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.

The 2024-25 NBA season officially came to an end for the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night. Aaron Gordon was not happy about it. The Nuggets were blown out in a one-sided 125-93 ball game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night.