{"id":470457,"date":"2025-12-25T09:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/470457\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T09:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:18:17","slug":"report-nuggets-forward-cameron-johnson-avoids-major-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/470457\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Nuggets forward Cameron Johnson avoids major knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1971431\" class=\"wp-image-1971431 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/johnson-iso-122425-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1442\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1971431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cameron Johnson got hurt early in the fourth quarter of Denver\u2019s 131-130 loss at Dallas on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENVER (AP) \u2014<\/strong> The Denver Nuggets got good news Wednesday when an MRI revealed that forward Cameron Johnson suffered only a bone bruise to his right knee and not any ligament or structural damage, according to a person familiar with the medical test results.<\/p>\n<p>The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team didn\u2019t announce the results of Johnson\u2019s MRI.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson got hurt early in the fourth quarter of Denver\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/den-vs-dal-0022500415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">131-130 loss<\/a> at Dallas on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>There isn\u2019t a timetable for his return but Johnson is expected to miss a few games. He\u2019s the third Nuggets starter sidelined by injury, joining Aaron Gordon (hamstring) and Christian Braun (ankle).<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets host the Minnesota Timberwolves on Christmas night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Johnson got hurt early in the fourth quarter of Denver\u2019s 131-130 loss at Dallas on Tuesday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":470458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25865,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-470457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cameron-johnson","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115779464546518711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}