The Denver Nuggets will be without starting power forward Aaron Gordon for multiple weeks due to a calf injury, a league source confirmed to The Athletic.
Gordon left Monday’s game against the Toronto Raptors with the injury after playing just four minutes. His absence, first reported by ESPN, is a significant blow to a Nuggets rotation that has struggled to find consistency outside of its starting unit. Denver has started the season 4-3.
In seven games this season, the 29-year-old Gordon was averaging 15.4 points and 6.7 rebounds per game while hitting 54.5 percent of his 3-pointers.
Gordon has been a mainstay up front next to Nikola Jokić in the Nuggets’ lineup since arriving via trade in 2021. Gordon agreed to a four-year, $133 million extension on the eve of the season.
“In many ways, Aaron is the heart and soul of the team,” Nuggets general manager Calvin Booth told The Athletic shortly after Gordon’s extension. “He does a lot of things on the floor that makes us go. The guys rally around him in the locker room.”
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