EMERGENCY PODCAST: Nikola Jokic out 4 week with hyper-extended knee

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4.7 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The worst case scenario has been avoided. Nikola Jokic has no ligament damage and suffered a hyper-extended knee last night. He will be re-evaluated in 4 weeks. The Denver Nuggets are now down 4 starters, including the three time MVP of the NBA. Where does the team go from here and how can they survive this next stretch? The DNVR Nuggets fellas break it all down in this emergency edition of the DNVR Nuggets Podcast!

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0:00.0	Oh, there it is.
0:05.4	Fired up, I guess.
0:08.1	I don't know.
0:09.5	What is up, everybody, and welcome to an emergency podcast version of the DNVR Nugget show.
0:15.9	Presented by New Built Construction.
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0:20.9	nubilt dot com you can also call them at 720903 4254 let them know d nvr sent you always let them know
0:28.5	dnvr sent you um you don't don't tell them though that it was under these circumstances
0:34.4	don't let them know that i found out about you guys when Yokic got injured.
0:39.3	Like, yeah, really?
0:40.3	That's crazy.
0:41.3	I don't know how you felt today, but like I set my alarms, you know, I didn't have anything
0:47.3	early this morning, which is a rarity.
0:49.3	And I still set my alarms with these like 30 minute windows just to make sure if news came in at like six o'clock in the morning I would I'd be up and at them. And it was dread. And when the news hit that it was only four weeks, so if you didn't hear Nikola Yokic is out, they have not actually said what the injury is. They said a hyper extension, which unfortunately we've become so versed in is not an actual injury. It's an act that leads to an injury. We don't know. Is it bone bruising? Is there something that was torn or strained or anything else? We don't know any of that. All we know is that he'll be reevaluated in four weeks. With Cam Johnson, I think they, four to six weeks. So Yokic, maybe we look at that and say a little bit lighter but before we get into
1:27.8	any of those to the details dline as i got the news i it's weirdly it wasn't relief it was relief in a way
1:34.9	because we that's not the uh doomsday scenario but it is still like before relief it was like
1:40.9	damn this is going to be tough so i made a point to not have any thoughts about
1:48.0	this going into I just did not want to think about the worst I didn't want to think of I just
1:52.6	wanted to allow whatever was going to happen to happen so so Zen of you I have to be man
1:58.2	like listen we have no control in life we have no. Like, listen, we have no control in life. We have no control of Yokic.
2:04.5	We have no control over anything. And I just can't, at this stage of my life, I can't get worked
2:09.7	up about something until I have to. And so I went to bed and then I woke up and you had
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