{"id":645528,"date":"2026-05-02T20:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645528\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:03:22","slug":"nba-results-nikola-jokics-denver-nuggets-defeated-by-minnesota-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645528\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA results: Nikola Jokic&#8217;s Denver Nuggets defeated by Minnesota Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Minnesota Timberwolves will face the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference semi-finals of the NBA play-offs after eliminating the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Timberwolves won game six 110-98 to win the best-of-seven series 4-2<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a tight contest, the Timberwolves led 57-50 before Denver&#8217;s Nikola Jokic scored 14 points in the third quarter to set up a close finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jokic, voted the NBA&#8217;s Most Valuable Player on three occasions, ended the game with 28 points and 10 assists, but his performance was overshadowed by his involvement in an altercation with Timberwolves&#8217; Jaylen Clark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair pushed one another with just under 10 minutes to play, which resulted in a technical foul for both players alongside Timberwolves&#8217; Naz Reid, who also became involved in the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This comes after Jokic was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c4gxg2pxdr7o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ejected for instigating a scuffle at the end of game four.<\/a> After the defeat, the Serbian said: &#8220;I needed to play better. I must play better.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jaden McDaniels starred for the Timberwolves with a career-high 32 points, and they could be boosted by the return of Anthony Edwards from injury for Monday&#8217;s opener against the Spurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Timberwolves will face the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference semi-finals of the NBA play-offs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-645528","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\/645528","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=645528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}