{"id":571942,"date":"2026-01-31T01:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/571942\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:40:15","slug":"is-nikola-jokic-playing-sunday-injury-update-for-nuggets-vs-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/571942\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Nikola Jokic playing Sunday? Injury update for Nuggets vs Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time NBA MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/players\/nikola-jokic\/830650\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nikola Jokic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nikola Jokic<\/a> plans to return to the court on Friday for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Denver Nuggets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Denver Nuggets<\/a>\u2019 game against the visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/summary\/2914869\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Clippers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a>, ESPN reported.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic, who officially is listed as questionable for Friday\u2019s game, has been sidelined for one month after sustaining a bone bruise in his hyperextended left knee during the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/summary\/2915210\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nuggets\u2019 147-123 loss to the host Miami Heat;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nuggets\u2019 147-123 loss to the host Miami Heat<\/a> on Dec. 29. The star center limped off the court in discomfort after injuring his knee in the closing seconds of the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Jokic, 30, also is available to play in <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/summary\/2914874\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sunday\u2019s game against the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sunday\u2019s game against the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> and will be eligible for season awards.<\/p>\n<p>Despite missing one month of action, Jokic still leads the NBA with 16 triple-doubles. He is averaging 29.6 points, 12.2 rebounds and 11.0 assists in 32 games (all starts) this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Field Level Media<\/p>\n<p>When are NBA teams required to submit injury reports?<\/p>\n<p>NBA teams must report player injuries and illnesses by 5 p.m. local time the day before each game, unless it&#8217;s the second day of a back-to-back, which would require teams to report information by 1 p.m. local time on game day. Reports are updated every 15 minutes on game days.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Thunder at Nuggets<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">TIPOFF: 8:30 p.m. Sunday at Ball Arena in Denver (NBC, Telemundo and Peacock)<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oklahoman.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/thunder\/2026\/01\/30\/nikola-jokic-injury-update-nuggets-thunder-nba\/88440700007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Thunder vs Nuggets injury update: Will Nikola Jokic play Sunday night?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Thunder vs Nuggets injury update: Will Nikola Jokic play Sunday night?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic plans to return to the court on Friday for the Denver Nuggets\u2019 game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,135,189,6,1408,253,302,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-571942","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-los-angeles-clippers","13":"tag-miami-heat","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-teams","16":"tag-nikola-jokic","17":"tag-nuggets","18":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571942","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=571942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}