Colts could get Luck back on practice field this week Nuggets headed in right direction with youthful nucleus
Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano says there’s a chance Andrew Luck could return to practice Wednesday.
Pagano already has Luck ruled Luck out of Sunday
night’s game at Seattle. Still, it would be a major milestone in Luck’s recovery from offseason shoulder surgery.
The franchise quarterback missed all of the team’s offseason workouts, all of training camp and the entire preseason before he was activated from the physically unable to perform list on Sept. 2.
But the most significant indication Luck’s return is close came when Pagano did not rule him out of practice this week — something he did each of the past two Mondays.
Luck had surgery to repair a partially torn labrum in his throwing shoulder.
Paul Millsap says the Denver Nuggets are a top-five team even in the ultra-competitive Western Conference.
The All-Star forward was signed to help the Nuggets make the playoffs for the first time since 2012-13.
Millsap said Monday that he’s impressed by what he sees out of a youthful team that includes up-andcomer Nikola Jokic, who arrived at camp 10 pounds lighter, and Jamal Murray, the sharpshooting guard who’s healed from surgery to repair injuries to his core muscles.
General manager Tim Connelly likes the trajectory of a team that improved by seven games last season and narrowly missed the playoffs.
Connelly pumped the brakes on expectations and maintained it’s important to take steps because if one is skipped, “maybe you miss that window where you can be a viable championship contender.”