While the Denver Nuggets have seeingly gotten back on track, they have done it without Aaron Gordon. The power forward has been out with a calf strain and remains on the injury report ahead of the Nuggets’ Sunday night matchup with the Dallas Mavericks.

Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic and forward Aaron Gordon are not playing in the team's home game against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night.

Aaron Gordon's calf injury has sidelined the Denver Nuggets star for seven games. Find out more about his recovery and status.

The Nuggets have a number of players listed on the NBA injury report for Tuesday night's game against the Mavericks.

Nikola Jokic was ruled out for the game with an elbow injury shortly before tip-off. In his postgame press conference Nuggets head coach Mike Malone said the three-time NBA MVP suffered the injury in warmups. He claimed it "popped up last minute." Malone had no word on how serious the injury could be as he hadn't spoken to trainers yet.

The Nuggets got some bad news prior to Wednesday's game against the Rockets. Not only was Aaron Gordon ruled out with right calf injury management an hour before Denver hosted Houston in a battle of top-four teams in the Western Conference,

Going into Wednesday night, the anticipation between the Denver Nuggets game against the Houston Rockets was huge. Both teams are on a four-game winning streak