Author of 11 points and 7 rebounds in 25 minutes against the Clippers, the unfortunate DaRon Holmes II has already finished the Las Vegas Summer League, but also and above all his season! Twenty-second pick in the Draft, the Nuggets rookie had joined the locker room complaining about his right foot, and apparently his heel.
In the evening, the axe fell: The Athletic revealed that the former Dayton center suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon, and that means his season is over! For this type of injury, you can expect to miss between 9 and 12 months.
This is obviously a hard blow for the player, especially since it is always difficult to recover from such an injury. It is also a disaster for the Nuggets who had drafted him, and were counting on him in their rotation.
In this meeting, lost by the Nuggets (88-78), we will remember, on the Clippers side, the 36 points of Jordan Miller (48th choice of the 2023 Draft) and the double-double of Moussa Diabate with 11 points and 10 rebounds. In Denver, Julian Strawther had a lot of fun: 25 points on 7 out of 19 shots.
