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For the second postseason in a row, the biggest storyline is the number of injuries to star players.
This year, Steph Curry, Jayson Tatum, Darius Garland, Evan Mobley, Donovan Mitchell, Jaylen Brown, and now Denver Nuggets star, Aaron Gordon, is the latest to suffer from a hamstring injury that made him questionable for Denver’s biggest game of the season: Game 7 against the OKC Thunder—the team with the best defensive rating and net rating on the season.
Despite the limp, Aaron Gordon played in Game 7, but he needn’t have bothered.
It wasn’t a game as much as a series of layup lines for the Thunder as they went on the bludgeon the Nuggets in a 125-93 victory to advance to the Western Conference Finals, where the Minnesota Timberwolves await them.
Aaron Gordon scored 8 points.
Nice.
Here’s Gordon after the game sharing his feelings about the NBA playoff schedule:
Aaron Gordon:
“I would really, really appreciate it if there were a couple of days in between games in the playoffs instead of every other day. The product of the game would be a lot better. You’ll see a higher level of basketball. Probably less blowouts” pic.twitter.com/oLxKiEG95N
— Oh No He Didn’t (@ohnohedidnt24) May 18, 2025
“I would really, really appreciate it if there were a couple of days in between games in the playoffs instead of every other day. The product of the game would be a lot better. You’ll see a higher level of basketball. Probably less blowouts.”
The NBA play-in started on April 15th—34 days ago.
We still have two whole ass rounds left before we declare a champion.
Aaron Gordon thinks there ought to be more days off between games, so the playoffs end when the NFL preseason is wrapping up at the end of August.
It’s my (super low-paying) job to watch the NBA and the playoffs being two months of games every single night is already life-consuming.
Stretch the playoffs all summer long and I don’t know who will be left paying attention when the champion is eventually crowned. It’s nice out, yo. I have shit to do.
And I get it, Aaron. The playoffs are hard. That’s kind of the whole point.
Now, we can talk about shortening the NBA season and trimming down the 82-game schedule.
Sure.
But yea man, sorry to Aaron Gordon for having to work for a couple hours every other night. Must be tough when those 6-figure direct deposits hit.
This whole mentality is exactly why the OKC Thunder won.
The Nuggets were obsessed with the refs and the schedule and forces outside of their control, while the Thunder were singularly focused on scoring more points than the Nuggets.
Good luck to the Denver Nuggets this summer. Maybe they’ll actually acquire talented players instead of relying solely on 36-year-old Russell Westbrook to be their lone bench player.
You have plenty of time of now, Aaron.
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