leg injury

In a FIBA World Cup exhibition game that took place Wednesday in Toronto where Canada won 96-87 over Nigeria, Kelly Olynyk suffered a leg injury and did not return to the game. The injury occurred in the third quarter when Olynyk slipped and fell. According to Nick Nurse, he is scheduled to have X-rays on [...]

Klay Thompson won’t let his left leg injury prevent him from playing in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. This news comes after he and the Golden State Warriors were thrown for a bit of scare in Game 1. Midway through the first quarter, J.R. Smith collided with Thompson’s left leg. Thompson immediately fell to [...]

Otto Porter has not always looked like himself during the Washington Wizards’ first-round playoff series with the Toronto Raptors. He’s tallied over 30 minutes in four of the first five games, but he doesn’t look as comfortable moving off the ball on offense, and he’s fallen behind Toronto’s ball-handlers at times on the other end. [...]

Chris Paul is injured again. The All-Star point guard left early in the fourth quarter of the Houston Rockets’ Wednesday night loss to the Los Angeles Lakers with what the team deemed a strained left adductor. And not only did he not return, but head coach Mike D’Antoni was unable to provide any clarity on [...]

Hopefully none of you New York Knicks fans out there are expecting to see Tim Hardaway Jr. suit up anytime soon. Because it doesn’t sound like it’s happening. As relayed to us courtesy of Newsday‘s Barbara Barker, neither the Knicks nor Hardaway himself have a timetable for his return from a left leg injury: [tweet https://twitter.com/meanbarb/status/941451295759765504] [...]

Add Tim Hardaway Jr. to the list of injured New York Knicks players who don’t have a timeline for return. Kristaps Porzingis is currently on the shelf with an ankle injury, and the team isn’t quite sure how much time he’ll miss. The same can now be said for Hardaway, who has missed the Knicks’ [...]

Paul George knows what it’s like to lose an entire season to a leg injury. He also knows what it takes to regain form after the fact. George suffered a broken leg while playing with Team USA in 2014. Since his injury occurred over the offseason, he was able to return at the tail end [...]

When Gordon Hayward crumpled to the floor early in the Boston Celtics’ opening-night loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, everyone in Quicken Loans Arena knew. The fans, the players, the coaches—they all understood. Something was broken. Hayward’s season was over. It was a gruesome, soul-sundering sight to behold, made so much worse, for some reason, by [...]

During the fourth quarter of the San Antonio Spurs’ Game 2 drubbing of the Houston Rockets, Tony Parker went down with a left leg injury and needed to be carried off the court. It wasn’t a pretty sight. And the news afterward wasn’t any better. Though the Spurs didn’t clarify his status, head coach Gregg Popovich [...]

Now, about the Utah Jazz winning 50 games this season…that’s probably not going to happen. It’s not that the Jazz don’t have the talent to reach that mark. No, no, no. They’re just a magnet for injury bugs. Boris Diaw is the latest to fall victim. He will miss at least the next two weeks [...]