FEBRUARY 13: Vezenkov has been diagnosed with a grade 3 sprain in his right ankle and will be reevaluated in four-to-six weeks, according to an announcement from the Kings.
FEBRUARY 11: Kings rookie forward Sasha Vezenkov re-aggravated a right ankle sprain this weekend and will miss several weeks of action, per Chris Biderman of The Sacramento Bee (Twitter link).
As Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee (subscriber link) writes, Vezenkov had just rejoined his Sacramento teammates after being sidelined for two weeks due to a sprain in the same ankle.
Vezenkov missed seven games total with that initial ailment, then injured the ankle again in a Saturday practice ahead of today’s ongoing Thunder game, a source informs Anderson.
The 28-year-old reserve, who is the reigning EuroLeague MVP thanks to his efforts with Olympiacos, joined the Kings on a three-year, $20MM deal as a free agent last summer.
In 12.6 minutes per game thus far this season, Vezenkov has averaged 5.6 points on .448/.380/.769 shooting, along with 2.5 rebounds per game. Anderson notes that the forward has been an inconsistent part of Sacramento’s lineups.
Hoopsrumors: Why was there no Tuesday chat this afternoon? Did Dana have something come up?
Dana will be transitioning out of the weekly chats. Arthur Hill will be taking them over within the next couple weeks, but I still need to give him the rundown on how to use our chat platform.
My weekly chats will still be happening on Thursdays until then.
Aww! Sorry to hear Dana is leaving the chats. He did an excellent job. Will he continue to write for Hoopsrumors? Thank you, Dana for all the chats you hosted!
I’d like to say that all of us appreciate the Hoopsrumors chats, Luke. It’s a lot more work than any of us know, answering NBA questions on the fly like you do. I don’t think any of the other NBA content providers are still doing chats these days. Keep on doing them, please!
We’ll look forward to Arthur taking over on Tuesdays- will that be in March sometime?
Dana will be sticking around — he’ll be picking up some extra hours on Thursdays going forward, so he wanted to take a little off his plate by handing off the chats to someone new.
Arthur will likely start the first week of March at the latest. Potentially before then.
Couldn’t have said it better! You and all the HR staff do great work. We’ll miss you on the chats, Dana.
This can only mean he is prepping for a front office job opening in Detroit…
Love it! Dana would be a big improvement for Detroit. But we want him to keep up his good work here at Hoopsrumors!