SALT LAKE CITY — The shorthanded Nets have been wanting ahead to getting Joe Harris again proper after the All-Star break. However that’s no certain factor, with Harris’ agent telling The Submit there’s an opportunity he may need one other ankle surgical procedure.
“We’re simply evaluating. He’s working his means again, he’s rehabbing. However we’re simply attempting to determine what’s going to be the very best plan of action. We now have to return to that call,” Precedence Sports activities’ Mark Bartelstein advised The Submit. “So I can’t actually provide you with a definitive reply, as a result of we simply don’t have it but of what we’re going to do.
“So it’s attainable that there could possibly be another process he may do that may repair the ankle as soon as and for good. However we’re undecided if we want that or not. So the long-term prognosis is nice, it’s not gonna be an issue. But it surely’s simply do we have to do one thing extra proper now or not, and we’re simply attempting to determine that out.”
Harris hasn’t performed since getting harm within the Nets’ blowout win over the Thunder on Nov. 14. He had ankle surgical procedure on Nov. 29, with the expectation that he’d be again in 4 to eight weeks.
However Harris suffered a setback whereas attempting to return. And now, after having missed 9 weeks, the subsequent week or two will probably be pivotal in figuring out whether or not his ankle responds and he can play or whether or not one other process is required.
“We’re simply always sort of evaluating it. He’s attempting to work again and dealing actually onerous at it, and we’re simply attempting to determine it out,” Bartelstein advised The Submit. “It’s simply it’s both his ankle goes to reply and he’ll have the ability to play proper now, or there is likely to be one little extra process we have to just do to get it utterly proper. And we’re simply attempting to determine that out.
“I feel within the subsequent week or so we’ll have a greater feeling of what we’re going to do.”
The Nets have missed Harris’ ground spacing. Their efficient discipline objective proportion of .563 within the 423 minutes he performed dipped to .530 with him off the courtroom.
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The Nets’ Saturday recreation at Golden State was ABC’s prime Saturday prime-time recreation in three years. It averaged a 1.8 ranking and three.17 million viewers, marking the most-watched version of the Saturday evening collection since Warriors-Sixers in 2019.
Former New Jersey Nets head coach Invoice Fitch handed away Wednesday on the age of 89.
The group tweeted the next assertion: “We're saddened to listen to of the passing of former Nets head coach Invoice Fitch. Invoice had an amazing influence on the sport of basketball and the Nets group. Our ideas and condolences are with the Fitch household throughout this tough time.”
Fitch, a two-time NBA Coach of the 12 months (1976, 1980) who additionally helmed the Cavaliers, Celtics, Rockets and Clippers, guided the Nets into the 1992 playoffs with Drazen Petrovic, Derrick Coleman and Kenny Anderson. Fitch coached the Larry Hen-led Celtics to the 1981 NBA championship.
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