With a flurry of trade rumors surrounding his future, Pelicans superstar Anthony Davis has been medically cleared to play from his left index finger fracture, tweets Shams Charania of The Athletic. However, New Orleans does not plan on playing Davis before Thursday’s trade deadline and will re-evaluate his status if he’s not dealt, per Charania (Twitter link).
Charania’s report comes after Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports wrote earlier today that Davis had hoped to play in Monday’s game against Indiana, but was held out of action by the Pelicans.
Davis, 25, has not played since January 18 when he suffered the injury to his left index finger. He was initially expected to miss one to two weeks until he was diagnosed with a fracture.
Prior to the injury, Davis was in the midst of another MVP-caliber season. In 41 games, the five-time All-Star is averaging career-highs with 29.3 PPG, 13.3 RPG and 2.6 BPG.
The five-time All-Star’s named has been mired in rumors since his demand to be traded went public. The Lakers have been the most active team in pursuit of Davis but reportedly “pulled out” of trade talks – at least for now – due to New Orleans’ high demands.
As we have previously relayed, Davis’ agent Rich Paul notified Pelicans’ brass that Davis would entertain signing long-term deals with the Knicks, Bucks and Clippers. The Celtics also maintain a strong interest but it does not appear to be mutual.
Oh boy, here we go… this is gonna be awk-ward.
It seems to me that with all the chips LA is gonna give up for AD… maybe they should keep some and use the rest to trade for Gasol and Conley? Those two with lebron and some of the current roster would be formidable.
Let him sit and address the situation in the summer.
Bench warmer?
What if ad went down with a fake serious injury to lower his stock?
You do realize they have fake doctors to examine fake injuries.
I mean kawhi got away with it why couldnt ad?
Right because they don’t have people trained to look into these things. If only there were a group of trained people that knew how people’s bodies functioned during an injury.
:cough: specialist.
The are such things such a psudeo pain in which nothing is wrong but people can have pain.
Dude just give it up
He doesn’t have to fake injuries. This dude gets hurt in warmups.
Good plan. But it seems he wants to be out there.
Are you going to leave this site if AD isn’t traded by Thursday like Paladin asked?
clearly AD isn’t interested in LA
Oblivious
He’ll be out a month with a sprained pinkie within a week of returning like always.