An MRI on the injured right knee of Trail Blazers forward Larry Nance Jr. showed no significant damage, the team announced in a press release. While that’s good news for the Blazers and for Nance, who sustained the injury on Wednesday, the 29-year-old remains unavailable for the short term. According to the club, Nance will be reevaluated in one week.
Here are a few more injury updates from across the NBA:
- Zion Williamson will continue his rehab from offseason foot surgery away from the Pelicans, the team announced in a press release. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports that Williamson has moved his rehab to Portland, Oregon. The former No. 1 overall pick, who called the recovery process a “difficult” one, continues to only participate in partial weight-bearing activities, according to the club.
- The Bulls still aren’t ruling out the possibility of Patrick Williams returning from his left wrist injury by the end of the season, as Rob Schaefer of NBC Sports Chicago writes. Reports at the time of Williams’ injury indicated he would likely miss the rest of the regular season — the Bulls provided a four-to-six month timeline. “Patrick is coming back slowly, the schedule is to be determined,” president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas said during an appearance on the Mully & Haugh Show on 670 The Score. “We’re not going to put any pressure for him to come back. We’re just going to go from week to week, we’ll see how he improves. We’ll see in terms of a date. I don’t want to put any timeline on it, but it would be great to have Patrick back by end of season.”
- Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich said this week that big man Zach Collins is nearing a return from offseason ankle surgery, per Tom Orsborn of The San Antonio Express-News. “He was (doing basketball activities) until the new (COVID) restrictions came in,” Popovich said. “But he’s cleared to play once he gets a rhythm, and if he gets a chance to play some 3-on-3 or 5-on-5 or 4-on-4. … It’s kind of difficult now, but he’s almost ready to go.”
At this point I’d be shocked if Zion comes back this year
Nike is not happy about Zion
At this point can we say Ja Morant is better than Zion?
Zion has 85 games in 2 and a half seasons.
Career totals of 2187 points, 591 rebounds, 276 assists, 48 blocks and 73 steals.
Ja has 158 games and career totals of 3098 points, 673 rebounds, 1139 assists, 42 blocks and 154 steals.
Ja last year lead his team to the playoffs and this year looks likely to get home court advantage. Whereas Zions hasn’t even played in half the possible games and even in the season he played most their games they only finished 13th in the west which is where they currently are without him.
Ja might not have the potential as Zion or ability to put up the ridiculous stats but he is a great leader, he’s way more professional, diets and stays fit, and has made a difference to his team winning games.
I will take Zion any day of the week & twice on Sunday over Ja!
At the end of the day Ja is just another guard, which there are a dozen a dime in the league, the real difference makers are the big guys, that you can’t teach size… & boy Zion is a big guy with phenomenal skills!