{"id":441748,"date":"2026-01-29T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/441748\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:41:08","slug":"nuggets-get-a-brutal-and-concerning-injury-update-on-aaron-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/441748\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets get a brutal and concerning injury update on Aaron Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Nikola Jokic missing a lot of games this season, the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nuggets <\/a>find themselves as the #3 seed in the West.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuggets<\/a> have fared well amid key rotational players being out with injuries, but they just got an update that they aren&#8217;t going to be pleased with.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the latest injury update on Aaron Gordon?<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2016989335631933869?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shams Charania<\/a> reported that Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon reinjured his right hamstring and will be out for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Charania reported Gordon is projected to miss about 4-6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/not-know-moment-lebron-james-plays-last-nba-game\/476068b247e81ca733ad1dcb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">We may not know in the moment when LeBron James plays his last NBA game, for this reason<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gordon has played in just 23 games this season, after injuring his hamstring in late-November.<\/p>\n<p>He missed over a month of action and finds himself back out of action, 10 games after he returned from his first major injury this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old already had a left hamstring injury that he played through in the playoffs last year, and now reinjured his other hamstring most recently.<\/p>\n<p>Hamstring injuries are no joke, and players tend to be more vulnerable to injuries once they happen once or twice, so he&#8217;ll have to be very careful moving forward in recovery, especially since he is so vital to the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite Nikola Jokic missing a lot of games this season, the Nuggets find themselves as the #3 seed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-441748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441748","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=441748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}