Gordon suffered that injury on Thursday night in Game 6. He played again roughly 60 hours later on Sunday afternoon. It was a valiant effort as he pulled in 11 rebounds in defeat, but he was visibly hobbled. A number of players were throughout this round.

Aaron Gordon identified one way in which his team could have been better suited to knock off the No. 1 seed during his postgame commentary and it bucked the conventional wisdom that the NBA playoffs are too spaced out.

Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic urged his star teammate, Aaron Gordon, to sit out Game 7 against the Oklahoma City Thunder.