{"id":953510,"date":"2026-11-05T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953510\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:28:12","slug":"grading-every-nba-teams-starting-lineup-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953510\/","title":{"rendered":"Grading Every NBA Team&#8217;s Starting Lineup So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Starting 5: PG Jamal Murray, SG Christian Braun, SF Cameron Johnson, PF Aaron Gordon, C Nikola Joki\u0107<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Net Rating\/Record: <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/cleaningtheglass.com\/stats\/team\/8\/lineups#tab-four_factors\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">plus-11.0<\/a> (92 total possessions), 1-2 overall<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The record doesn&#8217;t necessarily show it, although the Denver Nuggets still have one of the best starting fives in all of basketball. Unfortunately, a questionable bench has helped contribute to a modest 3-3 record to begin the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Murray, not Joki\u0107, has led the offensive charge for Denver, averaging a career-high 27.3 points to go along with 5.5 rebounds, 5.7 assists, 1.2 steals and a sparkling 51.9 percent mark from outside the arc. His workload will need to be monitored, however, as Murray&#8217;s 38.3 minutes per game lead the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Christian Braun is enjoying a bounce-back season (15.2 points, 2.3 steals, 40.6 percent from three) and Joki\u0107 is still arguably the NBA&#8217;s best player, even if his raw numbers are down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting 5: PG Jamal Murray, SG Christian Braun, SF Cameron Johnson, PF Aaron Gordon, C Nikola Joki\u0107 Net&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-953510","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\/953510","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=953510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}