{"id":704529,"date":"2026-04-08T04:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704529\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:02:22","slug":"nikola-jokic-makes-his-mvp-case-clear-nuggets-win-9th-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704529\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Joki\u0107 Makes His MVP Case CLEAR, Nuggets Win 9th Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Nuggets are on a heater right now, winning their 9th consecutive game Monday night against the Portland Trail Blazers. Denver was down as many as 18 points in the second half, but Nikola Jokic helped throttle his team to yet another win. Jokic was sensational, logging yet another triple double while both Aaron Gordon and Cam Johnson up the ante late to help secure the victory for Denver. Jokic again showed why he is deserving of the MVP this season as the Nuggets also leapfrogged the Los Angeles Lakers for control of the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference. <\/p>\n<p>On today\u2019s Shapiro and Piro: <br \/>-Nikola Jokic with another MVP performance <br \/>-Nuggets 2nd straight overtime win <br \/>-Aaron Gordon, Cam Johnson sharp late<br \/>-Nuggets win 9th straight <br \/>-Denver in control of the No. 3 seed<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss the latest updates on Denver\u2019s top teams from Shapiro and Piro \u2014 hit that subscribe button and turn on notifications to stay on top of all the action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Nuggets are on a heater right now, winning their 9th consecutive game Monday night against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-704529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-denvernuggets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nuggets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116367101191541371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704529","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=704529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}