Are There Any Bright Spots in the Denver Nuggets’ Injury-Plagued Season?

March 22nd, 2014 by Joe Flynn Leave a reply »

In what has seemingly become a weekly tradition, the Denver Nuggets lost another player to a major knee injury. This time, the victim of the Nuggets knee curse was big man J.J. Hickson, per the Denver Post's Chris Dempsey.



Indeed, Hickson leads all Nuggets in total rebounds (632) and rebounds per game (9.2). He started 52 of 69 games for Denver, though he was replaced in the starting lineup in late February.

Hickson joins shooting guard Nate Robinson, who tore a ligament in his knee in late January, as Nuggets who suffered season-ending knee injuries during the year. And that doesn't even include small forward Danilo Gallinari, who ruptured the ACL in his knee last spring, rehabbed during the first few months of this season, only to undergo a second ACL surgery in January when an MRI revealed the ligament had never healed properly.

On the non-knee front, center JaVale McGee has missed all but five games of this season with a tibia fracture that, like Gallinari's knee, never quite healed properly. The Nuggets might just lead the league in stubborn lower-body maladies.

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