The Nets haven't any solutions concerning Ben Simmons’ current and future. They don’t even have any solutions concerning his latest previous or the primary hints at his again harm.
It's unclear if coach Steve Nash and firm are in the dead of night or just not flipping on the lights for the general public, however there isn't a readability on the best thriller for staff that already had a reasonably main one, with unvaccinated star Kyrie Irving nonetheless unable to play at residence.
No less than the Nets know the place they stand on Irving, whose hopes for full-time standing lie with the mayor’s workplace altering metropolis mandates as a result of he has proven no willingness to be vaccinated. With Simmons, who was acquired Feb. 10 within the James Harden commerce, however has but to make his Nets debut, there solely are clouds.
Simmons, who advised the Nets that he had again points shortly after his exercises started, acquired an epidural shot Tuesday supposed to alleviate ache and, the staff hoped, speed up the therapeutic course of. It usually takes a number of days for its impression to take impact. Three days later, is Simmons feeling higher?
“I don’t have any replace on that,” Nash stated earlier than the Nets beat the Path Blazers, 128-123, on Friday evening at Barclays Heart.
Has Simmons had an MRI examination?
“I consider he has, however I feel that’s previous information,” Nash stated of a beforehand unreported growth. “That was a pair weeks in the past.”
Did the examination come again clear?
“What does ‘clear’ imply?” Nash requested. “I feel he’s acquired a again … one thing together with his again.”
Corresponding to a pressure?
“Yeah,” Nash stated of an harm that usually has been termed as again “soreness” or “tightness.”
Simply 5 weeks after he was landed within the blockbuster deal that ushered Harden to Philadelphia,There isn't a timetable both for Simmons’ return to the courtroom or to observe. In keeping with Nash, Simmons had performed particular person exercises then encountered the “flare-up.” He has but to return to particular person exercises, which might be step one towards a ramp-up towards recreation motion.
The Nets usually don't permit their gamers to take the courtroom till they've had three high-intensity practices.
Simmons, 25, has a prolonged historical past of again points — that is the fourth time in two years his again has put him on the sideline — and is rapidly operating out of time on the season. The Nets have 11 regular-season video games left, and Irving might be eligible to play simply three of them. Even when Simmons performs this season, chemistry could possibly be an issue.
Requested what he would want to see from Simmons for him to return to observe, Nash stated: “That’s actually a query for the medical workers. I don’t know the ins and outs of his again harm.”
Seth Curry was wonderful in his return after lacking three video games with a left-ankle sprain. He scored 27 factors, however that doesn't imply his ankle is totally healed.
Curry stated he probably might be coping with the ailment all season and postseason. He hopes that staying off of it through the offseason will assist it heal.
Curry missed time each final season and this season after spraining his left ankle. The capturing guard missed 5 video games in January whereas with the 76ers with what the staff termed “ankle soreness.”
“It’s been bothering me some time,” Curry stated Friday morning on the shoot-around. “It’s in all probability not going to completely go away [until] the tip of the season.”
There isn't a date but on which the unvaccinated Irving can take the courtroom at Barclays Heart for the primary time this season.
The Nets acquired extra of the identical information regarding the non-public sector vaccine mandate within the first briefing from Dr. Ashwin Vasan, New York Metropolis’s new well being commissioner.
“I feel it’s indefinite at this level,” Vasan, who succeeded Dr. Dave A. Chokshi earlier this month, advised reporters Friday. “Individuals who have tried to foretell what’s going to occur sooner or later for this pandemic have repeatedly discovered egg on their face, as they are saying. I’m not going to do this right here in the present day.”
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