{"id":476433,"date":"2025-12-30T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476433"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:04:07","slug":"denver-nuggets-nikola-jokic-set-for-mri-after-left-knee-injury-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/denver-nuggets-nikola-jokic-set-for-mri-after-left-knee-injury-in-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets\u2019 Nikola Jokic set for MRI after left knee injury in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1523\" data-end=\"1748\"><strong data-start=\"1537\" data-end=\"1553\">Nikola Jokic<\/strong> suffered a <strong data-start=\"1565\" data-end=\"1585\">left knee injury<\/strong> just before halftime of the <strong data-start=\"1614\" data-end=\"1638\">Miami Heat\u2019s 147-123<\/strong> win over the <strong data-start=\"1652\" data-end=\"1670\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong>. He was not on the floor for the second half and will have an MRI on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1750\" data-end=\"2022\">The play: Jokic stepped in to help defend a drive, then <strong data-start=\"1806\" data-end=\"1823\">Spencer Jones<\/strong> stepped on Jokic\u2019s left foot as he backtracked, and his knee appeared to buckle. Jokic collapsed, grabbed at his knee, and later walked to the locker room under his own power with a pronounced limp.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2024\" data-end=\"2318\">Coach <strong data-start=\"2030\" data-end=\"2047\">David Adelman<\/strong> said, \u201c<strong data-start=\"2055\" data-end=\"2099\">Immediately, he knew something was wrong<\/strong>,\u201d adding the team will \u201c<strong data-start=\"2124\" data-end=\"2159\">go through the process properly<\/strong>.\u201d Denver is set to fly to Toronto for Wednesday\u2019s game against the <strong data-start=\"2227\" data-end=\"2238\">Raptors<\/strong>, already missing <strong data-start=\"2256\" data-end=\"2275\">Christian Braun<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2277\" data-end=\"2293\">Aaron Gordon<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2298\" data-end=\"2317\">Cameron Johnson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BEST video angle of the Nikola Jokic Knee injury so far<\/p>\n<p>Based on the mechanism the concern would be for<\/p>\n<p>-Best Case Scenario: Hyperextension\/Bone Bruise<\/p>\n<p>-Worst Case Scenario: ACL tear<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t tell if there is a \u201crotational\u201d component to the injury which would be a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m2KfJiry6M\">pic.twitter.com\/m2KfJiry6M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Evan Jeffries, DPT (@GameInjuryDoc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameInjuryDoc\/status\/2005826904310571259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nikola Jokic went down with an apparent leg injury vs. the Heat. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4kPf9HAOt8\">pic.twitter.com\/4kPf9HAOt8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/2005818889683251640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic limped off at halftime of Denver\u2019s loss to the Miami Heat and did not return<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":476432,"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":[179,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-476433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/G9YYcEIagAAmjMa.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476433","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=476433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476433"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=476433"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=476433"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=476433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}