Adelman said the stress test was good and Gordon himself said it’s the best he felt in a while. They played him to try and steal a game when everyone else was out and it worked.

Not every injury is due to him being rushed or anything like that. Dude just might be injury prone.

Gordon literally demanded to play the Game 7. Denver can’t control when he’s going to play; he’s been back for several games now and looked healthy. They cannot afford to right away make him a part-time player and sit him every back to back.

Denver is literally sitting their players more than any other team because they’re hurt. Watson, Murray, and Valanciunas all finished the game yesterday, and they still sat them today as a precaution. I don’t know what more you expect of them.

I hate this mindset. You can’t bubble wrap players and indefinitely sit them out for fear of injuries, when they themselves are pushing to play and the team needs them out on the court.

Adelman said after the game that AG felt ok to go, and they did a stress test and it seemed like he was ok to go.

Talking about players playing through injuries in the playoffs is the stupidest part of this. The playoffs is everything for teams like the Nuggets. If AG or MPJ or Murray don’t play the playoffs, the entire season is pointless.

They stalling till jokic comes back, Once jokic comes back they can sit Gordon till the late part of the season

His body is breaking down and I don’t trust him to stay healthy for four rounds. The hamstrings is so concerning because he had the full offseason to recover from the okc series where he got hurt. Nuggets fans might not accept it but the team needs to start considering his future in Denver.

These threads criticizing medical staff are so asinine.

No, we cannot LITERALLY tell a grown adult what they can and cannot do. That’s not how medicine works.

We advise, we prognosticate, we discuss scenarios, and we give OPINIONS. The adult professional athlete patient ultimately decides if he wants to play or not.

We do advise coaching staff in accordance with the player input on whether we ALL think a decision is medically sound or not. But the player gets to decide if he wants to accept the recommendation or not (the same way all of us get to decide whether we will accept our doctor’s advice or not.)

Truthfully, if a player blew out his ACL and wanted to keep going, he literally could despite that being monumentally stupid. If memory serves me right, a QB in the NFL literally did that years ago, and his offensive linemen CARRIED him upfield after each play. Stupid? Yes. But the adult patient decides his medical treatment and coaching staff decide playing time.

Muscle injuries are notoriously difficult to prognosticate. They’re easy to diagnose, but they’re very difficult to accurately time in terms of safety of returning to sport. And each person’s body responds differently to rest and rehab. Literally no professional sporting association in the world has a fool proof way of managing lower extremity soft tissue injuries for EVERY player.

Also, every professional basketball player talks about a tight calf, or groin, or hamstring, or ab muscle with their training staff every week. If we go only on that, we wouldn’t have a league to even watch.

Gordon and Jonas are the only two players with muscle injuries that are load dependent. Watson and Braun’s ankle injuries are not overuse, they are acute injuries.

Same with Cam and Jokic’s knee contusions. Impact injuries unrelated to overuse.

I don’t get what possesses people to write these posts. On the contrary to your asinine thoughts, as a sports med doc, the nuggets staff have done an incredible job balancing rehabbing and resting all of these injured athletes.

I have no clue what your expectations are in

Sincerely,

A sports med doc

P sure the players have discretion as to when they play and if they are good enough to go.

But tell us more Doc.

OP’s throwing stones at trains rn

I am pretty sure, it is players decision. Teams need to protect players even for themselves sometimes but this is not the case. Aaron gordon is an 30 years old player having 3 more years contract with nuggets. This is not an isaiah tomas - celtics situation.

Gordon was always in denial about his injuries in all interviews he always saying that he is perfectly fine and ready to play. When you see him in game and you can notably see that he is saving himself and not playing fully engaged. He had that hamstring for like 2 years, even before playoffs.

“It seems the Nuggets couldn’t care less about the health of their players.”

You have something you wanna tell us bud? How have the nuggets hurt you?

Makes me kinda thankful that the Warriors didn’t rush back Steph in that Minnesota series.

Damn

Why hop on an alt to post this?

They may need to overhaul medical staff. They’re not going off the coach’s call. If the nugget’s medical team clears them, then that tells the team they’re healthy enough to play. Clearly the medical team Is getting it wrong, and they may need to reevaluate how they’re assessing their players, or maybe even the nuggets FO may have to go another direction with their medical team.

If you know the guys injury prone especially having a history with his hamstrings, why the fuck do you play him on B2Bs.

Warriors medical staff themselves look S-tier compared to this.

Why. Just give him the night off, their record is ok enough. Jokic will be back soon.

IIRC the same thing happened when he was on the magic he played thru a hamstring injury

Lmfao you’re just lying

Specifically his hammy that’s injured is a different one than last year

Cb’s ankle wasn’t reaggravated

It’s also funny to take players (Val and mal) who rested today out of caution who aren’t hurt as somehow proof for your dumb narrative e

shit post

Why are u phrasing it like he was forced to play. He literally wanted to play.

Braun’s situation is so amateurish, bro came back for two games and went back to injuried status, cos he couldn’t fully play yet xD wtf are they doing over there. medically evaluate your players, hello?

Same with playing Gordon on b2b, when it was notable that he saving himself and not playing fully in the previous games. Who cares about some random game about bucks mid season. Also remeber when they played shoulder injuried Porter and he couldnt shoot at all in play off, which was super questionable. Like wtf are they doing over there..

Appalling decisions and guess what , recurring injury forever, oh look another hamstring who would have thought

Nice narrative buddy

Considering we won the game by 2 points and the staff and AG both felt he was good to go, I like the decision to play him. He had 13 points, likely won us that game. Assigning blame to things like this after the fact is rarely constructive, and I’m glad Adelman knew this and framed it that way in the presser.

Hold up. Are you the team doctor? Did you personally tell the team they weren’t ready to come back? And then they played them anyway?

Oh you aren’t the team doctor and your just being a dumbass on the internet? Sounds about right.

You really think a team with championship aspirations is forcing players to play before they are medically cleared?

So much for the Nuggets challenging the Thunder!