Denver Nuggets ahead Aaron Gordon was listed on the morning harm report as questionable for Recreation 7 of the Western Convention semifinals Sunday afternoon towards the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder.
ESPN reported, nonetheless, that Gordon is unlikely to play within the highway sport.
Per ESPN, Gordon has a Grade 2 hamstring pressure and wishes “a number of weeks” for restoration. He left Recreation 6 on Thursday late within the fourth quarter with the harm.
Gordon, 29, is in his fifth season with the Nuggets and was a key participant on their 2022-23 NBA championship staff.
In 13 playoff video games this season, he’s averaging 16.8 factors, 7.3 rebounds and a couple of.9 assists over 38.2 minutes per sport.
He was restricted to 51 video games within the common season attributable to a strained proper calf and a sprained left ankle.
After Gordon went by a walkthrough on Saturday in Denver, interim coach David Adelman mentioned no selections had been made about his availability.
“I am certain the hoops (to leap by) are most likely smaller as a result of the sport’s coming so shortly,” he mentioned. “It is not a factor the place he has three weeks to undergo it. So it will likely be most likely his comfortability, together with the medical employees’s recommendation on what he can and might’t do.
“If they are saying he is accessible, he’ll begin.”
The ESPN report put that unsure.
Gordon has hit two game-winners this postseason: a dunk in Recreation 4 of the opening spherical towards the Los Angeles Clippers and a 3-pointer within the closing seconds to win Recreation 1 towards the top-seeded Thunder. His 3-pointer with 27 seconds left in regulation of Recreation 3 towards Oklahoma Metropolis despatched the fourth-seeded Nuggets to additional time — a sport they went on to win 113-104.
The winner of Recreation 7 can have home-court benefit towards the sixth-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves within the Western Convention finals, which start Tuesday.
Nuggets guards Jamal Murray (sickness) and Russell Westbrook (proper hand sprain) are listed as possible.
–Subject Stage Media