{"id":72638,"date":"2025-12-02T07:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72638\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T07:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:28:27","slug":"nuggets-mavs-instant-reactions-nikola-jokic-denver-embarrassed-by-dallas-in-4th-straight-home-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72638\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets-Mavs Instant Reactions: Nikola Jokic, Denver embarrassed by Dallas in 4th straight home loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is going on at Ball Arena<\/a>? The Denver Nuggets<\/a> fell 131-121 to the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> Monday night in Denver. It\u2019s the Nuggets\u2019 4th straight loss<\/a> at home.<\/p>\n

Those losses? The Mavs<\/a>, Kings<\/a>, Bulls<\/a>, and Spurs<\/a> (without Victor Wembanyama). Not exactly a murderers row of opponents.<\/p>\n

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Nikola Jokic<\/a> finished with 29 points, 20 rebounds, and 13 assists. Spencer Jones had a career high 28 points.<\/p>\n

Anthony Davis led the Mavs with 32 points. Andrew Nembhard had 28.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what else stood out from the game.<\/p>\n

For a moment, Jokic\u2019s NBA<\/a> record fastest triple-double<\/a> ever from 2018 (14:33) was in danger. In the first 9 minutes of the 1st quarter, Jokic tallied 10 points, 8 rebounds, and 6 assists. Then, Jokic slowed down a bit and finished the 1st half with 15 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists.<\/p>\n

Jokic clinched another triple-double with midway through the 3rd quarter. It\u2019s the 7th time he\u2019s gotten a triple-double before the 4th quarter this season.<\/p>\n

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Career night for Spencer Jones<\/p>\n

This was a WILD first quarter. Jokic went crazy, and so did Spencer Jones<\/a> who scored 14 points in the 1st quarter and was into the 20\u2019s in the 3rd quarter.<\/p>\n

Jones was perfect from 3-3 from 3-point range in the first half on his way to a career high. He made 9 out of his first 10 shots tonight.<\/p>\n

Disaster 2nd quarter<\/p>\n

The Nuggets outscored the Mavs 41-27 in the 1st quarter. Then somehow got outscored 42-27 in the 2nd. It was a classic Nuggets let-up. Denver just stopped playing and let Dallas get back into the game. All of a sudden it was a nail-biter into the 2nd half.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets\u2019 first quarter defense evaporated. They let the Mavs get comfortable, and all of a sudden Denver had itself a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is going on at Ball Arena? The Denver Nuggets fell 131-121 to the Dallas Mavericks Monday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[36289,36290,4643,36291,102,104,2582,103,1615,6389,36287,26175,6408,36286,1594,36288,509],"class_list":{"0":"post-72638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-1st-quarter","9":"tag-andrew-nembhard","10":"tag-anthony-davis","11":"tag-bulls","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-headlines","14":"tag-dallas-mavericks","15":"tag-dallas-news","16":"tag-denver","17":"tag-denver-nuggets","18":"tag-dwight-powell","19":"tag-mavs","20":"tag-nikola-jokic","21":"tag-spencer-jones","22":"tag-spurs","23":"tag-the-nuggets","24":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}