Serge Ibaka hasn’t played since March 14 due to a back injury but the Clippers’ big man could be in uniform on Friday. He’s been upgraded to questionable, Andrew Greif of the Los Angeles Times tweets. Ibaka has averaged 10.9 PPG and 6.7 RPG in his first season with the Clippers and could be a pivotal player in the postseason.
We have more news on the injury front:
- Wizards All-Star Bradley Beal won’t play against Cleveland on Friday due to a hamstring injury, the team tweets. The league’s second-leading scorer hasn’t played since last Saturday. Washington can clinch a spot in the play-in tournament with a victory tonight.
- Jazz All-Star guard Mike Conley told the media he’ll play the final two games of the regular season, including tonight’s tilt against the Thunder, Eric Walden of the Salt Lake Tribune writes. He’s been out since April 26 due to a right hamstring strain.
- The Nuggets’ Will Barton (hamstring) and PJ Dozier (right adductor) are not expected to return before the playoffs, coach Michael Malone told Mike Singer of the Denver Post (Twitter link). Barton, who has been out since April 23, is closer to returning than Dozier.
Wizards Cavs will be interesting. No Beal, but Cavs supposed to be tanking (someone gonna tell Love?). Verrrrrry interesting.
Man the slate tonight is soooooo sooooo bad!!!!
Go to sleep early and make sure to catch the 10 Am’s tomorrow
No real place to post this but damn that was a horrible call on Booker last night in a huge huge implication game for the whole WEST …..I wanted PHX to win but not like that, terrible, just terrible
Just another typical favoritism call by the league to help out LA.
The Rockets still managed to beat the Clippers (for Bill Worrell) down 10 players and then losing an 11th player in the second half.
THT traveling vs Houston was part 1 of this play in conspiration
Ibaka left raptors and got hurt…
Bad news for LAC with Ibaka back, Zubac has made the team a lot better, even DMC is doing more, just hope they keep Ibaka on the bench for most of the game, if they play him regularly the Clips will have another early playoff exit this year!