[Highlight] David Adelman on Nikola Jokic’s injury: “This is part of the NBA. It sucks, but hoping for the best tomorrow.”
I admit I kind of took his availability for granted. This guy is always available. He played like 95% of the games. I never thought about the possibility that he could get injured and out for some time, which is natural and happens to everyone.
Hope Jokic comes back soon.
Same with Tatum, he was an absolute iron man until the Achilles :(. I hope it’s not serious for Jokic
It’s like being that dad you always call when you need something. You are so used to his availability that when he is gone and you try to call him to help you out on moving out from your dorm it just shocks you that he’s ni longer there to help you.
Bro stop
Nikola Jokic was like a daddy to me
How has Nicola Jokic served as a father figure for you?
Do you view Nikola Jokic as a father figure?
Most Lakers fans do
Laker fan here. First off f you. Second damn it you made me laugh because it’s true :( I regret I only have one up arrow to give sir.
son im crine, you calling another man’s son daddy
Daddy? It’s his availability that I’m talking about. Like that dad whose always available to help out but when he’s gone you’re shocked.
If you’re dealing with any type of loss, I’m so sorry and I hope you’re able to get through it.
But damn, what a wild comparison. I get it, but I also hope you’re doing okay big dawg.
I am actually a son of a murdered father. My dad was not always available, but when we ask “hey dad, the car needs a fix,” or “hey dad, we’re going for a long drive…..” he’s always there. And when he got mudered, and a couple of days after the funeral the car needs fixing and needed a mechanic and I literally said to my mom “Nah no worries, dad will figure it out.” And I literally forgot dad was gone and he isn’t there anymore.
Everyone is being goofy, but I understand what you were saying there, or the point you were trying to get across.
You okay buddy?
uhhhhhhh
This was supposed to be our year. The team looked so good. Then, one by one, the starters dropped. Now, the one that finally derailed the train off the tracks. The possibility of jokic maybe being out for a month or longer is something we never even thought about.
No need to doom out. It could be like a month or less, we started the season with all of our starters out at some point and we’re doing alright
There’s a not insignificant chance this ends up like last year for the Spurs when Wemby went out with a blood clot and we were all like, “Well… fuck.”
It’s still our year amigo nuggets got this
You are vastly underestimating how bad this team will be without Jokic
No you don’t
Yeah but it’s time for Valanciunas to feast for triple doubles.
Don’t know why but he looks like a side character from peaky blinders
I mean this in the nicest possible way but he looks like a GTA IV NPC
he looks like his texture hasn’t rendered yet
He looks like David from the no David series of children’s books
He looks like the gapped-toothed Mad magazine kid if someone drew him from memory
That’s the one. It’s uncanny.
Or an Oblivion NPC lmao
Same thing, different era
My Dad said he looks like the MadTV Logo
He looks like a family member of McPoyles who has a successful career lol
Nikola is dead… to me
Lmfao
He looks like a chipmunk
it’s the haircut and ears
He was on Impractical Jokers, what you talking about.
This, I always see Murr when I see this guy.
I always say he looks like Howdy Doody
If Jokic is out long, Denver should send Valanciunas out there in a Jokic jersey. See how long it takes for their opponents to catch on.
He’ll need to shave the beard
Just shave it down a little, buzz the head, and send him out rambling about horses. Most opponents won’t even notice and he’ll just be a decoy for the defense
Doesn’t look too worried. Maybe a mild hyperextension
Oh he’s dead inside for sure
So am I. But, I also was before tonight.
At least you have Jamie
Pull that up
What is he gonna say lol, “yeah man shits over”
Hyperextension is the mechanism of injury, not the injury itself, so saying it was “mild” doesn’t really mean much. It could be anything from a bone bruise to a sprain/tear
Buddy planted his leg and slipped on a rock. Barely hyperextended his leg. I mean barely. Torn acl.
Not saying jokic tore his, just agreeing with you. Nobody has any idea until they get imaging.
I hope so. League is much better when Jokic is healthy
That’s what I think, having watched the slow mo looked like it hurt like a bitch but don’t think jokic will be out for very long.
Or that’s just hopium for my favorite non pelican player
Just realized how much Adelman looks like the Alien Ant Farm guy
I’m not ok Annie :(
You’ve been struck by clack clack a Spencer Jones
Dude’s been the definition of ironman
Hope he’s back soon
The wording of some of what he says kinda suggests it’s bad but he doesn’t seem overly worried. Hopefully it’s not too bad.
Taking Cam’s case into consideration it’s probably minimum 4 weeks before being re-evaluated because it was very similar looking to his hyper extension. With 4 starters out that’s a death sentence for us record wise, that’s before factoring in other damage
With Jokic, it is fine as he doesn’t move a lot in the perimeter or Jump. Cam on the otherhand is one of the most active defenders and jumps on each posession.
Wording sounds like he’s at least out for a couple weeks. Which isn’t crazy. You just hope it isn’t one of the major knee injuries.
Hope he is alright. Take as much time as needed.
Adelman looks like he’s easy to draw
Looks like the madtv kid
Such a unfortunate thing, prayers for Joker
He didn’t die lmao
Don’t pray for this facist
Huh?
He’s a wanna be Serbian oligarch. 100s of millions wasn’t enough for him so he supported facisism in his home country. Shitty guy great player
Idiot. Not true.
Yeah he did that sorry. Kinda broke my Illusion he was a cool guy too
You sure? He didn’t support student protests, that’s it. And done some betting commercials.
Yeaaaahhh but if you know anything about the situation not supporting the student protests says a lot about where you stand lol love Jokic the player but yeah I was disappointed when I found this out as well
Wow, didn’t know that. Disappointing but not surprising he is on the far right.
Do you just believe everything you read on the internet?
No but I know his brothers are huge POS, so it really wouldn’t be a surprise.
No no you’re supposed to overreact and change the entire rulebook
I don’t think David Adelman is allowed to do that.
Though if he changed the rule about who can change the rulebook then maybe. Just maybe…..
Obligatory not a doctor, but hopefully he avoid any major damage. They can perform an ACL test to determine the integrity of the ligament in real time so if they aren’t immediately going to that, there’s hope.
Yeah I’m with you on this. They know something already. It’s the waiting on tests to confirm that’s scary.
The NBA needs Jokic, hopefully it’s something very minor
How is the oft injured Jamal Murray the only healthy starter on the nuggets. Cursed season
Don’t jinx it bro, he’s the only starter left
I mean surely they ruled out acl by now. That is an easy test
You can’t really rule out ACL without MRI. Some tests can point you towards or away from ACL injury, but they aren’t perfect tests by any means
A doctor ruled out ACL for me without MRI, and I went 2 months playing ball and football till I got heavily injured again.
They only diagnosed me with a full tear after I took an MRI.
Doctor ruled out ACL for my wife and she got an mri the next week and the acl was torn. Granted I do think there’s probably a difference between the 55 year old family doctor and the Nuggets’ team doctor.
Same. I was told it was likely just my meniscus. When I got the MRI my meniscus and ACL were both torn, lol.
A Lachman can be performed immediately and is very accurate, no?
An MRI would just be done for confirmation.
Lachman is the best test without imaging yes, and has a sensitivity in the 80ish%. With someone skilled at it, which I’m sure the nuggets have it might even get close to 90%. That’s very good, but MRI is still the gold standard with sensitivity in the high 90s and less variability based on who is doing the exam. Basically all of that means if the lachman is negative, there’s a good chance it’s not an ACL injury, but there’s still that 10-20%, and you’ll end up getting an MRI anyway as a professional athlete. The team isn’t gonna tell us anything one way or the other until they’ve gotten an MRI, so I don’t think we can speculate what their exam in the locker room showed
Now he’ll have to sit out 4th Quarters smh
Anybody else think this mf looks like Stuart little
where can i watch the whole thing?
I would be absolutely shocked if he’s out for any significant time. Three weeks tops.
He walked off on his own. They listed him as questionable at first. I’m sure he will be in pain when the adrenaline wears off but he’s seriously one of the most durable stars of all time. I can’t imagine a hypertension keeping him out forever.
I hope you are right. But did you watch him walk off? It was not the most confidence-inspiring moment. He looked pretty rough. And my hunch is that he was only questionable because of the timing. It was right at half-time, so they probably weren’t done evaluating him. He never returned to the bench, though.
They really need to start calling offensive fouls on pushoffs.
Plus what’s up with his elbow? We all know he hates putting on extra clothing when playing.
The dude will play skins if he could
Denver is playing in Toronto on Wednesday. His one visit. I really looking forward to watching him
Didn’t know Adelman had a fan base
Why does he look like a lemon head
Type guy that would flirt with your girl or wife at a BBQ
Kinda feels weird to see Joker on an injury report. He felt like the only superstar ironman in the league for so long
I had a dream a week ago that Jokic broke his leg. I really did. But like… break break.
This seems close enough. I’m sorry guys. I should have done or said something.
God he’s talking about him like he’s dead. Play in his honor? Yeah that doesn’t sound good at alllll.
This sucks for basketball. Hope he gets well soon.
If this injury HAD to happen I’m glad it was Jaime Jacquez pushing Spencer Jones into Jokic and not Jaime himself. Idiots would be sending death threats to him and his family. Freak accident. Prayers for Jokic.
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It’s not Spencer’s fault it was Jaime Jaquez Jr. who did the patented Shai Gilgeous Alexander push off on Spencer Jones which launched him backwards into Jokic’s foot.
The push off should be banned and if anything, we only have Shai to blame for normalizing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdPQ3QxDZ1s
fuck the push off. imo its one of the biggest reasons for stat inflation. the offensive player is ltierally allowed to bulldoze and push off for no reason. and this is a surprisingly new thing. go back to the prime kobe and young lebron era in the late 2000s, if u pushed or discarded the defender its an easy call. idk why they randomly just changed it to allow players to play football
i like how you managed to make SGA responsible for Jokic’s injury. You deserve the worst to happen to you as a basketball fan
For real, they’re acting like Shai flew out to Miami and whispered in Jaquez’s ear to do it. So weird
This. Yes.
147…nuggets gave up 147 in regulation. Sure, no reason to be concerned.
They’re missing 4 starters with Jokic out. Two of them might be back end of this road trip, and can Johnson I believe not much longer than those two.
Cam’s out for 6 weeks. We’ll see about the other two.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/78wwmYA3Dh
Yes, I know. The term ‘hoping’ when you’re dealing with a soft tissue injury thats been recurring and a severe ankle sprain doesn’t make me feel great about the timeline.
The last thing we can afford at this point is getting either of those guys back and having them injure it again.
Neither guy has hit their injury recovery milestones yet.
Yeah that’s very fair. I’m just keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for the best case scenario.
That’s your concern?
I think everyone knows a team of Murray, THJ, Watson, BB and Jonas is not good
Uh huh, lots of injuries to starters but defense takes hustle much more than talent and they just don’t seem to have that with any of the lineups. Or did you forget that they lost 4 straight home games earlier this season giving up 130+ per game dipshit
You’re a dick
Not gonna say it’s the only reason, but Braun missed all of those games and AG missed the last three of that stretch.
Its pretty ironic how much defensiveness there is in this thread
You’re the one responding and commenting to everyone posting to you, friend.
Did you… just look at the box score and typed this completely uninformed about the line up? You did, didn’t you?
Did you…just do something the nuggets can never seem to do? Defend with a passion. You did, didnt you?
Holy shit 🤣
Okay, and that makes you point this out in this injury update thread… because?
Do you just want people to know you’re cool, and we should all invite you whenever we have parties or what?