Injury

The Houston Rockets don’t have to worry about soldiering on without James Harden for much longer. He’s nearing a return from his Grade 2 left hamstring strain. From ESPN 97.5 in Houston’s Kelly Iko: James Harden is nearing a return to the court and “should be back soon, anytime next week”, according to a member [...]

Gordon Hayward had one of the more grotesque leg injuries that we have seen in the NBA for a while on opening night when the Celtics took on the Cavaliers in Cleveland. While most would safely assume that Hayward was done until next fall, there have been rumors that have popped up at times over [...]

The Houston Rockets just became Chris Paul’s team for the next few weeks. The Rockets superstar shooting guard and potential MVP favorite at the moment, James Harden, will miss at least two weeks of action as he recovers from a grade 2 hamstring strain suffered in the Rockets-Lakers game on Sunday night. [tweet https://twitter.com/TheRocketsWire/status/947997919784980481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] This [...]

Things went from bad to worse for the Orlando Magic. After being the surprise team in the NBA the first few weeks of the season, the Magic are now 11-23. They will also now be without one of their two best players in Nikola Vucevic. Vucevic was diagnosed with a fractured first metacarpal on his [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers will be without their starting center for at least three weeks. Brook Lopez injured his ankle in the 2nd quarter of the Lakers 116-114 overtime loss to the Warriors on Kobe double jersey retirement night and X-rays showed that he has a moderate sprain in his right ankle. Here is a [...]

Gordon Hayward continues to make progress in his recovery from a dislocated left ankle and fractured tibia—loads of progress, actually. Most recently, on Wednesday, Hayward divulged that doctors have cleared him to move around without his walking boot on a (hopefully) indefinite basis. As he told reporters, per ESPN.com’s Chris Forsberg: “The process is always [...]

It appears the New Orleans Pelicans have been hit with the injury bug once again. This time with the Grindfather and the gritty, tough defensive extraordinaire Tony Allen. Allen will miss the next three to four weeks with a fibula fracture. [tweet https://twitter.com/HoopsRumors/status/940698603374379009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Allen joins Solomon Hill, Alexis Ajinca and Anthony Davis (for the moment) [...]

The losses just keep on coming for the Los Angeles Clippers. That is, the personnel losses. The Clippers actually won a game on Monday, taking down the streaking Toronto Raptors in what represented Milos Teodosic’s first dose of NBA action in almost two months following a bout fasciitis. But, just as the Clippers were welcoming [...]

More bad news for Nerlens Noel in a contract year. The Mavericks 23-year-old center who has already fallen out of the regular rotation and is only averaging four points and four rebounds in 12 minutes per game, will now be out of action for four to six weeks after undergoing surgery on his thumb. Here [...]

Fans in Phoenix can breath a sigh of relief. Their pride and joy, 21-year-old shooting guard Devin Booker will only miss a few weeks and does not have any damage to the strained abductor injury that he suffered late in the 4th quarter of the Suns 126-113 loss in Toronto on Tuesday night. Here is [...]