Aaron Gordon injury could create a doomsday scenario for the Nuggets

Denver Nuggets v Oklahoma City Thunder - Game One | Sam Hodde/GettyImagesThe Aaron Gordon injury is bad, but not the end of the world as long as he can come back in 4-6 weeks and put this hamstring issue behind him. That’s certainly no guarantee, but the bigger issue might be what happens to their seeding in the meantime.

The general assumption through one month of the season has been that the Thunder and Nuggets are head and shoulders above the competition and on a collision course for an epic Western Conference Finals.

The only problem with that logic is that it assumes that OKC and Denver will each finish as top-three seeds in the West. But the West is loaded at the top, and now that the…