The upside, if you’re a Nuggets fan, of a rotation that could be missing Nikola Jokic?
More Bol Bol!
“If, for some reason, (Jokic) is not available (Wednesday), then, obviously, like we’ve done for six-and-a-half years (here), somebody else has got to step up,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said Tuesday of the Joker, the NBA MVP who could be forced to miss Wednesday’s home game vs. Indiana because of his late-game shove of Miami’s Markieff Morris.
Malone added that a frontcourt minus the NBA’s MVP would feature a lot more of veteran forwards JaMychal Green, Jeff Green and Aaron Gordon in the post, and “maybe some guys like Bol Bol (and) Zeke Nnaji that haven’t had a great chance to play yet are going to have a chance to get out there and play rotational minutes.