MARCH 7: The Cavaliers have confirmed that Allen, who left Sunday’s game due to a left quad contusion, was later diagnosed with a fracture in his left middle finger (Twitter link). That’s his non-shooting hand.
The big man will undergo additional evaluation and treatment, according to the Cavs, who add that no timetable has been set for his return to basketball.
MARCH 6: Cavaliers All-Star center Jarrett Allen has sustained a fractured finger and is expected to be out indefinitely, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
Allen suffered the injury during Cleveland’s game against Toronto on Sunday. He exited the contest due to a left quad contusion, however, finishing the night with six points and two rebounds in 10 minutes. The Cavaliers ended up winning the game 104-96.
Allen has appeared in 55 of the team’s 64 games this season. He has averaged a career-high 16.3 points, 10.9 rebounds and 1.3 blocks during his first All-Star campaign, shooting an efficient 68% from the floor.
The Cavaliers have upcoming games against the Pacers on Tuesday, Heat on Friday and Bulls on Saturday. Should Allen miss multiple games, big men Kevin Love, Dean Wade and Ed Davis are candidates to receive more playing time.
And Bulls fans have the nerve to whine about their teams injury situation. The Cavs have been hit extremely hard by injuries this year!
The bulls have too tho
Sure they do. My point is some fans act like their team is the only team going through injury plagues.
That Dean Wade dunk was vicious tho!
Didn’t he have a similar injury before? I feel like hes injured his hand a few times.
So did he punch a wall and break it? I didn’t see the game but the story says he exited the game due to a hip.
How/when did he bust up his finger?
Have to wonder if Love sabotaged him for more playing time. Would be a shane…
I would say that’s pretty likely. Love’s dad hates Dennis Wilson. That’s all I need to know. link to reddit.com
Yikes. Pretty damning IMO. Cavs org needs to look into this…
What happens is these guys get close to real celebrities and then think their own sloppy doo doo mess doesn’t stink.
Well, it does — often very badly.
He hurt his hip, he stayed in the game, and then they are saying he broke it about 2 minutes later when he had that nasty block on Boucher. He eventually went back to the locker room for hip pain.
Was he seen with Love at all prior to the incident? I’m just wondering if there might be something there…idk just doesn’t sit right with Love and his father’s history and the whole Charles Manson connection…
JA does his thing on anyone
Kudos to the Cavs Doctors. He actually WAS injured. Somewhere. Somehow. Someplace. Oh just take two aspirin and come back tomorrow and we’ll fire up the whole body MRI and figure out where later.