Injury

When Khris Middleton first suffered his hamstring tear ahead of the regular season, many wondered whether he would play at all this year. The initial timeline had him returning sometime in the spring, at which point the Milwaukee Bucks would surely be well outside the Eastern Conference playoff picture, having little or no incentive to [...]

So, um, uh-oh. Kristaps Porzingis has missed seven of the New York Knicks’ last 11 games while dealing with a sore Achilles, including each of the past four tilts. Achilles injuries are always fickle, but classifying it as sore implies an optimistic outlook. But that favorable prognosis, assuming there ever was one, may be gone. [...]

Last night, we may have seen the last of Rudy Gay in a Kings uniform. The 30-year-old combo forward, who is set to hit free agency this off-season and was set to earn one final big contract (likely elsewhere as he has made it known he does not want to return to the Kings), may [...]

For those Los Angeles Clippers fans who assumed the worst after Chris Paul left the team’s victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder with a left thumb injury on Monday, your fears have been confirmed. According to Dan Woike of the Orange County Register, Paul will miss the next six to eight weeks with a torn ligament in [...]

The Los Angeles Clippers are holding their breath, sort of. Chris Paul left late in the second quarter of the Los Angeles Clippers’ Tuesday night victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder with a sprained right thumb. He did not return, and though X-rays came back negative, the team is awaiting further news, per ESPN.com’s Andrew Han: [...]

Anthony Davis has only missed four games this season, but it feels like so much more—perhaps because he keeps being forced out of contests early with various injuries. During the New Orleans Pelicans’ loss to the Indiana Pacers, for instance, Davis left the floor in the third quarter following a scary fall and didn’t return [...]

The Utah Jazz just can’t stay healthy. Now that George Hill is back in the everyday lineup, it’s Rodney Hood’s turn to miss some time. He left the Jazz’s Saturday night victory over the Orlando Magic with what the team called a hyperextended right knee, but it looked much worse: [tweet https://twitter.com/ACLrecoveryCLUB/status/820658584895647745] Hood underwent an [...]

Jeremy Lin’s first season with the Brooklyn Nets has not gone according to plan. He has appeared in just 12 games all season, missing the other 25 with two different hamstring injuries. The latest hamstring injury has sidelined him for the team’s last seven games—all losses. And while the Nets have yet to provide a [...]

Blake Griffin hasn’t suited up since Dec. 18 after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right knee knee. The Los Angeles Clippers are hoping that changes in the near future—perhaps by the end of January. From ESPN.com’s Kevin Arnovitz: – Clippers forward Blake Griffin is on target for his return, coach Doc Rivers said Wednesday night. [...]

It has been a very up and down second season for the former No. 10 pick of the 2015 NBA Draft and collegiate national champion, Justise Winslow. He has at times looked like he was making the second-year leap into being a dependable starter. He had the best game of his young career on December [...]