{"id":384372,"date":"2026-01-01T08:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384372\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:50:17","slug":"three-time-mvp-jokic-suffers-gut-wrenching-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384372\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-time MVP Jokic suffers &#8216;gut-wrenching&#8217; injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time NBA Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic suffered a &#8220;gut-wrenching&#8221; knee injury as the Denver Nuggets lost 147-123 at the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic was hurt late in the first half in an accidental coming together with team-mate Spencer Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Jones stepped on the foot of Jokic who immediately collapsed to the ground clutching his knee.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/nuggets-star-nikola-jokic-hurts-left-knee-exits-at-halftime-in-miami\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:had a scan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">had a scan<\/a> and will be re-assessed in four weeks&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Immediately, he knew something was wrong,&#8221; said Nuggets head coach David Adelman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is part of the NBA. Anyone who gets hurt, it&#8217;s gut-wrenching, especially somebody as special as he is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll move on as a team. Obviously, right now, I&#8217;m more concerned just about him as a person and the disappointment of going through something like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jokic, who leads the NBA season in rebounds and assists, had 21 points and eight assists in the game before suffering the injury.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time NBA Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic suffered a &#8220;gut-wrenching&#8221; knee injury as the Denver Nuggets lost 147-123&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,3896,1662,18996,3512,7223,590,82339,85],"class_list":["post-384372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-david-adelman","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-jokic","tag-knee-injury","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-spencer-jones","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384372","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=384372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}