{"id":511745,"date":"2026-03-08T20:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511745\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:24:06","slug":"how-soon-will-nuggets-retaliate-for-thunders-cheap-shot-on-nikola-jokic-the-starting-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511745\/","title":{"rendered":"How soon will Nuggets retaliate for Thunder’s cheap shot on Nikola Jokic? | The Starting Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turn on the game!<\/p>\n

Three must-see events this week:<\/p>\n

1. Minnesota at Avalanche (noon Sunday, TNT) \u2014 Ball Arena reunites with Nazem Kadri, whose last playoff game was the Cup-winning Game 6 in 2022. No wonder he longed to return.<\/p>\n

2. NFL negotiation window (10 a.m. Monday) \u2014 Follow Chris Tomasson and Kyle Fredrickson on DenverGazette.com<\/a> to learn where the Broncos spend the big bucks in free agency.<\/p>\n

3. NCAA Tournament Selection Show (4 p.m. Sunday, March 15, CBS) \u2014 Can Colorado State again shoot its way to a Big Dance berth at the Mountain West tournament in Las Vegas?<\/p>\n

Numbers game<\/p>\n

0 \u2014 special teams coordinators on Deion Sanders\u2019 coaching staff at Colorado in 2026, he said, another unconventional move for a Buffs program on the brink<\/p>\n

Box office<\/p>\n

$20 \u2014 for a reserved seat at the CHSAA Class 6A boys Final Four at Denver Coliseum on Friday. No. 1 Chaparral gets No. 5 Rock Canyon (5:45 p.m.), while No. 2 Ralston Valley gets No. 3 Rangeview (7:15 p.m.). Each can win two more.<\/p>\n

On this day<\/p>\n

March 8, 2016 \u2014 Rookie Nikola Jokic (20 points, nine rebounds, three assists) led the Nuggets to a 110-94 win over former Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony (30 points, seven rebounds, four assists) and the Knicks<\/p>\n

Final word<\/p>\n

Will the Nuggets retaliate for Lu Dort\u2019s cheap shot on Jokic? It\u2019s a matter of when, not if. I\u2019ll take the first quarter on Monday (5:30 p.m., Peacock). But the Nuggets have bigger problems than payback. They\u2019re 7-9 since Jokic returned from injury Jan. 30. Only 2.5 games clear of a play-in game, the Nuggets must pile up wins to ensure a playoff rematch with big, bad OKC.<\/p>\n

\u2014Paul Klee, The Denver Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turn on the game! Three must-see events this week: 1. Minnesota at Avalanche (noon Sunday, TNT) \u2014 Ball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-511745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}