{"id":709026,"date":"2026-04-12T14:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:24:44","slug":"projecting-nuggets-lineup-vs-spurs-if-nikola-jokic-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709026\/","title":{"rendered":"Projecting Nuggets&#8217; Lineup vs. Spurs If Nikola Jokic Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/nuggets\/onsi\/news\/nikola-jokic-reveals-what-sparked-denver-nuggets-win-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> have just one game left on their regular season calendar before their postseason action gets underway, as they&#8217;ll be tasked with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/nuggets\/onsi\/news\/nikola-jokic-injury-update-ahead-denver-nuggets-season-finale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a road trip against the West&#8217;s second-seeded San Antonio Spurs<\/a>. And it&#8217;ll be a game for Denver where they&#8217;ll be without a significant chunk of their regular rotation.<\/p>\n<p>No Jamal Murray, no Aaron Gordon, and neither starter on the wing in Christian Braun and Cameron Johnson will be suiting up in an effort to rest for the postseason. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/nuggets\/onsi\/news\/denver-nuggets-nikola-jokic-cannot-be-quantified\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> is listed as questionable, but is likely to play in order to meet the 65-game minimum required for end-of-season awards.<\/p>\n<p>So, as the Nuggets&#8217; lineup is set to be shorthanded in a night that could decide their final seeding in the Western Conference playoff picture, let&#8217;s take a peek at what their makeshift starting five could shake out to be:<\/p>\n<p>PG: Bruce Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Nuggets have just one game left on their regular season calendar before their postseason action gets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-709026","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\/116392195739452854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709026","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=709026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}