Nets guard Kyrie Irving underwent arthroscopic surgery in New York today to relieve the impingement in his right shoulder, the team announced in a press release. Irving, who is expected to make a full recovery, will miss the rest of the season, the Nets confirmed.
A report nearly two weeks ago had indicated that Irving would undergo a procedure on his shoulder and be sidelined for the remainder of the 2019/20 campaign, so today’s update was expected.
It has been a lost first season in Brooklyn for Irving, who was limited to just 20 games due to health issues. The star guard, who turns 28 later this month, put up some of the best numbers of his career when he was on the court, averaging 27.4 PPG, 6.4 APG, and 5.2 RPG with a .478/.394/.922 shooting line.
Even without Irving and Kevin Durant, Brooklyn is in position to earn a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Despite their current four-game losing streak, the Nets remain four games ahead of the ninth-seeded Wizards. The team likely won’t last long in the postseason, but will head into the 2020/21 season with higher expectations, as both Irving and Durant are on track to return to action in the fall.
One has to wonder if Kevin Durant is ever going to make a full recovery from his achilles injury. It’s rare that anyone in the sports world really does, especially bigger players, as we’ve seen with Boogie over the past year. Plus KD is 2 years older than Cousins. So if he fails to return to being the dominant player he once was with OKC and Golden State, it could end up being a complete disaster for the Nets.
Are you going to post this nonsense on every Nets related post?
Chill.
Yeah, MWP. Obsessive. Every remotely relared article since July.
Rough signing.
I’m hoping it is a complete disaster since they didn’t want to play at MSG
You seem a bit bitter, right? I mean no one wants to go to the Knicks, you should respect that, what is not ok is when a good player wants to go the Knicks & play for Dolan.
A real shame for Kyrie & Brooklyn, I never been a big fan of him, but last year he played much better & this season he was totally fantastic when he played, for sure is becoming the big star player that everybody always said, though I always thought he was pretty disappointing in Cleveland & his first year in Boston, but now he is playing so much better.