Hard work pays off for the young Grizzlies as Memphis beats Denver for the first time since 2024.

The postgame moment between Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic after the Sixers-Nuggets battle generated strong reactions from NBA fans.

The Memphis Grizzlies played one of their best games in the past month and knocked off the Denver Nuggets to snap an eight-game losing streak.

Nuggets head coach lamented to reporters that Nikola Jokic isn’t being respected enough during games as he’d like.

Nikola Jokic arrived in the NBA in 2015 after impressing in the ABA, a league comprising 14 European teams. The Denver Nuggets drafted the promising Serbian in 2014 in the first round (41st overall),

Nikola Jokic is set to play for the Denver Nuggets against the Memphis Grizzlies on March 18, 2026. He has been cleared to play after a minor injury concern. This is a crucial game for Denver's Western Conference seeding.

The Nuggets were not in a very forgiving mood on Wednesday. Making his first public comments since his ejection for tripping Nikola Jokic last Friday, Thunder wing Lu Dort acknowledged that he “went over the limit.

As the 76ers prepared for Tuesday’s shootaround at Ball Arena, Joel Embiid slipped on a jersey. A yellow scout-team “pinnie” that the player-development coaches wear during those sessions, that is. Embiid already had been ruled out for that night’s game against the Nuggets with an oblique strain in his right side that has sidelined the big man for all of March.