While the public got the most important injury news regarding Nikola Jokic early Tuesday morning, the first report didn’t come with any medical diagnosis. But now, Shams Charania of ESPN has officially reported that Jokic has a bone bruise in his left knee after the hyperextension, but that all of his ligaments are intact.
We knew that Jokic hyperextended his knee, but that’s just the action that caused the injury, not the actual injury itself. A bone bruise could have been assumed once it was announced that Jokic would be reevaluated in four weeks following the MRI, but still, it was odd that the original update featured no specific injury.