{"id":37214,"date":"2025-12-31T01:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/three-time-nba-mvp-nikola-jovic-suffers-knee-injury-against-miami\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:50:10","slug":"three-time-nba-mvp-nikola-jovic-suffers-knee-injury-against-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/three-time-nba-mvp-nikola-jovic-suffers-knee-injury-against-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jovic suffers knee injury against Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Three-time NBA Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic suffered a &#8220;gut-wrenching&#8221; knee injury as the Denver Nuggets lost 147-123 at the Miami Heat.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jokic was hurt late in the first half in an accidental coming together with team-mate Spencer Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones stepped on the foot of Jokic who immediately collapsed to the ground clutching his knee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/nuggets-star-nikola-jokic-hurts-left-knee-exits-at-halftime-in-miami\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">had a scan<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> and will be re-assessed in four weeks&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Immediately, he knew something was wrong,&#8221; said Nuggets head coach David Adelman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;This is part of the NBA. Anyone who gets hurt, it&#8217;s gut-wrenching, especially somebody as special as he is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll move on as a team. Obviously, right now, I&#8217;m more concerned just about him as a person and the disappointment of going through something like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jokic, who leads the NBA season in rebounds and assists, had 21 points and eight assists in the game before suffering the injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c5yjy425dnwo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time NBA Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic suffered a &#8220;gut-wrenching&#8221; knee injury as the Denver Nuggets lost 147-123 at the Miami Heat. Jokic was hurt late in the first half in an accidental coming together with team-mate Spencer Jones. Jones stepped on the foot of Jokic who immediately collapsed to the ground clutching his knee. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37216,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37214\/revisions\/37216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}