Most of the time in the NBA qualifiers, the healthier and more sustainable team moves on. The Denver Nuggets are trying to be the aberrant value against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Nuggets have lost two consecutive games to fall into a 3-2 hole, but a huge victory for the match 6 at home forced a match 7 and maintained its alive season. Unfortunately for the Nuggets, they played more qualifying matches than any other team this season, and it is starting to show themselves.
Nugget striker Michael Porter Jr. plays with a seriously injured shoulder, and after match 6, he revealed that he had received a Lidocaine game and will do it again before match 7 on Sunday.
Porter Jr. was initially injured in the shoulder during their confrontation in the first round against the Clippers, and he has been extremely incoherent since. Through six second round games, Porter Jr. scored three points or less three times, but also exploded for 21 points with five three points in match 3.
Porter Jr. was diagnosed with a slide of grade 2 shoulder, which would generally set it up for an extended period, but he played it.
“They said it would be 4-6 weeks. I don’t do this,” said Jr. after the injury.
Porter Jr. did not let his shoulder injury mark him once this playoffs, and even if you have to have a photo of lidocaine to keep him on the ground, he devotes himself to being there with his team.
Nuggets go to Oklahoma City for match 7 Sunday to have the chance to hit their tickets for the Western Conference final.
