Aaron Gordon identified one way in which his team could have been better suited to knock off the No. 1 seed during his postgame commentary and it bucked the conventional wisdom that the NBA playoffs are too spaced out.

Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic urged his star teammate, Aaron Gordon, to sit out Game 7 against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

And then, on Sunday, Aaron Gordon played through a hamstring injury as the Denver Nuggets were eliminated by the Minnesota Timberwolves. Gordon suffered that injury on Thursday night in Game 6. He played again roughly 60 hours later on Sunday afternoon.