After missing more than a month with a bone bruise in his right ankle, Wizards forward Rui Hachimura is expected to play Thursday, tweets Chase Hughes of NBC Sports Washington. The team announced that Hachimura, who has been out of action since November 18, will be available for the game at Utah.
Hachimura was originally diagnosed with ankle soreness, but an MRI revealed the bruise. Head coach Wes Unseld Jr. offered an encouraging progress report on Hachimura last week, saying he had started one-on-one contact work.
Hachimura’s return is welcome news for the Wizards, who had lost 10 straight games before winning Tuesday night in Phoenix. Washington is 12th in the East at 12-20, but the club is starting to get some of its rotation players back after a string of injuries. Bradley Beal returned Sunday after missing two weeks with a hamstring issue, and Delon Wright should be back soon after being sidelined since October 25 with a strained hamstring.
There’s more injury news to pass along:
- Pelicans forward Zion Williamson has been placed in the league’s health and safety protocols and will miss Thursday’s game against the Spurs, according to Christian Clark of NOLA.com. Clark notes that Williamson was able to play 40 minutes Monday, but he wasn’t at practice today. New Orleans also plays on Friday and may be facing an extended stretch without Williamson and Brandon Ingram, whom coach Willie Green has already confirmed will miss both games.
- Sixers coach Doc Rivers told reporters tonight that Tyrese Maxey, who has a broken bone in his left foot, is improving, but there’s still no set timetable for him to return, tweets Kyle Neubeck of The Philly Voice. “We will see him at some point,” Rivers said. “I just don’t know when.”
- Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins may be targeting Christmas Day to try to return from a right adductor strain, tweets Anthony Slater of The Athletic. Wiggins is sitting out tonight’s game at Brooklyn, along with Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Donte DiVincenzo and JaMychal Green.
Speaking of Wiggins and the others sitting out for the warriors, who is it on here who suggests to play the young guys more?
I hope they’re watching the game tonight.
All the young guys are getting all the minutes that they can handle and they’re getting blown out as I’ve never seen in my 50 years as an NBA fan.
“Let’s play the young guys !!” Are you kidding me? I hope you’re watching tonight.
If someone questions playing Ty Jerome over Ryan Rollins, they don’t know what the NBA is about. Ty Jerome is a 3-year NBA player and Ryan Rollins is a 13 game NBA player.
Warriors can’t sacrifice 5 losses here and 5 losses there. They need to secure a playoff spot.
You’re absolutely right. The Warriors need to commit to Steph’s timeline. Theyve got a superstar, they need to build another champion around him instead of planning for the next five years. Moses Moody and James Wiseman would look better in other uniforms (Indiana’s?)
The young guys are Wiseman and Kuminga to me. They need to be part of rotation. I doubt anyone said play them without Curry. Klay. Wiggins.
And Warriors got blown out by 53 in a 130 -77
loss to Toronto Raptors. 2020-21. You must have slept that night.
Nets and KD should blow them out. Why show mercy.
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Al, have you seen how BAD Wiseman is? Like, got demoted to the G league bad?
How BAD Wiseman is? They were planning to play him in the G-League before the start of the season. I don’t understand why that surprises you guys?
He had 30 last night. I cream G league he is 20. He works hard too Wiseman will be fine.
I sleep most nights LOL but yeah I’m the master of hyperbole. I’m pretty grumpy after a huge loss so everything is game for criticism.
The trading deadline could be very interesting this year for the Golden State warriors.
I maintained two summers ago that they should trade their young guys for veterans and maximize this core and their Twilight years while they’re still effective.
I was lambasted on this site and also the Warriors themselves decided to keep the young guys in the hopes they would develop and carry on the winning ways.
Well that hasn’t quite worked out for them. I’m not going to say they’re wrong because it probably was a good move to keep the youth but now that you’ve seen them play, what do you decide to do?
Package 2 of them for a great veteran? Maybe do that twice…, four of the young guys for two great veterans? 2 Good veterans?
It will be interesting. Thoughts?
I like the Wiseman for Myles Turner trade that’s been floated lately. Indiana is a much smaller market and I think a Tyrese-Wiseman combo could be crazy good. You’re absolutely right though.
Well I’m cheating with 20/20 hindsight now that we’ve seen that these guys can’t get it done.
The fact is they’re only 20 years old, all these kids, and last year’s bench was made up of 30 year olds. Huge difference.
Yeah, sometimes it’s the little cogs that make the big cogs turn well. Losing GPII and OPJ sucked for them.
To make a Turner-for-Wiseman trade work, you have to throw in 3 more guys.
Dude they just won a championship. Plus curry & Wiggins are out.
I still cant believe we didnt pull the trigger for Sabonis last yr…. That would have set Warriors up for another 5 yrs :(
We? Who were the Pacers asking for? I don’t see that trade rumor anywhere.
I don’t understand why people don’t suggest the most obvious trade candidate, Jordan Poole. His weaknesses is the Warriors biggest problem, Defense. Scoring is not the Warriors biggest problem. Poole is in no way the greatest SG the Warriors have ever had. He is replaceable. You can probably get a veteran big man for him that can easily slide into the 2nd unit.