Jusuf Nurkic never strays too far from the court. The second-year Nuggets center is drawn to whatever action is happening on the team's Pepsi Center practice court. And right now there's plenty of it, as the Nuggets' young players are preparing for summer league.
But Nurkic has enough work of his own to do. He's rehabbing after surgery in May to repair a partially torn left patella tendon and that's going to cost him a summer in which he hoped to work on his game.
Though the timetable is in the four-month range, his return date is unknown.