{"id":28261,"date":"2025-05-12T22:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/28261\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T22:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:13:06","slug":"sixers-forward-gives-high-praise-to-nuggets-superstar-nikola-jokic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/28261\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers forward gives high praise to Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I played against a lot of tough players.. Maybe Jokic I will say but at this point you face incredible players every night <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eAKhsyXMFm\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/eAKhsyXMFm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guerschon Yabusele (@yabusele28) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yabusele28\/status\/1919805643336106048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/7\/\" data-autotag=\"81d09f83-fd88-4a89-842b-d31778fd3b3c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> superstar Nikola Jokic has been one of, if not the, best players in the league in recent years. The big man from Serbia has three MVP awards and a Finals MVP when he led the Nuggets to their first championship in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" data-autotag=\"b3f2a355-8d98-44c0-a603-3f9a2d8bc375\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> forward Guerschon Yabusele did a Q&amp;A session on social media and was asked who the best player he&#8217;s ever played against is. The Dancing Bear&#8217;s answer heaped praise on Jokic as his answer to the question, but he did acknowledge that in the NBA, he takes on incredible players on a nightly basis. That&#8217;s just how it is in this league.<\/p>\n<p>Yabusele and Jokic had a battle back in February when the Sixers fell to the Nuggets 137-134. Yabusele had 28 points and seven rebounds and Jokic added 28 points, 13 assists, and nine rebounds while making big shots down the stretch to seal the win for Denver.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I played against a lot of tough players.. Maybe Jokic I will say but at this point you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[679,59,72,7,355,617,301,187,3943,74,914,71,86,70,85,6,67,913,253,302,61,134,678,207,132,66,83,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-28261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-affiliate","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","14":"tag-denver","15":"tag-denver-nuggets","16":"tag-denvernuggets","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-jokic","19":"tag-local","20":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","21":"tag-national","22":"tag-national-sports","23":"tag-nba","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-nikola","26":"tag-nikola-jokic","27":"tag-nuggets","28":"tag-overall","29":"tag-overall-positive","30":"tag-philadelphia","31":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","32":"tag-positive","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sports-news","35":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114497166185017893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}