{"id":382720,"date":"2026-01-02T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382720\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:05:07","slug":"denver-nuggets-jonas-valanciunas-calf-to-be-reevaluated-in-four-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382720\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets&#8217; Jonas Valanciunas (calf) to be reevaluated in four weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/denver-nuggets\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/denver-nuggets\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jonas-valanciunas\/599780\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jonas-valanciunas\/599780\" target=\"_blank\">Jonas Valanciunas<\/a> will be reevaluated in four weeks after sustaining a right calf strain in Wednesday&#8217;s 106-103 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a>, the team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Valanciunas is the backup to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/830650\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/830650\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jokic<\/a>, who hyperextended his left knee in Monday&#8217;s loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/miami-heat\/14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/miami-heat\/14\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a>. Jokic is set to be reevaluated in four weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Nuggets are also without starters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/aaron-gordon\/748788\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/aaron-gordon\/748788\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Gordon<\/a> (hamstring), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/christian-braun-872541\/1174878\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/christian-braun-872541\/1174878\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Braun<\/a> (ankle) and Cam Johnson (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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":382721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,96662,162922,459,82],"class_list":["post-382720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-denver-nuggets-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-7","tag-jonas-valanciunas-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-599780","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}