{"id":553773,"date":"2026-03-30T07:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553773\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:19:10","slug":"jokic-has-25-points-15-rebounds-nuggets-beat-warriors-116-93-for-their-6th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553773\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic has 25 points, 15 rebounds, Nuggets beat Warriors 116-93 for their 6th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic had 25 points and 15 rebounds, Jamal Murray had 20 points, and the surging Denver Nuggets beat the short-handed Golden State Warriors 116-93 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic finished two assists shy of his fifth straight triple-double but led Denver to its sixth consecutive win. The Nuggets (48-28) are two games ahead of Minnesota and Houston for fourth in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Brandin Podziemski and Kristaps Porzingis scored 23 apiece for Golden State, which continued to be without Stephen Curry.<\/p>\n<p>Curry missed his 25th game in a row with a balky right knee. The Warriors (36-39) have lost 16 of the 25 games with Curry sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>Denver forward Aaron Gordon was out after experiencing calf soreness when he woke up Sunday morning. Gordon has missed 44 games this season with separate hamstring injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets then lost Spencer Jones to hamstring tightness in the first half and Cameron Johnson went to the locker room early in the third quarter holding his left ribs.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson returned to the bench with his torso wrapped. Neither played again.<\/p>\n<p>Things became chippy in the second quarter when Denver backup center Zeke Nnaji, pressed into action due to the injuries, got into an altercation with De&#8217;Anthony Melton and Gary Payton II after Murray and LJ Cryer exchanged shoves.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the period Payton was hit with a Flagrant 1 for a hard foul on Peyton Watson.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State went on a 19-2 run in the second quarter to lead by 13 and it was 53-46 at halftime, but the Nuggets rallied. Tim Hardaway Jr. had 10 points in third when Denver outscored the Warriors 40-21. <\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Warriors: Host San Antonio on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets: At Utah on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic had 25 points and 15 rebounds, Jamal Murray had 20 points, and the surging Denver Nuggets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,1753,2243,355,99,2244],"class_list":["post-553773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-stephen-curry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553773","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=553773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}