Pelicans guard CJ McCollum, who was diagnosed over the weekend with a small pneumothorax in his right lung was reexamined on Tuesday and medical imaging showed positive healing, the team announced today in a press release.
However, the Pelicans still aren’t prepared to provide any sort of projected recovery timeline for McCollum, simply stating that he’ll be reevaluated at “a later date” and that further updates will be announced once they’re available.
Like McCollum, Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado remains sidelined for the foreseeable future, though there’s a more concrete timetable in place for Alvarado, who is recovering from a right ankle sprain. According to the club, he’s making “good progress” and has resumed on-court work. The expectation is that Alvarado will return to full practices within the next week or two.
Here are a few more injury updates from around the NBA:
- Neither Pelicans forward Zion Williamson nor Warriors forward/center Draymond Green are injured, but both players have been ruled out for their games on Wednesday for personal reasons, per Christian Clark of NOLA.com and Anthony Slater of The Athletic (Twitter link). It’s worth noting that Golden State’s game vs. Denver is a nationally televised contest and Green is one of the players affected by the NBA’s player participation policy, but absences for personal reasons are permitted under that policy.
- After incorporating P.J. Tucker and James Harden within the last week, the Clippers are expected to get more reinforcements on Wednesday in Brooklyn. Terance Mann (ankle) is on track to make his season debut and will be on a minutes restriction, per Shams Charania of The Athletic.
- Spurs swingman Devin Vassell (left adductor strain) is listed as doubtful for Wednesday’s contest vs. the Knicks, tweets Andrew Lopez of ESPN. While Vassell likely won’t return tonight, he seems to be making good progress, according to Jeff McDonald of The San Antonio Express-News (Twitter link), who says the 23-year-old participated in today’s shootaround, as well as a post-practice four-on-four session.
If the Clippers can get their rotations figured out, and actually male a solid run towards contending for a championship Ty Lue deserves to be the coach of the year.
Anyone that could put up with all of those personalities, keep them each individually and collectively happy, win, and figure out how to best utilize all of them simultaneously is a basketball savant!!
I can’t see how this really ends well, but thats just me, maybe I’m just ignorant
I mean, he coached the 2016 Cavs to a title. With LeBron being LeBron, Kyrie being… *a lot* (and wanting out the *entire time*, the snake), Kevin Love still acclimating to the team and recovering from injury, and a rotation full of guys like Iman Shumpert, JR Smith, Channing Frye, Richard Jefferson, Timofey Mozgov, James Jones, Tristan Thompson, and other strong personalities.
Dude probably has the best personality management skills around. His players all seem to love him. And he’s good at fitting together weird rotations into something competent, and working around injury.
There is gonna be some weird stuff with this Clippers squad, though. 100%.
Can we hold off on coach of the year posts until at least January …
now we gotta deal with players missing time for exaggerated personal reasons? always a loophole.