Nuggets’ Spencer Jones goes viral for LinkedIn post after back-to-back game-winners hit over him

It’s common for a young professional like Spencer Jones, who graduated from Stanford in 2024, to take to LinkedIn and share a story on the business-oriented social media platform about a challenge he dealt with at work. “Everybody wants the moment,” he wrote in a post last week. “Nobody talks about being on the wrong side of it.” But the challenge that Jones, a second-year forward with the Denver Nuggets, faced is one that even his NBA peers might struggle to relate to. “Last week, I had two game-winning shots hit on me,” he wrote. “And yeah… that’s the part no one signs up for.” Earlier this month, Los Angeles Lakers All-Star Luka Dončić and reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder both hit game winners over Jones in the span of a week. “It comes with the job,” Jones wrote. Jones, who has started 36 games for Denver this season, opted to share his account of those rough days at the office on the professional networking site and use it to motivate others. The 24-year-old even included photos of the pivotal shots, with Dončić and Gilgeous-Alexander releasing the ball over his outstretched arm in both instances, in
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