The Clippers could bring back a couple of injured players in the near future, tweets sideline reporter Ohm Youngmisuk. Head coach Tyrant said before Sunday’s game against Charlotte Brandon Ingram and Yannick Conan Niederhauser will travel with the team during the upcoming four-game road trip, and he hopes to have one or both players back during that stretch that begins Nov. 19 (at San Antonio) and runs through Nov. 25 (at Memphis).
Ingram is recovering offseason heel surgerywhich included the repair of a partially torn Achilles tendonwhile Niederhauser rehabilitated from February foot surgeryspecifically the Lisfranc injury. Both players have gone 5-on-5 in recent weeks as they make their season debuts.
Bradley Bealmeanwhile, continues to battle knee inflammation and, according to Youngmisuk, will not be making the trip.
As for Hornetsthey will have Brandon Miller back in Sunday’s game against the Clippers after missing two games with a right hamstring strain. He was not on the team’s injury report before the game in Los Angeles (Link to Twitter).
Here’s some more NBA injury news:
- After missing the last four games with a left adductor strain, Predators a star Scotty Barnes will return Sunday against New York, per Blake Murphy of Sportsnet.ca (Link to Twitter). Barnes, who is averaging 23.5 points per game through eight games, was initially listed as questionable for the game against the division rival Knicks.
- Jazz center Yusuf Nurkich (partially torn plantar plate in right second toe) has yet to make his season debut, but was spotted during on-court practice prior to Sunday’s game against San Antonio (Link to Twitter by Shreyas Laddha of The Salt Lake Tribune). Nurkic is expected to be overrated next Friday.
- Warriors security guard Brandon Williams According to Nick Friedel of The Athletic, he moved better during practice after Sunday’s practiceLink to Twitter). Athletic guard recovering from a mild left hamstring strainexpected to be reassessed in a few days. Head coach Steve Kerr said Williams is making progress in his recovery, according to Friedel, but will likely miss the remaining three games of Golden State’s road trip, which ends Thursday at Memphis.