{"id":309382,"date":"2025-11-23T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/309382\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:37:07","slug":"nuggets-forward-aaron-gordon-is-out-indefinitely-with-a-strained-right-hamstring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/309382\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon is out indefinitely with a strained right hamstring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 The Denver Nuggets lost another starter, with forward Aaron Gordon sidelined indefinitely by a strained right hamstring.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced Sunday that Gordon would be reevaluated in four to six weeks and that &#8220;updates will be provided when necessary.&#8221; He played only three minutes in a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nuggets-rockets-score-5583e38ac6bd90908044cc7fec258a32\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">win over the Houston Rockets<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Denver is already without <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/christian-braun-nuggets-nba-b709c1b189b127ba4f2f22f3a3839136\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Braun<\/a> after the shooting guard sprained his left ankle on Nov. 12 in Los Angeles in a game against the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>Peyton Watson and Spencer Jones started Saturday night with Gordon and Braun out during a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nuggets-kings-score-westbrook-62f205a2b544f3ae10c0920fd4df7800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">128-123 loss<\/a> to Russell Westbrook and the Sacramento Kings. Before the game, Denver coach David Adelman said Gordon was sorting out his options.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, he&#8217;s going through it,&#8221; Adelman said. &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to make sure we get the correct answer, to make sure we&#8217;re doing the right things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gordon dealt with a strained left hamstring last season in Game 7 of a second-round playoff series against Oklahoma City. He had eight points and 11 rebounds in just over 24 minutes during a 125-93 loss that ended Denver&#8217;s season.<\/p>\n<p>This season, the high-flying Gordon is averaging 18.8 points and 5.9 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Gordon has been an integral piece for the Nuggets since being acquired in a trade with Orlando in March 2021. Gordon has formed quite a connection with Nikola Jokic, a perennial triple-double threat, and guard Jamal Murray. The trio helped Denver to its first NBA title in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 The Denver Nuggets lost another starter, with forward Aaron Gordon sidelined indefinitely by a strained right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1302,3811,88,97,3812,134,3729,355,3,3813,3814,99,1505,2987,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-309382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-entertainment","tag-health","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}