{"id":492561,"date":"2026-01-04T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492561\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:47:08","slug":"depleted-nuggets-get-christian-braun-aaron-gordon-back-vs-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492561\/","title":{"rendered":"Depleted Nuggets get Christian Braun, Aaron Gordon back vs. Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The injury-ravaged <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c4aceb39-0eb9-a30b-1120-9cb5b12b677a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> will be getting reinforcements Sunday as starters <a data-player-guid=\"44c766da-e62b-549a-0575-18b1efc537a1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431767\/christian-braun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Braun<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"d6c22a9f-fbe3-1566-e175-c86137d057a5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3064290\/aaron-gordon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aaron Gordon<\/a> are available to play vs. the Nets in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Braun had missed 23 games with an ankle injury while Gordon had missed 19 straight games because of a hamstring strain. Braun was in the starting lineup while Gordon came off the bench. Both will be on a minutes limit.<\/p>\n<p>Their return is a welcome sight for a Nuggets team that kept losing key players in recent weeks and played the last two games without four starters.<\/p>\n<p>Superstar center <a data-player-guid=\"22f57511-06ae-1587-f01b-33965365ce0d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3112335\/nikola-jokic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nikola Jokic<\/a>, starting forward <a data-player-guid=\"52d9a7a4-0bee-a926-a5fd-f2ecb96eaa95\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3138196\/cameron-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameron Johnson<\/a> and reserve big man <a data-player-guid=\"585a3d05-447b-8a2f-bfed-56049d1c04ba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6477\/jonas-valanciunas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonas Valanciunas<\/a> are all still expected to miss multiple weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets will be facing former longtime teammate <a data-player-guid=\"84f89e6d-8dd8-5b8b-bfe7-83ba59ee5121\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4278104\/michael-porter-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Porter Jr<\/a>. in Sunday&#8217;s matchup in Brooklyn. Porter had missed the previous two games with illness but is available to play against his former team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The injury-ravaged Denver Nuggets will be getting reinforcements Sunday as starters Christian Braun and Aaron Gordon are available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":492562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-492561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115838795337846052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492561","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=492561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}