{"id":12704,"date":"2025-04-03T12:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T12:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/denver-nuggets-140-139-minnesota-timberwolves-nikola-jokic-sets-triple-double-record-in-defeat\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T12:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T12:18:24","slug":"denver-nuggets-140-139-minnesota-timberwolves-nikola-jokic-sets-triple-double-record-in-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/denver-nuggets-140-139-minnesota-timberwolves-nikola-jokic-sets-triple-double-record-in-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets 140-139 Minnesota Timberwolves: Nikola Jokic sets triple-double record in defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The Denver Nuggets&#8217; Nikola Jokic hit a career-high 61 points as he recorded the highest-scoring triple-double in NBA history.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Serb, a three-time MVP, claimed 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a 140-139 overtime defeat by the Minnesota Timberwolves at Ball Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The previous record was held by Nuggets team-mate Russell Westbrook, who scored 57 points and made 13 rebounds and 11 assists for Oklahoma City Thunder in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Westbrook, who joined the Nuggets in 2024, missed a lay-up with 10 seconds remaining in overtime with the Nuggets leading 139-138.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then fouled Nickeil Alexander-Walker in trying to block a three-point attempt with 0.1 seconds on the clock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alexander-Walker made two of the three free throws to seal a dramatic Timberwolves victory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/clyqvn421e7o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Nuggets&#8217; Nikola Jokic hit a career-high 61 points as he recorded the highest-scoring triple-double in NBA history. The Serb, a three-time MVP, claimed 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a 140-139 overtime defeat by the Minnesota Timberwolves at Ball Arena. The previous record was held by Nuggets team-mate Russell Westbrook, who scored 57 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12706,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions\/12706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}