{"id":624435,"date":"2026-04-24T00:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624435\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:33:08","slug":"nuggets-gordon-to-miss-game-3-vs-wolves-with-calf-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624435\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets&#8217; Gordon to miss Game 3 vs. Wolves with calf injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; The Denver Nuggets will be without starting wing Aaron Gordon for a pivotal Game 3 in Minneapolis on Thursday night because of calf tightness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gordon was initially listed as probable on the injury report, but was downgraded to questionable on Thursday morning and officially ruled out two hours before tip-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nuggets coach David Adelman said Gordon first mentioned the calf issue after Denver\u2019s 119-114 Game 2 loss at home. The team was optimistic the two-day break would allow him to recover in time, but Adelman said Gordon\u2019s calf issue didn\u2019t improve as expected by Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a downer,\u201d Adelman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gordon missed 46 games this season, mostly due to repetitive hamstring strains. Denver\u2019s other starting wing, Peyton Watson, is also out due to a hamstring injury. Watson worked out on the floor in Minneapolis after shootaround on Thursday morning and the Nuggets are hopeful to get him back in this series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gordon will get treatment on his calf Thursday night, Adelman said, and the team will huddle during Friday\u2019s off-day before deciding his status for Game 4 on Saturday night. The series is tied 1-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; The Denver Nuggets will be without starting wing Aaron Gordon for a pivotal Game 3 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[234189,49,48,96662,459,82],"class_list":["post-624435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-aaron-gordon-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-748788","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-denver-nuggets-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-7","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624435","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=624435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}