Wilson Chandler set to make latest comeback for Denver Wilson Chandler has the comeback thing down. Now, he’d like to stick around for a while. Limited to four games this season while recovering from hip surgery, Chandler is set to return to the court Sunday night when the Denver Nuggets face the Golden State Warriors at Pepsi Center. Chandler, a versatile wing player, came back to Denver last spring after playing in China but appeared in eight games before being sidelined by pain in his left hip. He had surgery to repair a labral tear on April 30 and spent the offseason regaining his strength and mobility. After returning in time for Denver’s season-opener, Chandler played in only four games before realizing that his hip needed more time to heal. “It’s tough because you want to do a lot of things your mind tells you to do but your body can’t,” he said after a light workout Saturday. “You just want to go out and play good for the team, for yourself, for the fans. “People are asking you all the time, ‘What’s wrong? Why aren’t you playing?’ People on the outside really don’t know what’s going on, so people kind of criticize. That’s part of the game.” Chandler, 25, will be playing for the first since Nov. 12. He believes that the past two months have been essential to putting the injury behind him. “When I played those couple games at the beginning of the season, I wasn’t healthy. I wasn’t myself,” he said. “Now, I’m just getting my strength back and I feel pretty strong. I think now it’s just getting my wind back. I know (Sunday) I’ll be a little winded. I just have to fight through it.” Nuggets coach George Karl has been using 10 players in his rotation of late, and Chandler will be an added option for scoring and defense on the wing. “All of a sudden I have 12, 13 guys that could be on the court,” Karl said. “I don’t think anything is definitive with this team. The depth of this team is its strength and I don’t think anybody should feel secure in their minutes. That’s the way it probably should be.” That’s fine with Chandler, who doesn’t have a sense of entitlement as he prepares to return. “I wouldn’t want to come in right away and take somebody’s minutes who’s playing good when I haven’t played all season,” he said. “I wouldn’t want that to happen to me. I’d rather earn it than just have it given to me.” Chandler, who signed a multiyear contract with Denver last spring, credited the athletic training and strength-and-conditioning staff of Jim Gillen, Steve Hess, Dan Shimensky and Felipe Eichenberger for helping him return to the court. He also gave a nod to the coaching staff for their work. “Just the whole team, period,” he said. “I’m just appreciative that they stayed with me this long.” 本賽季金塊前鋒Wilson Chandler因臂部手術僅打了4場比賽， 他將在明天主場對勇士隊的比賽中複出。 Wilson Chandler動了手術之後整個休賽期都在 恢復自己的力量和移動能力。 雖然他準時在金塊隊本賽季揭幕戰中複出， 但是他僅打了4場比賽之後就感覺自己需要更 多的時間來恢復臂部傷勢。 “這種情況太讓人難受了，因為你心裡想著要去做很多事情， 可是你的身體狀況卻不允許你去做。”Wilson Chandler 在今天進行了輕度的訓練後接受採訪時說， “你只是想到場上去為球隊，為自己，為球迷打出漂亮的比賽。” 明天對戰勇士將會是Wilson Chandler自 2012年11月13日以來首次上場打球。 他相信過去兩個月的休息已經讓自己完全康復了。 “當我在賽季初參加的那些比賽時，我身體還沒康復， 那還不是我自己的真實水準。”Wilson Chandler說， “現在我正逐漸恢復自己的力量，並感覺很有勁。 我想我現在得慢慢恢復體能。我知道（明天對勇士） 我將會感覺有點體力不足，不過我還是得努力去克服這一點。” http://www.nba.com/nuggets/news/wilson-chandler-set-make-latest-comeback-denver --

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