6:15pm: Today’s MRI confirmed that the injury is a Grade 3 sprain and Jeffries’ status will be updated in six weeks, the Kings announced in a press release.
3:40pm: Kings wing DaQuan Jeffries suffered a setback during the process of rehabbing a back injury, and has sustained a Grade 3 left ankle sprain, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic, who tweets that Jeffries will miss an “extended period” of time.
Jeffries, who has been sidelined since the preseason due to back soreness, suffered the injury during a scrimmage when he came down on someone’s foot, per James Ham of NBC Sports California (Twitter links). He underwent an MRI today, and while the Kings have yet to issue a formal update, Charania’s report suggests that MRI showed the Grade 3 sprain.
Jeffries, 23, spent his rookie season in 2019/20 on a two-way contract with the Kings. He saw limited action, averaging 3.8 PPG and 1.4 RPG in 13 games (10.8 MPG), but impressed the team enough to earn a promotion to the 15-man roster and a fully guaranteed salary for 2020/21. He had been slated to have a “key rotation role” this season, says Charania.
No timeline has been set for Jeffries’ return so far, but as Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee writes, a Grade 3 ankle sprain typically requires about four to six weeks to heal. Kings guard De’Aaron Fox suffered the injury last season and missed 17 games. If Jeffries faces a similar recovery timeline, he likely won’t make his season debut until February.
4 teams are already playing lotto
Kings
Grizzlies
Wolves
Thunder
Rockets if trade Harden
Kings look good.
Fake king
Kings look real good
Let’s see how they look against Houston who get back Wall, EG, & Boogie.
Interesting game. In the first game…. I think good change for Rockets. Back to back is to much for player with 7 days quarantine. Second game go on kings
Kings need to give whiteside a role like he had in Portland
No way. I like him, but he is a slowly defense playey, with don’t high defense IQ. He don’t can plying defense. 2-3 Blocks and a little bit rebounding are don’t enough. Holmes is the better center. Defense, energy and high % in the offense.
I watch every Kings games and 10-13 minutes are Okey for Whiteside. Not more
Agree with you Bc1219, Whiteside needs to play more.
You can see that from POR, so far Nurkic has been horrible, so much so that even Kanter is playing more than him, as I always said POR failed the playoffs last year for playing Nurkic ahead of Whiteside & this year they will struggle to make it into the playoffs for choosing Nurkic, they are a pretty poor team.
Nutkic have upside, shooting, IQ, good moves. Hassan is long and have athletic. Athletic is important but one two skill more find I Okey. Nutkic is the better player
I agree except Holmes is better than either.
Nurkic really wound down with increased PT.
Kings2 indicates Whiteside has a similar problem, which is not unusual for bigs. But Holmes has energy.