{"id":465398,"date":"2026-02-08T00:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465398\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:44:06","slug":"nuggets-cameron-johnson-returns-from-six-week-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465398\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets’ Cameron Johnson returns from six-week absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver Nuggets<\/a> forward Cameron Johnson<\/a> is expected to return to the court for the first time in six weeks against the Chicago Bulls<\/a> on Saturday, according to coach David Adelman.<\/p>\n

The news comes one day after the team announced that forward Peyton Watson<\/a> will miss at least four weeks because of a right hamstring strain.<\/p>\n

Johnson has been out since Dec. 23, when he suffered a right knee bone bruise and hyperextension. It was one of several injuries the Nuggets have dealt with this season, including extended absences for Nikola Jokic<\/a>, Christian Braun<\/a>, Aaron Gordon<\/a>, Jonas Valanciunas<\/a> and now Watson.<\/p>\n

Jokic recently returned from a hyperextended knee and is set to play against the Bulls despite being listed as questionable because of a left ankle sprain. Nuggets forward Spencer Jones<\/a>, however, is in the concussion protocol and ruled out.<\/p>\n

Acquired over the summer in a trade that dealt Michael Porter Jr<\/a>. to Brooklyn, Johnson is averaging just under 12 points this season while shooting 43% from 3.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets have held steady despite the litany of injuries and entered Saturday night’s game tied with the Houston Rockets<\/a> for the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets forward Cameron Johnson is expected to return to the court for the first time in six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-465398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465398","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=465398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}