shoulder injury

The Philadelphia 76ers welcomed one star back Wednesday night but lost another. Ben Simmons did not play in the second half against the Jazz after being diagnosed with what the team called a mild right shoulder sprain. He will be reevaluated Thursday in Denver. The injury appears to have happened in the first quarter when [...]

The Houston Rockets will not be entering the NBA playoffs unscathed. No team will, really, The push and pull and grind of an 82-game season always takes its toll. Many players aren’t beginning the postseason at 100 percent, or even at something close to 100 percent. But Luc Mbah a Moute won’t be beginning the [...]

Thursday night turned out to be a bittersweet one for the Boston Celtics and Kyrie Irving. On the one hand, the point guard was named as an All-Star starter, validating both himself and the team’s direction. On the other, he was unable to go for a nationally televised tilt with the Philadelphia 76ers—which Boston lost—due [...]

More bad news in what has been a rough season for Kawhi Leonard. The Spurs star small forward has only played in 8 games thus far this season and now is in line to miss more action because of an injury to his left shoulder in the Spurs victory over the Suns on Friday night. [...]

Remember when Markelle Fultz’s right shoulder injury wasn’t considered serious enough to pull him from the Philadelphia 76ers’ rotation? Well, we’re now nearly 20 games removed from the team officially shutting him down, and he still isn’t practicing, per The Athletic’s Derek Bodner: On October 29th, the #sixers said there was no structural damage in [...]

Plenty of people are worried about Markelle Fultz’s shoulder injury, which has, apparently, prompted him and the Philadelphia 76ers to tweak his shooting form. The result, through four games: 33 percent shooting from two-point range, no attempted threes and a 50 percent clip at the foul line. It would seem, then, as if profound concern [...]