{"id":526029,"date":"2026-01-09T00:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/526029\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:11:10","slug":"the-celtics-collapsed-in-the-fourth-to-lose-to-a-jokic-less-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/526029\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celtics collapsed in the fourth to lose to a Jokic-less Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Jan. 8, 2026, 2:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Boston Celtics collapsed in the fourth quarter to lose to a Nikola Jokic-less <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/7\/\" data-autotag=\"81d09f83-fd88-4a89-842b-d31778fd3b3c\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> at TD Garden this Wednesday (Jan. 7) night. Great defense and hot shooting from beyond the arc helped power the Nuggets to a 114-110 victory vs. the Celtics, while defensive mistakes and long spells of cold shooting from Boston were the main culprits in the loss on the other side of the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The folks behind the &#8220;NBC Sports Boston&#8221; YouTube channel put together a clip taking a closer look at what went wrong for the Celtics and what needs to happen to prevent such losses in the future. Hosts Chris Forsberg and Abby Chin get into every angle of the loss, as well as a look back at Boston&#8217;s successful West Coast road trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say about the defeat, and what comes next for the Celtics.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__yt_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Yx6iYbOSfI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-g-r=\"vp_tg\" aria-label=\"Play YouTube video\" data-v-t=\"POSTGAME POD: Celtics break win streak after 4th-quarter collapse vs Jokic-less Nuggets\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img gnt_em_vp_img__yn\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/5Yx6iYbOSfI\/maxresdefault.jpg\" onload=\"if(this.naturalWidth&lt;200){this.setAttribute('onload','this.classList.remove(\\'gnt_em_vp_img__yn\\')');this.src=\" https:=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Listen to &#8220;Havlicek Stole the Pod&#8221; on:<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Blue Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Jan. 8, 2026, 2:00 p.m. ET The Boston Celtics collapsed in the fourth quarter to lose to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3781],"tags":[72400,7,301,187,3943,6,302,72493,72494,72404,72497,72459,72454,72445,72406,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-526029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-nuggets","12":"tag-denvernuggets","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nuggets","15":"tag-sstssportsnbaceltics","16":"tag-sstsnceltics","17":"tag-tagbasketball","18":"tag-tagdenver-nuggets","19":"tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","20":"tag-tagonline-video","21":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","22":"tag-tagsports-news","23":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115862247144942768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526029","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=526029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}