Three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokić plans to return to action for the Nuggets on Friday against the Clippers following a month’s absence due to injury, according to Shams Charania of ESPN. Jokić has been sidelined since Dec. 29, when he hyperextended his left knee just before halftime of Denver’s 147-123 loss to the Heat.
Jokić also suffered a bone bruise in his left knee, an injury that was initially expected to cost him about four weeks, a forecast that proved correct. The Nuggets (32-16) and third in the Western Conference, went 10-6 in Jokić’s absence, though there’s no universe in which the team isn’t made better by the return of arguably the best player in the world.
