The Denver Nuggets got some good-but-bad injury news about MVP center Nikola Jokic today. Jokic was injured on Monday night in Denver’s game versus the Miami Heat. Prognosis was initially uncertain but feared serious. [Today’s reports indicate](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47454834/nuggets-nikola-jokic-miss-4-weeks-hyperextended-knee) that Jokic hyperextended his knee. He will be reevaluated in four weeks. That’s an extended absence, but not season-ending.
_Jokic has a bone bruise in the hyperextended left knee as well, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania._
_It’s an obvious blow to the already short-handed Nuggets -- but is not a season-ending issue nor one that would require surgical repair. If Jokic misses a month, that means he would be sidelined for about 16 games but could be playing again before February’s NBA All-Star Game._
Jokic is currently averaging 30 points, 12 rebounds, and 11 assists in 35 minutes per game, having appeared in all 32 contests for the Nuggets this season. It’s a mark of how dominant he is that:
A. Those look like everyone else’s per-36-minute numbers at first glance, not per-game totals.
B. His actual per-36 numbers are actually _higher_ than that.
Denver currently stands at 22-10, third in the NBA’s ultra-competitive Western Conference. They are a single game behind the second-place San Antonio Spurs, a game ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets.