{"id":486511,"date":"2026-03-04T15:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486511"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:42:05","slug":"nuggets-aaron-gordon-targeting-return-friday-vs-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-aaron-gordon-targeting-return-friday-vs-knicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets: Aaron Gordon targeting return Friday vs. Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1428\">The <strong data-start=\"1252\" data-end=\"1270\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong> could have <strong data-start=\"1282\" data-end=\"1298\">Aaron Gordon<\/strong> back as soon as Friday against the <strong data-start=\"1334\" data-end=\"1353\">New York Knicks<\/strong>, with the veteran forward reportedly targeting a return later this week.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1634\">Gordon has been sidelined since <strong data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1476\">January 23<\/strong> after suffering his second <strong data-start=\"1504\" data-end=\"1524\">hamstring strain<\/strong> of the season. He previously missed 19 games, returned for 10, then went down again for the past six weeks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1636\" data-end=\"1798\">Denver is expected to ramp him up carefully with the postseason in mind, while also waiting on <strong data-start=\"1731\" data-end=\"1748\">Peyton Watson<\/strong>, who remains out with a hamstring strain as well.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1800\" data-end=\"1894\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"1800\" data-end=\"1840\">Source: <strong data-start=\"1809\" data-end=\"1839\">The Athletic (Sam Amick)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver\u2019s forward has been out since Jan. 23 with a second hamstring issue this season<\/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":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"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\/486511","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=486511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486511\/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=486511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486511"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486511"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486511"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}