Are the Nuggets finally healthy as a team?
Here's where the Nuggets stand injury-wise, after everything they've endured, for their matchup with the Warriors on Sunday night.
The Denver Nuggets entered this NBA season with rightful aspirations at capturing their second league championship in four seasons . The Nuggets even looked the part with a dominant 12-3 start, the best in franchise history. Then, the injuries happened.
And they wouldn't stop happening. By the time Denver was able to catch its breath, it had most of its regular rotation, including three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokić, sitting on the shelf , while guys like Jamal Murray tried to keep Denver afloat. Murray and Co.
did accomplish just that with a 10-6 team record in January, but it's mostly been pretty up-and-down ever since, with the Nuggets' rampant injury issues clearly muddling Denver's team chemistry. It's finally, mercifully a different story for the Nuggets as they hit the stretch run of the regular season. Heading into their marquee Sunday Night Basketball home matchup against the Golden State Warriors , the Nuggets have no one listed on their injury report.
Not a single player. Not one even at the end of the bench. In fact, it'll be the second time in the last seven days that the Nuggets have both Swiss Army Knife forward Aaron Gordon and secondary creator/shot-blocker Peyton Watson available at the same time.