The Nets are hoping that the right hand strain that made James Harden a late scratch for Saturday’s game won’t be a long-term issue, writes Brian Lewis of The New York Post. Harden wasn’t on the team’s injury list, but he underwent an MRI exam that showed the strain.
“James’ hand has been bothering him for a few days at least,” coach Steve Nash said. “He thought it was nothing and then it really flared up this morning when he woke up. Obviously irritated but what he was feeling (Friday) and (Saturday) morning he woke up with some irritation so he had a scan. (It was) clean of the bad stuff, but a strain for sure. There’s stuff on the MRI, so he’s feeling something and feeling the strain, and like I said it’s been bothering (him). But he was like, ‘It’s nothing.’ And now it’s a little more than nothing. He woke up with a marked difference in the hand.”
Nash added that Harden has fully recovered from a strained hamstring that forced him to miss Wednesday’s game. He said Harden has been dealing with pain in the hand for several days and may have aggravated it at Friday’s practice. Brooklyn’s next game is Tuesday at Phoenix, and Harden’s status is uncertain.
There’s more on the Nets:
- Kyrie Irving had one of his best games of the season Saturday night at Golden State, but his vaccination status continues to be a source of controversy, Lewis adds. San Francisco board supervisor Matt Haney told reporters that Irving shouldn’t have been permitted to play at Chase Center without the vaccine. “Some people are gonna agree and some people are gonna disagree,” Irving said. “He’s entitled to his opinion and I respect it.”
- LaMarcus Aldridge left the arena on crutches after rolling his ankle late in the game, tweets Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated. “It’s just an ankle sprain,” Aldridge said. “I will be all right. I just can’t walk on it right now.”
- Rookie Kessler Edwards, who was a long shot to make the Nets’ roster after being drafted in the second round, has been pushed into the starting lineup because of injuries, Lewis adds in a separate story. There were questions about his shot coming out of college, but he has been working with player development coach Kyle Korver and is connecting at 39.3% from beyond the arc. “I thought I’d be good with the shot I had,” Edwards said. “But once they changed (it), once I started hearing different things, I saw that it was working, so I just stuck with it.”
Perhaps Harden is stressing his hand injury because he wants Kyrie to see how much he and Durant struggle keeping this team afloat without him. I can only hope Kyrie changes his mind and takes one (or two) for the team so that we can win this championship
Kyrie’s vaccination status is certain, the law casts doubt. Why mandate a vaccine when it cannot stop infection or prevent its spread? Here’s why: control. As much as I disagree with Kyrie refusing to take the shot, I like how he’s giving the middle finger to those who make the laws. I can only hope that IF the laws remain the same, Kyrie will relent and simply get vaccinated to help the Nets win a championship
I know man why mandate car seats, seatbelts, and make it illegal to drive under the influence if they can’t guarantee you won’t die in a car wreck?
Out of these three analogies, DUI is the one to use, because it’s the only one that endangers people not in your own car. The seatbelt analogy muddies the message and invites the “my body, my choice” defense. The DUI analogy forces the issue of protecting society as well as self and family.
The vaccine prevents deaths, not infection or transmission, that is the reason for the mandate. At this point, though, I think if people want to risk death, let them. Just please don’t let them pass the cost on to everyone else by using insurance or emergency rooms, die quietly at home, and wave your middle finger there.
Kyrie thinks he is brave but he is just a selfish, ignorant, bad teammate.
You’ll have to regulate a whole lot more than restricting folks who are unvaccinated in order to prevent them from passing the costs to us. Then again, that’s why we’re in this economic mess, yet I won’t digress.
Kyrie got Covid and beat it. The vaccine ain’t for NBA basketball players, some of the most fit people in the world.
Call him names all you want. It’ll simply expose unsophisticated thinking skills
Remember when they said it stopped infection and transmission? This is why people are hesitant.
Because the vaccine is safe.
No major religions actually are opposed to the vaccine.
Because even though with this vaccine breaking variant infections happen in vaccinated people they still have much lower odds of having serious infections and hospitalizations.
Because if hospitals get overwhelmed its not just Covid patients dying because of lack of resources.
Because people who are immunocompromised need to be protected as much as possible because the virus can be worse for them and there immune problems make them not respond to the vaccine.
If we had all gotten vaccinated earlier in the pandemic the Delta wave and this one would have been smaller.
And by far the biggest reason is that the more we can do to end this pandemic the quicker we can get truly back to normal where you dont need masks and can feel comfortable doing things in public.
What things do you do in public?
Kess is gonna be good. He’s a viable backup to Kevin Durant. Hopefully, when this team is fully healthy, he can perform better with less pressure to produce
Edwards was a nice pick. He’s definitely got a future. Good size and good athlete. Kyrie had a good gm. But who cares when he is going to play in half of playoff gms. Nets are not winning anything unless they trade Kyrie.
That Simple …….
Move him now get real value. Cause Harden is leaving next yr too. So get ahead of this now. And build the team around KD. Get all you can for those two airheads.