{"id":3792,"date":"2023-05-09T21:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T01:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2023-05-09T21:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T01:22:56","slug":"mat-ishbia-and-nikola-jokic-make-up-before-game-5-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=3792","title":{"rendered":"Mat Ishbia and Nikola Jokic make up before Game 5 (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>After an incident during Game 4 in Phoenix, Nikola Jokic and Suns owner, and former MSU walk-on, Mat Ishbia have made up.<\/h2>\n<p>If you went to bed early on Sunday night, you may have missed one of the most bizarre confrontations in recent NBA history. <a href=\"http:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/reactions-around-nba-mat-ishbia-nikola-jokic-incident\/\">Nikola Jokic pushed Suns owner<\/a>, and former Michigan State walk-on, Mat Ishbia with his forearm and the Spartan flopped like a true pro.<\/p>\n<p>It was just an odd situation and no one really knew how to react.<\/p>\n<p>Do you discipline Jokic further than the technical he received during the game? Do you suspend him for a playoff game? Do you fine him?<\/p>\n<p>Those questions floated around all throughout the remainder of Game 4 on Sunday night but Jokic wasn&#8217;t disciplined further and Ishbia didn&#8217;t want him to be. He issued a statement saying that he respects Jokic and that suspending him a game would be silly.<\/p>\n<p>Well, on Tuesday night, the two met face-to-face after Jokic went through shootaround.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic jokingly tossed him the basketball (as a reference to the scuffle on Sunday) and the two exchanged a quick handshake before Nikola went into the locker room.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joker\u2019s got jokes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PlscuVA5XV\">https:\/\/t.co\/PlscuVA5XV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JNI7WnkC02\">pic.twitter.com\/JNI7WnkC02<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn_macmahon\/status\/1656098397533900801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You love to see the good sportsmanship here.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I&#8217;m sure that the &#8220;fan&#8221; label that Jokic gave Ishbia following the game was rescinded and the two have likely spoken privately about the incident. There&#8217;s clearly no bad blood here and it was just a misunderstanding of the situation between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Ishbia has quickly made headlines as an owner in the NBA and he&#8217;s barely been in Phoenix for a few months. Shortly after he took over, the organization traded for Kevin Durant, and the team looks poised to make a run to the NBA Finals, knotted at 2-2 before Game 5 with the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope the headlines with Ishbia are more drama-free and light moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jokic and Ishbia have officially mended fences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[265,190,189,394],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pro-spartans","tag-mat-ishbia","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-nikola-jokic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}