{"id":508961,"date":"2026-01-01T02:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/508961\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:54:15","slug":"nuggets-jonas-valanciunas-questionable-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/508961\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets&#8217; Jonas Valanciunas: Questionable to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765822753_906_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/DEN\/denver-nuggets\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/339.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/1831124\/valanciunas\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valanciunas<\/a> is questionable to return to Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Raptors with a right calf strain, Vinny Benedetto of The Denver Gazette reports.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/DEN\/denver-nuggets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuggets<\/a> can&#8217;t seem to catch a break, as Valanciunas started this game in the absence of the injured Nikola Jokic (knee). If Valanciunas ends up missing time, DaRon Holmes is the next man up at center for the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valanciunas is questionable to return to Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Raptors with a right calf strain, Vinny Benedetto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,2825,6890,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-508961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-denvernuggets","12":"tag-fantasy-basketball","13":"tag-jonas-valanciunas","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nuggets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115817589281016803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}