JULY 10: Per an official announcement from the team, a further evaluation of Monk’s medical imaging by Hornets’ team physicians has uncovered that Monk’s right thumb is not fractured. Accordingly, Monk’s status will now be listed as day-to-day.
JULY 7: Hornets guard Malik Monk fractured his right thumb in Friday’s summer league game and will be sidelined six to eight weeks, tweets Rick Bonnell of The Charlotte Observer. Monk suffered the injury late in a victory over the Thunder and was in street clothes at today’s practice (Twitter link).
It’s a frustrating end to summer league action for Monk, who put on a show with 15 points in the first quarter of Friday’s game. He had to sit out the 2017 summer league because of an ankle injury that bothered him for most of the offseason and may have contributed to his slow start in the NBA. The 11th pick in the 2017 draft, Monk appeared in 63 games during his first season, averaging 6.7 points per night and shooting just 36% from the field.
Even if his recovery takes the full eight weeks, Monk should be ready for the start of training camp in late September.
It doesn’t matter if this guy breaks all the bones in his body, cause he’s making the hof right?
Dionis I applaud you. You have legit fans my man.
Healthy or not he’s a bust. Volume scorer who takes possessions off and is super streaky. No thanks
Bro he just turned 20 lol. Take it down a notch with the hot takery
I get it dude haha but he looked like a streetballer at Kentucky. He kills the flow of the offense when he feels like he’s not scoring.
You just described a lot of very good nba players, including Jamal Crawford, Lou Williams, etc. monk still had the potential to be one of those. He’s probably never gonna be a star, but it was kinda silly to ever have thought he was. Not a lot of 2’s that size who ever end up being franchise guys.
Few teams collect pieces without a plan more comprehensively than the Hornets. Monk was drafted about right (maybe a little high) for what he was, but by the absolute wrong team. He was then (and now I guess) a boom or bust candidate on the point. He didn’t get to play that position last year and is further away of minutes there this season. If a rebuilding team has minutes at this spot, he’s worth a look – when his 4th year option is declined in a few years.
Unfortunately, hes got a Lou William’s ceiling. He was a true baller in HS and College.
Preach. Although that wouldn’t be a bad ceiling at all, for his pick value it’s bad.
What hurts is having a chance to take d. Mitchell and saying, “nah let’s take monk.”
He just needs a chance, last year for some reason Clifford didn’t wanna use the young players in his team, it cost him his job. You cannot leave out systematically guys like Monk or Willy, Charlotte hasn’t got many youngsters unfortunately, just old guys, you need to get the most out of the youth & future in your team, specially if you were never gonna make the playoffs, & this year they are farther away from it. They should just go for a full rebuilt. At least they have an underrated good center in Willy & a solid backup in Cody Zeller, not too old & a couple guys like Monk & Bridges, so hopefully they can start the youth movement.
They didn’t know they were never going to make the playoffs. It was 50/50 for a long time and it was not the time to put struggling kids on a platform.
Lol how you think Willy is better than Zeller. Willy may not even be a keeper.
Clifford did not win sufficiently for the roster cost. That’s why coaches get fired. They were set up to compete, not rebuild. Now who knows.
Sorry but I didn’t realize Zeller was an all-star type of center, seariously you are funny if you think he is better than Willy. His numbers for what he plays are really good, Zeller has never made it, Kaminsky not done as well as I thought he would & Biyombo a joke of a player, so yes Willy is the only big with a good projection to be a solid player in this league, I can see becoming a bit like Marc Gasol, is improving his shot, good passer, good passion, works hard, what is not to like about him? Maybe you just don’t like euro guys.
This is one debate where we can hope to see the results with conditions in common! Willy vs Cody. And Bismack too! Anyone want Biyombo?
Awesome news. Hope he gets in 1 more summer league game if possible