Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic says calf is “doing good,” keeps smiling through “bumps and bruises”

Nikola Jokic smiled Thursday when asked about getting battered and bruised over the course of a long NBA season. So there’s that. In fact, the Nuggets came across as fairly jovial on the whole following practice early Thursday afternoon at Ball Arena, despite having to wait out which opponent they’ll face — it’ll be the winner of Friday’s play-in game in Minneapolis between Minnesota and Oklahoma City — in their NBA Playoffs opener late Sunday night. “Doing good, going good,” Jokic, the reigning two-time NBA MVP, said of his calf tightness, which had forced him to sit out the regular-season…