Knicks forward Julius Randle, still dealing with a quad injury, has been ruled out for Saturday’s game against Cleveland, according to Fred Katz of The Athletic, who tweets that the team is considering Randle day-to-day. For the time being, there are no plans to shut down Randle for the rest of the season, Katz adds. He missed three games with the same injury last week.
Here are a few more injury updates from around the NBA:
- The Bucks will be without several key players on Friday vs. the Clippers on the second night of a back-to-back set. According to the team (via Twitter), Giannis Antetokounmpo (right knee soreness), Jrue Holiday (left ankle sprain), Khris Middleton (left wrist soreness), and Brook Lopez (return to competition reconditioning) are among the players who will be inactive.
- Cory Joseph (left lumbar spine strain), Marvin Bagley III (left hip strain), and Kelly Olynyk (rest) won’t play for the Pistons on Friday against Oklahoma City, tweets James Edwards III of The Athletic. The two teams are neck-and-neck in the lottery standings, so neither front office will be particularly motivated to win the game.
- The Jazz got some reinforcements on Thursday when Bojan Bogdanovic returned from a nine-game absence and Danuel House played after missing eight consecutive games, writes Eric Walden of The Salt Lake Tribune. Both forwards had positive plus-minus ratings in a win over the Lakers that snapped Utah’s five-game losing streak.
- Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium (video link) provided another minor update on Ben Simmons, reporting that the Nets guard has resumed “light” on-court workouts and still hopes to return in time for the playoffs. Charania’s colleague at The Athletic, Joe Vardon, reported earlier today that Simmons is unlikely to be ready for the start of the playoffs.
Hopefully this is the light at the end of the tunnel for Ben…come back
You know he hasn’t played all year shouldn’t be allowed to play during playoffs. He has milked this long enough he should be a farmer
With that reasoning if the Clippers make it out of the play in Kawhi shouldn’t be allowed to play either?
A beet farmer lol
Simmons is near 26yo… He should be stretching & yanking that spine to make up for the debilitating inactivity earlier. Retrain it or it will slack.
Ben Simmons is exhausting.
So are you!
At least he is a great player, you not so much, right?
That’s all you got?
Ya mon, you see unlike you I ain’t a hater, so I don’t know how to go about it, so enjoy your prowess when it comes to dish out hate!
Are the Nets going to pay him ?
Injured players get paid, it’s in there contract.
Sir Randle LoseALot
Please shut Randle down for the last 5 games!
I’m so tired of talking about Randle. He really does need a new city. I just hope it happens at draft so we can move on and reboot.
Considering the PG situation is so freakin obvious for Knicks. We should be asking. What is wrong with Thibs. That he doesn’t play McBride or Quickley 30 mins a gm. Both should be getting all the mins at PG till end of season. It’s what’s best for Team. Quickley at times has shown better PG instincts this yr. They should be building on that. I’ve always been a McBride guy.
Really don’t see why Knicks wouldn’t value a 7-8 pick. Considering season has been over for wks now. Either Mathurin or Griffin could be there. Or you could easily trade up for one. Both make a good running mate for RJ and the future of this Team. Building a TEAM should be a priority here. Not Thibs ego or lack of patience with young talent.
Knicks for the rest of the season should shut down Randle and Noel and go with this lineup:
Mitch/Sims
Obi
Cam/Grimes
Quickley/McBride
Rj/Fournier
And Burks also
There’s still a chance the Jazz could get the 4th seed back. If they win the rest of their games they could even get the 3rd seed back. Seems the Warriors injuries have had just as bad or worse an effect than the Jazz’s did. Would be a nice way to end the season on a steak.
Sounds yummy to end up the season with a steak, right?
IKR? Haha! I’d take that, too! =)