{"id":469797,"date":"2025-11-15T08:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=469797"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:16:04","slug":"denver-nuggets-christian-braun-out-at-least-six-weeks-with-ankle-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/denver-nuggets-christian-braun-out-at-least-six-weeks-with-ankle-sprain\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets\u2019 Christian Braun out at least six weeks with ankle sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1197\" data-end=\"1481\"><strong data-start=\"1197\" data-end=\"1215\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong> forward <strong data-start=\"1224\" data-end=\"1243\">Christian Braun<\/strong> will be <strong data-start=\"1252\" data-end=\"1280\">reevaluated in six weeks<\/strong> after suffering a <strong data-start=\"1299\" data-end=\"1320\">left ankle sprain<\/strong> in Wednesday\u2019s win over the <strong data-start=\"1349\" data-end=\"1364\">LA Clippers<\/strong>, the team announced. The injury occurred when <strong data-start=\"1411\" data-end=\"1427\">James Harden<\/strong> stepped on his foot, causing him to land awkwardly.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1483\" data-end=\"1692\">Braun briefly returned in the second quarter but did not play in the second half. Tests later confirmed the sprain, ruling him out for an extended period as Denver faces <strong data-start=\"1653\" data-end=\"1665\">17 games<\/strong> over the next six weeks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1694\" data-end=\"1883\">A key defensive piece for <strong data-start=\"1720\" data-end=\"1738\">Michael Malone<\/strong>, Braun was averaging <strong data-start=\"1760\" data-end=\"1806\">11.4 points, 4.4 rebounds, and 3.0 assists<\/strong> through the team\u2019s first 11 games, often tasked with guarding top scorers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1885\" data-end=\"1968\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver loses a key rotation player after injury in win over Clippers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":386897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-469797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/Denver-Nuggets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469797"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=469797"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=469797"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=469797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}