{"id":301595,"date":"2025-11-23T11:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301595\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:26:07","slug":"sacramento-kings-overcome-nikola-jokics-44-points-beat-denver-nuggets-to-end-eight-game-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301595\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings overcome Nikola Jokic\u2019s 44 points, beat Denver Nuggets to end eight-game slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER (AP) \u2014 Russell Westbrook<\/a> scored 15 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter against his former team, and the Sacramento Kings<\/a> withstood 44 points from Nikola Jokic<\/a> to beat the Denver Nuggets<\/a> 128-123 on Saturday night, ending an eight-game slide.<\/p>\n

Dennis Schroder<\/a> also had 21 points for Sacramento, which lost every game during the streak by double digits \u2014 the last by 41 points at Memphis on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Kings appeared on their way to a ninth straight defeat after falling behind by 13 in the third quarter, but they rallied to take the last of three games against Denver this season.<\/p>\n

Keegan Murray<\/a> had 19 points in his second game back from offseason surgery on his left thumb. DeMar DeRozan<\/a> added 17, including a three-point play with 12 seconds left that sealed it.<\/p>\n

It was the second consecutive home game in which the Nuggets fell to a team on an extended losing streak. Chicago handed them their first home loss Monday night to stop a five-game skid.<\/p>\n

Jokic had 19 points in the fourth quarter. He finished with 13 rebounds and seven assists. <\/p>\n

Jamal Murray<\/a> scored 23 points and Cam Johnson had 20 for the Nuggets, who were without Aaron Gordon<\/a>. The forward injured his right hamstring early in Friday night\u2019s win at Houston.<\/p>\n

Spencer Jones<\/a> made his first career start in place of Gordon.<\/p>\n

Murray\u2019s free throw midway through the third gave Denver a 79-66 lead, but the Kings rallied to take a lead late in the period, then scored 10 straight points early in the fourth to go up 104-98.<\/p>\n

They extended it to 114-105 on Westbrook\u2019s layup before Denver rallied to get within 123-120 on Jokic\u2019s 3-pointer. DeRozan iced it with a three-point play and hit two more free throws in the final seconds.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Kings: Host the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Nuggets: At the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

Michael Kelly, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Russell Westbrook scored 15 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter against his former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-301595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}