Hours before the Nuggets’ Sunday night game with the Bucks was set to tip off, NBA Insider Marc Stein emptied out his notebook full of intel and dropped a massive tidbit at the end for Denver fans. He led the final paragraph of his notebook by saying, “Early February increasingly looks like it could be the soonest that Nikola Jokiu0107 and Cam Johnson can realistically return to the Nuggets' lineup.”
Stein didn’t elaborate further or offer any more information about the two critical injury updates, but his pedigree and matter-of-fact tone lend credence to the idea that Jokic’s original timeline was accurate all along.