After missing the last two games due to a sprained left foot, Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving has been upgraded to available for Friday’s game vs. the Nuggets, as first reported by Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
The Mavericks are the only undefeated team left in the Western Conference, but will face a tough matchup in their first in-season tournament game tonight as they visit the defending champions in the altitude of Denver, so they’ll be happy to have Irving back in their lineup.
Here are a few more injury-related updates from around the NBA:
- There’s good and bad news on the injury front for the Thunder. Center Jaylin Williams will be available for the first time this season on Friday after having been sidelined with a right hamstring strain. However, star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is among the team’s unavailable players vs. Golden State due to a left knee sprain (Twitter links via Rylan Stiles of Locked on Thunder).
- Clippers guard/forward Terance Mann, who has yet to play this season due to what the team is calling a sprained left ankle, said in a YouTube video that he “overstretched” a muscle or “maybe tore it a little” (hat tip to Andrew Greif of The Los Angeles Times). Mann added that there’s no timeline for his return and he’s still focused on trying to reduce the swelling in the ankle.
- The Kings have ruled out forward Trey Lyles for at least two more games, the team announced today (Twitter link via Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee). Lyles, hampered by a left calf strain, has yet to suit up for Sacramento this season.
If Mann never suits up again, he will forever be remembered as the GOAT the untouchable, undisputed GOAT.
Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kareem, Shaq, Michael Jordan… sorry bruh, can’t do that trade. 7 years of FRPs, SRPs… don’t embarrass yourself, not enough.
In 2K his glitch shot never even misses. I heard hes the one that taught Kawhi, LeBron, and the rest of the okay players in the league how to properly load manage.
Right now scientists are bottling jars of his sweat in hopes of creating a cure for cancer. On the black market it’s going for ‘all of the Bitcoin’ not 1 or 2, all of it, nothing less than all.
He is the youngest 27 year old in the league. Just imagine how good he will be when he hits his prime at 35. If I were the Clippers the Gobert trade haul wouldn’t be enough for me. I want Wemby, 3 firsts, and 2 pick swaps.
My head is about to explode thinking of how good he will be at 35.
they are going to build a statue of him after getting them out of the 2nd round for the first time ever when he dropped 39 on the jazz.