CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Juancho Hernangomez is not with the team on this four-game road trip after being diagnosed with mononucleosis and “could be out a couple of weeks,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said.
Malone explained the series of events that led to Hernangomez, the second-year forward, being out.
“To be honest, we were talking as coaches and as a staff that Juancho hadn’t looked like Juancho from last year,” Malone said. “The first reaction was: Well, he had a very busy summer. He played summer league with us, then he goes right back to Spain and plays a very long and demanding schedule with the national team.