The Washington Wizards quietly have a nice young team, but you’d never know it. Injuries have prevented them from reaching their full potential. If last season began when John Wall returned from injury (which, of course it didn’t), they would’ve been a playoff team.
This year, they’ve had to deal with injuries from Nene and rookie Otto Porter, who hasn’t seen the court yet. You can now add Bradley Beal to that mix as well.
Bradley Beal knew something was wrong with his right leg after the Wizards’ last game, a victory vs. the New York Knicks. He’d played four games in five days. His jump shot had fallen flat because the lift wasn’t the same.
Turns out, he has the same stress injury to the same leg but in a different location, the Wizards revealed before Tuesday’s game vs. the Los Angeles Lakers at Verizon Center (CSN, 7 p.m. ET). President Ernie Grunfeld said the team was being “cautious and pro-active” in putting Beal on the shelf.
“It’s been lingering for about a week. I thought it was calf soreness for a while. Then it kind of escalated a little bit more. It felt like it felt the same way, similar to what it did last year, as far as the doctors touching it, pushing it. I ended up getting the MRI yesterday. It was definitely some stress reaction. It’s not the same injury as last year. It’s not a re-injury or anything like that.”
H/T: CSN Washington
