{"id":385971,"date":"2026-01-02T02:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/385971\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:57:08","slug":"nuggets-jonas-valanciunas-calf-to-be-reevaluated-in-4-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/385971\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets&#8217; Jonas Valanciunas (calf) to be reevaluated in 4 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c4aceb39-0eb9-a30b-1120-9cb5b12b677a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> center <a data-player-guid=\"585a3d05-447b-8a2f-bfed-56049d1c04ba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6477\/jonas-valanciunas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonas Valanciunas<\/a> will be reevaluated in four weeks after sustaining a right calf strain in Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401810323\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">106-103 win<\/a> over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5a9c33b8-63fd-ff34-a833-925fe89320a6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-raptors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a>, the team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47455680\/nba-power-rankings-all-30-teams-new-year-knicks-nuggets-warriors\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nba_power10_cr_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valanciunas limped off with 4:03 left in the third quarter against the Raptors. He finished with 17 points and nine rebounds in 23 minutes against his former team.<\/p>\n<p>Valanciunas is the backup to <a data-player-guid=\"22f57511-06ae-1587-f01b-33965365ce0d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3112335\/nikola-jokic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jokic<\/a>, who hyperextended his left knee in Monday&#8217;s loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"81e3212c-30ef-9b1b-5edb-453b13ff265a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-heat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a>. Jokic is set to be reevaluated in four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets are also without starters <a data-player-guid=\"d6c22a9f-fbe3-1566-e175-c86137d057a5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3064290\/aaron-gordon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Gordon<\/a> (hamstring), <a data-player-guid=\"44c766da-e62b-549a-0575-18b1efc537a1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431767\/christian-braun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Braun<\/a> (ankle) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3138196\/cameron-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Johnson<\/a> (knee).<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets center Jonas Valanciunas will be reevaluated in four weeks after sustaining a right calf strain in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-385971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385971","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=385971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}