{"id":368889,"date":"2025-12-24T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368889\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:16:10","slug":"nuggets-forward-cameron-johnson-to-have-mri-on-right-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368889\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets forward Cameron Johnson to have MRI on right knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c4aceb39-0eb9-a30b-1120-9cb5b12b677a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"52d9a7a4-0bee-a926-a5fd-f2ecb96eaa95\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3138196\/cameron-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Johnson<\/a> is set to undergo an MRI after he suffered a painful right knee injury in the fourth quarter of Tuesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401810270\/nuggets-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">131-130 loss<\/a> to the Mavericks in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson went down with 9:18 left in regulation with what appeared to be a noncontact injury and stayed on the floor in clear pain. He eventually was able to get up and limp to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets listed him as questionable to return with a right knee sprain but he did not check back into the game.<\/p>\n<p>After the loss, Nuggets coach David Adelman said Johnson will undergo an MRI and that the team is hoping for the best.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, acquired from the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"926db769-d35e-e282-9d7e-a05001d774ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bkn\/brooklyn-nets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> in a trade for <a data-player-guid=\"84f89e6d-8dd8-5b8b-bfe7-83ba59ee5121\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4278104\/michael-porter-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Porter Jr<\/a>. before the season, entered Tuesday&#8217;s game averaging 11.8 points in 30.9 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets forward Cameron Johnson is set to undergo an MRI after he suffered a painful right knee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-368889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}