{"id":847948,"date":"2026-10-01T01:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/847948\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:12:27","slug":"former-zag-star-ryan-nembhard-signs-with-the-denver-nuggets-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/847948\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Zag star Ryan Nembhard signs with the Denver Nuggets | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER, Colo. &#8211; Former Gonzaga Bulldogs men&#8217;s basketball star point guard Ryan Nembhard signed a two-way contract with the Denver Nuggets today.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old played 60 games last season for the Dallas Mavericks, breaking a Mavericks&#8217; rookie record with 23 assists in Dallas&#8217; win over Chicago this April.<\/p>\n<p>Nembhard averaged 6.6 points, 2.2 rebounds, and 5.3 assists over 19.5 minutes per game with Dallas, and he joins a Denver team with NBA assist leader Nikola Jokic leading the way.<\/p>\n<p>The guard is the 11th current Gonzaga alum in the NBA, joining 2023 draftee Julian Strawther in the Mile High City.<\/p>\n<p>COPYRIGHT 2026 BY KXLY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER, Colo. &#8211; Former Gonzaga Bulldogs men&#8217;s basketball star point guard Ryan Nembhard signed a two-way contract with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,4250,4251,85,6,67,66,83413,1974],"class_list":["post-847948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-local-sports","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-storytracker","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117362998875947974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847948","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=847948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}