{"id":582705,"date":"2026-04-04T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582705\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:47:07","slug":"jokic-scores-40-outduels-wembanyama-as-nuggets-top-spurs-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582705\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic scores 40, outduels Wembanyama as Nuggets top Spurs in OT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 Nikola Jokic had 40 points, 13 assists and eight rebounds, Christian Braun added 21 points and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"denver-nuggets\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> beat San Antonio 136-134 in overtime Saturday to snap the Spurs\u2019 11-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Johnson scored 17, Jamal Murray finished with 15 points and 10 assists and Aaron Gordon scored 15 for the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon scored with 6.2 seconds left in regulation to tie the game, then forced Victor Wembanyama into a miss on the final shot of regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama finished with 34 points, 18 rebounds, seven assists and five blocked shots for the Spurs, who lost for only the third time in their last 30 games.<\/p>\n<p>Stephon Castle scored 20 points for San Antonio, while Devin Vassell and Julian Champagnie each scored 18 for the Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs: Host Philadelphia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets: Host Portland on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Nikola Jokic had 40 points, 13 assists and eight rebounds, Christian Braun added 21 points and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-582705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582705","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=582705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}