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After missing 16 games with a bone bruise in his hyperextended left knee, Nuggets star center Nikola Jokic is expected to return to action Friday night against the Clippers, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charnia.

It took two years of convincing, but Kawhi Leonard’s new game is supercharging the Clippers — and making them an unexpected threat in the loaded Western Conference.

Tim Bontemps and Brian Windhorst examine eight East contenders, and how a Giannis trade could alter the conference hierarchy.

Lonzo Ball doesn’t have to worry about rehabbing from a knee injury for the first time in a couple of seasons and is excited about his offseason trade to the Cleveland Cavaliers.