{"id":629738,"date":"2026-02-28T05:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/629738\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:35:24","slug":"nikola-jokic-angrily-confronts-lu-dort-for-tripping-him-as-tempers-flare-in-nuggets-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/629738\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Joki\u0107 angrily confronts Lu Dort for tripping him as tempers flare in Nuggets-Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Joki\u0107 had something to say to Lu Dort on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A skirmish broke out in the fourth quarter of the Oklahoma City Thunder&#8217;s clash with the Denver Nuggets, when the Thunder guard appeared to intentionally trip the three-time MVP. At the very least, it was a hip check with an outstretched leg.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Joki\u0107 took exception to the contact and angrily confronted Dort, who is well known for being one of the NBA&#8217;s most, ahem, physical players. Dort&#8217;s teammate Jaylin Williams than confronted Joki\u0107, and the two got physical as players and coaches from both sides quickly rushed to midcourt.<\/p>\n<p>It took a while, but the two were eventually pried loose from each other.<\/p>\n<p>The end result of the incident was Dort being ejected for a Flagrant 2 foul, while Joki\u0107 and Williams were hit with offsetting technical fouls.<\/p>\n<p>Further replay showed a side of Joki\u0107 that was frankly terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was part of a thriller between two teams that could be seeing each other in the NBA playoffs. The game went to overtime after Joki\u0107 tied the game with 38 seconds left in regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article will be updated with more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikola Joki\u0107 had something to say to Lu Dort on Friday. A skirmish broke out in the fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,32193,301,187,3943,839,6563,182,6,253,302,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-629738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-christopher-hanewinckel-imagn","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-nuggets","12":"tag-denvernuggets","13":"tag-dort","14":"tag-jaylin-williams","15":"tag-lu-dort","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nikola-jokic","18":"tag-nuggets","19":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116146637194588531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629738","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=629738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}