Denver Nuggets ahead Aaron Gordon will play in Sunday’s Sport 7 vs. the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder regardless of being recognized with a Grade 2 hamstring pressure that sometimes takes a number of weeks to get well from, sources advised ESPN’s Shams Charania.
Gordon is within the Nuggets’ beginning lineup, sources stated.
The Nuggets ahead suffered the harm late in Thursday’s series-extending Sport 6 win. He was formally listed as questionable to play earlier than the sport.
Gordon, an important a part of the core of Denver’s crew that received the 2022-23 title, has been a power through the Nuggets’ run this postseason. He’s averaging profession playoff highs of 16.8 factors and seven.3 rebounds per sport and has made a number of clutch performs.
The Nuggets are 5-0 this postseason when Gordon scores a minimum of 20 factors, and his seven assists in Sport 6 are tied for probably the most in any sport of his playoff profession.
Gordon has hit a pair of successful photographs this postseason — a buzzer-beating putback dunk in Sport 4 in opposition to the LA Clippers and a 3-pointer with three seconds left in Sport 1 in opposition to the Thunder. He additionally made a 3-pointer with 28 seconds remaining in regulation that compelled additional time in Denver’s Sport 3 victory over Oklahoma Metropolis.
Accidents restricted Gordon, 29, to 51 video games through the common season. He sat out two prolonged stretches due to a proper calf pressure that Gordon is managing.
“If Aaron can go, he’ll go. That is who he’s,” Adelman stated. “There’s some actual toughness there. Generally being actually, actually powerful and being damage can get in the best way.”
