{"id":370336,"date":"2025-12-25T05:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370336\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:25:06","slug":"nuggets-forward-cameron-johnson-avoids-major-knee-injury-but-will-miss-a-few-games-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370336\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets forward Cameron Johnson avoids major knee injury but will miss a few games, AP source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 The Denver Nuggets got good news Wednesday when an MRI revealed that forward Cameron Johnson suffered only a bone bruise to his right knee and not any ligament or structural damage, according to a person familiar with the medical test results.<\/p>\n<p>The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team didn&#8217;t announce the results of Johnson&#8217;s MRI.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson got hurt early in the fourth quarter of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mavericks-nuggets-score-c6101c02cc25d2ec2c9c4af265172a2a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver&#8217;s 131-130 loss at Dallas<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t a timetable for his return but Johnson is expected to miss a few games. He&#8217;s the third Nuggets starter sidelined by injury, joining Aaron Gordon (hamstring) and Christian Braun (ankle).<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets host the Minnesota Timberwolves on Christmas night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 The Denver Nuggets got good news Wednesday when an MRI revealed that forward Cameron Johnson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[141525,5930,125041,141524,3979,64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-370336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ap-online-sports-headlines","tag-ap-top-news","tag-ap-top-news-l-twc-regions","tag-ap-top-news-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370336","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=370336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}