{"id":509656,"date":"2026-01-01T10:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/509656\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T10:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:38:36","slug":"nuggets-jonas-valanciunas-unable-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/509656\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets&#8217; Jonas Valanciunas: Unable 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> (calf) did not return to Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Raptors. He finished with 17 points (5-6 FG, 7-8 FT), nine rebounds, four assists, one steal and three blocks in 23 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Valanciunas started this game for Nikola Jokic (knee) with Denver&#8217;s franchise player expected to miss several weeks. Valanciunas started off hot, but he suffered a calf strain and hobbled to the locker room, never to return &#8212; he was deemed as questionable to return to the floor. If the big man ends up missing time, the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/DEN\/denver-nuggets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuggets<\/a> will likely turn to DaRon Holmes after he put in a productive shift to close this game out.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valanciunas (calf) did not return to Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Raptors. He finished with 17 points (5-6 FG,&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-509656","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\/115819414453263301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509656","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=509656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509656\/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=509656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}