Injury

Larry Nance Jr. is a freakishly athletic and exciting young player in the NBA who was seemingly becoming more skilled and developed by the day. Unfortunately that development will have to be put on hold as Nance Jr. fractured his left hand in the 3rd quarter of the Lakers game in Portland Thursday night and [...]

Riding a four-game losing streak when you’re supposed to run away with the Eastern Conference is bad enough. Seeing Tristan Thompson go down with a leg injury and leave the arena on crutches in the process makes the situation worse. Alas, the Cleveland Cavaliers are now at this point. Thompson was ruled out of returning [...]

Gordon Hayward is slowly recovering from his dislocated left ankle and fractured tibia. While making an appearance on 98.5 the Sports Hub in Boston, Celtics head coach Brad Stevens said the All-Star forward is out of his post-surgery hard cast and in the infant stages of rehabilitation, per ESPN.com’s Chris Forsberg: Boston Celtics coach Brad Stevens [...]

First the Philadelphia 76ers didn’t see a problem with having Markelle Fultz play through his shoulder injury. Then they shut him down for three games to evaluate a situation that had deteriorated under their noses. Now they’ve announced the rookie point guard is out indefinitely because of said shoulder injury. Here’s the team’s announcement, courtesy [...]

It’s about damn time. Markelle Fultz has been playing through a shoulder injury, a setback that has also, it seems, caused him to adjust his shooting motion. The returns, naturally, have not been good, which left many people to wonder why the Philadelphia 76ers didn’t see a problem with playing him. Crap hit the fan [...]

No. No, no. No, no, no. Not Anthony Davis. Not another marque injury. Not again. Not this season. Please, no. Er, sorry. But injuries stink. And now Davis is dealing with a knee injury. He left the New Orleans Pelicans’ loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, and the situation was serious enough that he needed [...]

So much for the Houston Rockets being able to limit James Harden’s minutes. Part of what made Chris Paul’s arrival so appealing is what it meant for the team’s floor balance. Harden looked gassed by the end of Houston’s second-round loss to the San Antonio Spurs last year. Teaming up with Paul meant he wouldn’t [...]

Ban. Injuries. Perhaps we say this every year, but for the life of me, I cannot remember a more brutal opening week in the NBA than the one we’re still living through. Gordon Hayward and Jeremy Lin are done for the season. Draymond Green was/is dealing with some knee problems. Andre Iguodala couldn’t play in the [...]

Gordon Hayward suffered a dislocated left ankle and fractured tibia barely five minutes into his regular-season debut with the Boston Celtics. He underwent surgery last Thursday and is expected to miss the rest of the year. Oh, and lastly, he’s already started the rehab process. WAIT, WUT? Yep, it’s true. Hayward essentially began the recovery [...]

Jeremy Lin’s short time with the Brooklyn Nets has been riddled by injury, and nothing, apparently, is going to change. As first reported by ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, and then soon after announced by the team, Lin suffered a ruptured patellar tendon during Brooklyn’s opening-night loss to the Indiana Pacers and will miss the rest of [...]