EMERGENCY PODCAST: Jonas Valanciunas out 4 weeks with calf strain
The hits keep on coming for the Denver Nuggets as Jonas Valanciunas is now out for the next 4 weeks due to a calf strain. This comes on the heels of Nikola Jokic’s hyper extended knee that will have him out for at least the same amount of time. Can the Nuggets withstand this and do some postgame comments from Peyton Watson after the Nuggets win over the Raptors shed some light on where this team’s mentality is right now. The DNVR Nuggets podcast discusses on this latest Emergency Podcast.
0:00 – Intro
1:40 – D-Line’s laptop story
3:30 – Big Val is out for at least 4 weeks
10:30 – DaRon Holmes starting?
16:15 – Peyton Watson’s quote
26:30 – David Adelman’s role
30:37 – Nuggets injuries piling up
37:40 – Superchats
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ALL THE NUGGETS ARE INJURED! 😭😭😭
I'm interested to see if DaRon Holmes can show us something.
I don't envy coach Adelman's position of having to figure out rotations with 5 super important players out
Calfs against the cavs
Finally all the Players will get enough Minutes to catch the Rhythm and play for real.
at this point, why not?
let's see what this Nnaji and Holmes rotation can do. Or are they going to play small ball with
-pwatt or even spencer jones at the 5-(edit: actually I forget brucey b usually acts as their 5 when they go small ball) I would much rather give Holmes significant minutes to see if we got anything for next year when JV inevitably leaves.I always appreciate you fellows, but at a time like this (feels like a train wreck) it feels very comforting to be with you. Your humor, honesty and knowledge really helps face this strange situation. Sending love, prayers and support to you all, the Nuggets and Nuggets Nation. We're all in this together.
The NBA approach to load management and injuries, and the Nuggets training staff are all a major fail. Watch, Wemby, with a deeper hyperextension than Jokic will be back in a tiny fraction of the time. Announcing Val out 4 weeks for a calf strain is absurd. Calf strain doesn't take 4 weeks to rehab. When is the last time you saw an NFL player held out 4 weeks for a calf strain. This is incredibly misguided. Holding guys out longer than necessary for "precautionary reasons" actually puts them at GREATER risk of re-injury — they lose more fitness and conditioning, then take longer to re-gain it, and b/c there's no fitness like game fitness, you still can never overcome the lost fitness from the extra time you hold a guy out, except under a longer in-game transition period. Holding AG so long is the same problem. Someone needs to make a re-appraisal of the training and fitness staff, but more importantly, the philosophy and science.
Trading PWatt makes no sense.
There is nobody that the Nuggets can get who is remotely as good for the price necessary to make to worthwhile.
Don't want to jinx us, but you guys are talking like it's a given Jamal will play injury-free through the rest of the season — which realistically is unlikely given his record of injuries and lack of durability.
Adelman is next. Either IBS or a nervous breakdown
we are f……..ked 🙂
Technically, Val's injury happened in 2025 in your time zone.
Just send the Grand Rapids Gold to play the Cavs, because if Mal gets seriously hurt for a completely unwinnable game because he's playing on an injured ankle I will loose my mind
So who on the DNVR is getting down with a 4-6 weeks injury first??
Btw this here is why I think hardship exception should be more nuanced. We have 4 starters and all centers out, yet we do not qualify
I think Jamal should rest. A losing streak is unacceptable, but a potential injury to Jamal would be catastrophic.”
Something in the foods or training or everything are deadly wrong.. how come all the top guys went down
🎉🎉🎉 not ime to see..
Just sending a loot of LOVE as. support to all guys!! All Nuggets fans, adn y,too, eminies- friends 🎉🎉🎉
We passed worst in Jugoslavia,as iw as told …or seef ROM my people( of course We were out…)/.. but, just Happy New year… Lets leave the players ' relax"🎉🎉🎉
About the injuries piling up. One thing the NBA can do is get rid of the stupid NBA Cup nonsense, because just that makes teams play way more back to backs because they have to compress the games left to fit in this stupid thing.
🎉🎉🎉as they would never by their own"/ few weeks,after 6/7 more to find the melody…ajajaja…NBA…🎉🎉🎉
That's where with no way we want you in Europe..
Stay tall,,,smile..and Moen on… healthy..
Happy NY..
Celebrations will not end/ before Chian NY finished 😉
Ba smily 🎉🎉🎉🎉
🎉🎉🎉ps
Jamal is HURT, and let him heal,and NOT PLAY… .. before 6th kokoska padne…🎉🎉🎉🎉
Next 4 weeks is gonna be the time for some guys on the roster. Looking forward to see them show up and prove what they really are
WTF?!? What kind of curse is TF this?!? I have to start using sorcery to fix this SHIT! No other solution!!!
Nuggets cursed with injuries
What happened to gentlemen not wearing a hat indoors?
This is not real stuff
Hunter Tyson needs to prove he is the man. Its time
We are official rolling out the zombie squad 🧟 let's go!
Serge Ibaka.
damn! what a year, we'd be so competitive dis yr.
wish all of our bois be well soon
Nuggets should rest Jamal vs all teams over .500
This is an abnormal amount of injuries. Seems like conditioning is not happening.
I just don't understand this era of basketball. It just doesn't make sense. I hope someone is researching the way the the players are conditioning themselves and training these days because it has to be related or the coaches and medical staff are too cautious in timelines because I just don't remember anything like this in the past. Maybe that is why the longevity is better than in the past because of this extra cautiousness, but still…
If the Nuggets win the championship after all this it would be such an incredible championship.
Trading PWatt seems crazy cause he is playing so good however thats the double edge sword, the point is to trade when the stock is high. We always say to play the guys and hopefully they play well enough to be traded but then if they are playing well we don't want to trade them because its a shame to lose good players, lol.
This quote from Adelman after the Raptors game tells me a lot, really:
"Going into (Toronto), I honestly had no idea what we were going to do, so I just wanted to react to the situations."
Bro: you're the coach; part of your job is at least having a PLAN.
Naji needs to be traded or cut.. he makes too much money and never gets to play cause he don't fit in the top 8 rotation.. we could use another wing or big man and we also need to resign peyton watson with that money he makes 😅
This is really a missfortune. I don't know how did that happen at all.
Spencer jones going off for 30 pts against Cleveland
Denver doctors 4-6 weeks. Do they know any other number?