MINNEAPOLIS — Asked how his first platelet rich plasma therapy session felt on his left knee, Kenyon Martin used an expletive in quite a descriptive way — alas, you won’t read it in newsprint.
The power forward said Wednesday he isn’t sure when his next PRP therapy session will be and said “we’ll see how it works,” in reference to the first session Monday. The therapy takes place at Vail’s Steadman Hawkins Clinic, and it’s possible Martin could be out for a couple of weeks.
Johan Petro again started for Martin on Wednesday at Minnesota (Petro, Denver’s only 7-footer, took the tipoff). Asked what he brings with Martin out, reserve post Chris Andersen deadpanned: “I bring some more injuries. My back and my knee, man, I’ve been trying to get the necessary treatment and strength and conditioning to get it back to 100 percent.”
That said, Andersen looked quite aerodynamic on one particular second-quarter play, when he caught an inbounds pass for an alley-oop dunk.
Still out.
The big injury talk surrounding the Nuggets is about Martin, but Ty Lawson’s injured shoulder is still a big issue — it kept him out Wednesday and possibly Friday at New Orleans.
“It’s day to day now,” the reserve point guard said. “It doesn’t hurt a lot, I’m moving it now, there’s just one spot (in my shoulder) that catches every time I dribble and make a move. So I’m trying to work it out. . . . Once it stops catching, then I’ll be able to play.”
Anthony Carter has played Lawson’s minutes in the last four games, all Nuggets victories. He’s put up nights of four points and 12 assists, 12 points and seven assists, seven points and six assists and, finally, four points and eight assists against Minnesota.
Benjamin Hochman, The Denver Post
