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Aaron Gordon says that the Hamstring injury would have excluded 2-3 games if Nuggets had progressed: “I gave everything”

Aaron Gordon says that the Hamstring injury would have excluded 2-3 games if Nuggets had progressed: “I gave everything”

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Also when the Denver Nuggets fell in a semi -finals from Game 7 Conference in Oklahoma City Thunder, Nugget's striker Aaron Gordon was ready to put his body jeopardized.

Gordon played a thigh tribes of 2-class 2 with the defeat of 125-93 and started the game, even though they originally play as doubtful. The 29-year-old striker said after the game that he knew the risks of playing the pain and was ready to accept it.

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When asked whether he could continue to play if the nuggets had won and progressed, he would probably have had to expose two or three games because he would have been enforced on Sunday.

“That was likely. At least for two or three games in the next round. So I said, maybe I can get through it and then rest a little, come back later in the next series,” said Gordon.

It was a risk that he was ready to bring Denver to the conference final.

“I knew the risks, but I wanted to be out there for my team,” said Gordon. “I gave everything.”

Gordon said there was “never doubts” that he would play despite his injury, but the MRI showed “something worse than what I felt”. As a result, he has spent the last few days trying to try various treatments to prepare for the season.

“Everything I could do: hot, cold, contrasting, massage, hyperbar, everything I could possibly do, just so that I could be out there and fight for my team,” said Gordon.

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Gordon said that he didn't feel much during the game, but later admitted that he couldn't sprint at all. He ended with eight points and 11 rebounds.

“I just wish I had played better,” added Gordon.

Nugget's interim head coach David Adelman did not seem to agree and praised Gordon's commitment in his press conference after the game.

“Aaron Gordon is incredible,” said Adelman and noticed the intensive circumstances that Gordon held out. “That was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. … It is just proof of its toughness.”

Gordon found that part of the reason for his thigh injury is the busy Nach season plan of the NBA. Teams often only get one day between Playoff games. If the Nuggets had won, the next series would have returned on Tuesday with just one day off.

“A day of travel and a day of recovery, only two days, I think that the product of the game would be much better,” said Gordon. “Just to give all of these professional athletes just another day of rest, and they would see a higher level of basketball. Probably fewer blowouts.”

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Gordon stated the number of injuries for top-class players during the playoffs and mentioned Stephen Curry's thigh injury, who held him out of the last four games of the Warriors and the Achilles injuries of the season for Damian Lillard and Jayson Tatum. In a similar way, Tatum's teammate Jaylen Brown reports on a partially torn meniscus in the past few months.

“You saw it in the league,” said Gordon. “There are people in the league who suffer from fatigue -based injuries because the games are so closely stacked.

“It would be nice for one or two more rest days in the post -season just so that we can come back fresh and take part in competitions,” he added.

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