nuggets cruised to a 136-105 victory over the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif.(AP) \u2014 Nikola Jokic had 36 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists as the Denver Nuggets cruised to a 136-105 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Thursday night for their fourth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>Peyton Watson scored 21 points on 7-of-10 shooting for the Nuggets (18-6). Cameron Johnson added 16 and Jonas Valanciunas had 15 points and six rebounds off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic made 14 of 16 shots from the field, including both his 3-pointers, and went 6 for 8 at the free-throw line. He did not play in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Jamal Murray and Tim Hardaway Jr. had 11 points apiece for Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Malik Monk scored 18 points off the bench to pace the Kings (6-19), who have lost six of seven. Russell Westbrook had 17 and Maxime Raynaud finished with 15 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic had 36 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists as the Denver Nuggets cruised to a 136-105&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-342587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342587","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=342587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}