Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin is expected to play on Saturday night against the Spurs.
Martin has missed 18 games with patellar tendinitis in his left knee.
"Yes, I expect him to play and try to get him minutes," coach Adrian Dantley said Saturday morning. "We're going to bring him along slow and see how it goes. Maybe 20-25 minutes, five minutes a quarter, maybe one quarter go seven minutes."