UPDATE: Nikola Jokic's Status For Mavs-Nuggets Game

Nikola Jokic is listed as questionable for Friday's game.

May 12, 2024; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic (15) speaks with a reporter after defeating the Minnesota Timberwolves at game four of the second round for the 2024 NBA playoffs at Target Center. Mandatory Credit: Bruce Kluckhohn-Imagn Images / Bruce Kluckhohn-Imagn Images

UPDATE: Nikola Jokic is available (via ESPN's Shams Charania).

Sources: Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic – out since Nov. 10 due to personal reasons – will return to the lineup tonight vs. the Dallas Mavericks (10 pm ET, ESPN). Jokic and his partner welcomed a newborn son Thursday night. pic.twitter.com/OVPsT0f6ET

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 23, 2024

On Friday evening, the Denver Nuggets will host the Dallas Mavericks in Colorado.

For the game, the Nuggets could remain without their best player, as Nikola Jokic is listed as questionable due to personal reasons.

The two-time MVP has missed each of the previous three games, so this would be his fourth straight out of the lineup (if he doesn't play).

Via Mark Followill on Thursday: "Nikola Jokic is questionable for Mavs at Nuggets tomorrow night...been away with his wife and missed the last 3 games as she gives birth to their second child. He was not at practice today and head coach Michael Malone said there was not an update beyond that. Aaron Gordon is still out with a calf strain. Vlatko Cancar suffered a significant left knee injury Tuesday vs Memphis and is also out."

Nikola Jokic is questionable for Mavs at Nuggets tomorrow night...been away with his wife and missed the last 3 games as she gives birth to their second child. He was not at practice today and head coach Michael Malone said there was not an update beyond that. Aaron Gordon is…

— Mark Followill (@MFollowill) November 22, 2024

Jokic is averaging 29.7 points, 13.7 rebounds, 11.7 assists and 1.7 steals per contest while shooting 56.3% from the field and 56.4% from the three-point range in ten games.

Jokic holds down the No. 1 spot for the second-straight week in the @KIA MVP Ladder 💪

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— NBA TV (@NBATV) November 22, 2024

The Nuggets are 8-5 in their first 13 games, which has them as the fifth seed in the Western Conference.

Following Dallas, they will play their next game on Saturday when they visit LeBron James and the Lakers in Los Angeles.

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— Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) November 22, 2024

As for the Mavs, they are 8-7 in their first 15 games, which has them as the ninth seed in the Western Conference.

They have won three straight games.

Following Denver, the Mavs will visit Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat on Sunday evening in Florida.