Small flat to the beautiful Christmas party in Denver: the veteran of the veterans, Jeff Green aka Uncle Jeff, was injured this Friday once morest the Blazers. The uncle of the Nuggets has fractured his hand and he should miss at least four weeks…
The end of the year was however perfect in Mile High City: victories in spades, a Nikola Jokic back to his level of double MVP in title and an infirmary gradually emptied (even Michael Porter Jr. is available, that is to say ). But if Michael Malone’s team was able to celebrate it all in style with a great victory once morest the Suns in the last match of this Christmas Day, in particular thanks to a Joker who allowed us to end the evening in apotheosisthere is one who might only celebrate as a spectator, and it is good old Jeff Green.
Big injury news for Denver: Jeff Green sustained a left finger sprain and left hand fracture in the 4th quarter last night vs. Portland, Nuggets announced today. He’ll be reevaluated in four weeks. Denver may try and soak up some of those backup PF minutes with Michael Porter Jr.
— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) December 24, 2022
Broken left hand, and sprained finger as a bonus, it hurts for Jeff. Balance sheet? At least one month away for the 36-year-old veteran, who until then provided good minutes off the bench (19.3 minutes per game for 7.5 points and 2.8 rebounds) and who above all still had fun terrorize his opponents… and the equipment with tomars. Anyway, here we are sure that it is a blow of the NBRA (the National Basketball Rims Association).
Do not panic in Denver, since MPJ should see his minutes increase to partially compensate for the absence of back-up Aaron Gordon in position 4, while the other minutes should be filled by Zeke Nnaji, who we see much less this season, or even Vlatko Cancar. Anyway, there’s no fire at the lake in Colorado, since the Nuggets currently occupy the first place in the Western Conference with a record of 21 wins and 11 losses. So we are patiently waiting for Uncle Jeff to recover from his injury…
Source : DNVR Sports / Harrison Wind
