{"id":867482,"date":"2026-10-25T14:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/867482\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T14:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T14:42:17","slug":"nikola-jokic-fumes-at-booing-nuggets-fans-not-welcome-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/867482\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic fumes at booing Nuggets fans: &#8216;Not welcome anymore&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having completed a remarkable comeback to knock off the Pelicans on Saturday night, Nikola Joki\u0107 shifted his attention toward his unexpected next opponent: Nuggets fans who had booed the team.<\/p>\n<p>The superstar center heard the jeers of an unhappy, home crowd at Ball Arena, who witnessed the Nuggets getting stomped through the first half. After leading a rally that ended in a 141-135, overtime victory, Joki\u0107 used his postgame news conference to state that those disbelieving and venting fans are not welcome in the Denver arena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get booed in the first home game,\u201d Joki\u0107 told reporters after the Nuggets\u2019 first victory of the season. \u201cI think those fans who booed us, they don\u2019t need to come anymore. Because if you guys follow us, you know that we never quit. And we came back from much worse or similar situations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they ask me, they are not welcome anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41508371\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/user-expressly-acknowledges-agrees-downloading-146411327.jpg\" alt=\"Nikola Jokic #15 of the Denver Nuggets puts up a shot over DeAndre Jordan #6 of the New Orleans Pelicans during the third quarter at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-41508371\"\/>Nikola Jokic #15 of the Denver Nuggets puts up a shot over DeAndre Jordan #6 of the New Orleans Pelicans during the third quarter at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets had trailed, 45-26, in the second quarter when the boos began to rain down, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2026\/10\/24\/nikola-jokic-nuggets-fans-booing-not-welcome\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to the Denver Post<\/a>. Coming off a season-opening defeat in Oklahoma City, the Nuggets dug a hole as great as 23 and were losing by 16 points at halftime against a New Orleans team that is not expected to be good.<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets head coach David Adelman told reporters his team\u2019s first-half effort was \u201cdismal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect our team to come out the way they did,\u201d Adelman told reporters. \u201cIt was a horrendous first half for us. But I liked the fight back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41508390\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/new-orleans-pelicans-guard-jeremiah-146397554.jpg\" alt=\"New Orleans Pelicans guard Jeremiah Fears drives to the rim past Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic during an NBA basketball game.\" class=\"wp-image-41508390\"\/>New Orleans Pelicans guard Jeremiah Fears, left, drives to the rim past Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, in Denver. AP Photo\/David Zalubowski<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps motivated and clearly angered by the boos, Joki\u0107 scored eight of his 35 points in overtime and added 15 rebounds and 10 assists for his 222nd triple-double of his regular-season and playoff career, passing Russell Westbrook for the most combined in NBA history. It was the 199th of Joki\u0107\u2019s regular season, second to Westbrook\u2019s 209.<\/p>\n<p>As Joki\u0107 made history and led the comeback, Nuggets fans cheered. Afterward, though, Joki\u0107 remembered the boos during an odd start to his 12th season with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having completed a remarkable comeback to knock off the Pelicans on Saturday night, Nikola Joki\u0107 shifted his attention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,6,253,302,66],"class_list":["post-867482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-nuggets","tag-basketball","tag-denver","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-denvernuggets","tag-nba","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-nuggets","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117502079474548486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867482","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=867482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}