{"id":495265,"date":"2026-02-21T19:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495265\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:28:10","slug":"nikola-jokic-sets-a-new-career-high-in-blazers-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495265\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic sets a new career-high in Blazers win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic had a +\/- of 40 in the win over the Portland Trail Blazers, the biggest in his career so far. Luc Mbah a Moute holds and NBA record in this category with a +\/- of 57.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/teams\/142-denver-nuggets.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> steamrolled past the <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/teams\/467-portland-trail-blazers.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> in Oregon, beating them 157-103.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tDenver Nuggets \/ Schedule<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/players\/18838-nikola-jokic.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> had a monstrous performance, contributing to his team&#8217;s away victory with 32 points (7\/11 2PT, 3\/4 3PT, 9\/11 FT), 9 rebounds, and 7 assists in just 29 minutes on the court.<\/p>\n<p>But the most impressive thing about Jokic&#8217;s game was his +\/- stat.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a\/status\/2025090125357515030\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jokic had a +\/- of 40 in the Nuggets&#8217; 54-point victory, which is his career-high in the +\/- category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As of now, Luc Mbah a Moute holds the NBA record for the biggest +\/- in a single game, achieving a score of +57.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This year, Jokic is averaging 28.6 points, 12.3 rebounds, and 10.5 assists in 41 games.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/plus?utm_source=basketnews_com&amp;utm_medium=bn_plus&amp;utm_id=UA-259273-31&amp;utm_campaign=banners_free_content_for_not_members_bottom_3\" class=\"banners_paid_content_info_block_white banners-paid-content-info-block-white\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bn-plus-img img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bn-plus.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Support BasketNews so we could make even better content.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If you like our content, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=basketnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and add us as your preferred source. It helps us a lot, and we are committed to delivering you the very latest basketball news.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic had a +\/- of 40 in the win over the Portland Trail Blazers, the biggest in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-495265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495265","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=495265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}