The Nuggets’ efforts to solidify a rotation by the playoffs shouldn’t be too hindered by their pile-up of injuries last weekend.

Starting forwards Aaron Gordon (left calf) and Cam Johnson (back) practiced on Tuesday before the team flew to Utah, and coach David Adelman was hopeful both will be able to play Wednesday. Spencer Jones (right hamstring) and Zeke Nnaji (hip) did not practice, but they’re considered day-to-day.

“AG looked good today,” Adelman said. “His comfort level seemed like it was in a good place with the calf. … We didn’t go very hard today obviously, but yeah, it was good to see him out there.”

Any sign of discomfort experienced by Gordon in either of his legs is going to raise an automatic alarm with the team for the rest of the regular season. When he woke up Sunday feeling tightness in his calf, Denver decided not to test its luck, giving him the night off in a 116-93 win over the Warriors. It was the 75th game he’s missed over the last two seasons.

Johnson’s back spasms that sidelined him during the second half of that game aren’t a long-term concern, but they have “popped up on me,” as he described it, twice in the last month now. He briefly left a game in Oklahoma City for the same reason but was eventually able to return.

“It’ll ease up. In OKC, it eased up enough for me to go back. (Sunday), it didn’t,” Johnson said Tuesday. “By the time I felt like I needed to be back, the guys were taking care of business and were on a run. So it gave me a lot of peace of mind that we had that one covered. … Kind of just goes away over the next day or so. Just need a little bit of compression.”

Adelman has said his goal in the final stretch of the regular season is to nail down a rotation he’ll feel comfortable playing in the playoffs, but the Nuggets (48-28) have still played only two games with everyone available. Gordon, Johnson and Jones have all been part of that rotation recently, while Nnaji entered as an impromptu backup off the end of the bench Sunday when Jones had hamstring tightness. Adelman has been using Jones, Tim Hardaway Jr., Bruce Brown and Peyton Watson as his everyday bench group, with occasional minutes sprinkled in for Julian Strawther.

As the Nuggets seek their seventh consecutive win Wednesday, Watson is hoping to increase his playing time for the first time since he returned from a hamstring injury. The team has tried to keep him as close as possible to 20 so far, but Watson’s focus is on improving his conditioning before the playoffs. For a 21-game stretch before his injury, he was averaging 36.2 minutes per night.

“It’s been tough. It’s been frustrating with the minutes restriction. But it is what it is what it is, and it probably is best for my health,” he said. “I think we’re looking to ramp me up in the next game, maybe knock my minutes up some. So I’m looking forward to that.”

Watson’s first four games back have been up and down. He combined for an efficient 35 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and no turnovers in the first two. Then he committed six turnovers in the next two, an apparent stepback combined with a 5-for-16 shooting clip. The Nuggets will need him most at the defensive end in the playoffs, though his secondary shot creation has been an asset throughout the year when starters have been injured.

“This is the longest I’ve ever been out, so I thought once I got over the hump of being back that I was gonna stop having problems with my body,” he said. “The first game I came back, I felt amazing. The second game I came back, I felt amazing. But the third and fourth game, I’m like, ah, I kind of feel like how I did some of those days during the rehab process. So I think just, I saw the light at the end of the tunnel. But I didn’t realize how I was still working and grinding and rehabbing to get back to where I want to be ultimately.”