SAN DIEGO — The Nets haven’t even hit their preseason opener earlier than being hit with accidents.
Ahead Trendon Watford and middle Day’Ron Sharpe will every miss a number of weeks with left hamstring strains, after sustaining the accidents throughout coaching camp practices final week.
Neither made the journey with the Nets for the Southern California leg of coaching camp, left residence in Brooklyn to be evaluated by the medical workers.
That analysis revealed the strains, with each gamers having begun rehabilitation.
They’ll be sidelined from on-court exercise. The Nets will replace Watford’s standing in two weeks, whereas Sharpe received’t be up to date for six weeks.
The 22-year-old Sharpe is the one pure middle on the Brooklyn roster after starter Nic Claxton, who may also miss the preseason opener Tuesday towards the Clippers with a hamstring damage, though the Nets have claimed that’s purely precautionary.
The damage forces second-year professional Noah Clowney — who may’ve competed for the beginning energy ahead spot — into beginning at middle in Claxton’s absence, and being his solely backup when the veteran returns.
The 6-foot-11, 265-pound Sharpe is without doubt one of the league’s finest offensive rebounders, on a group in determined want of assistance on the offensive glass.
Sharpe, who’s within the final yr of his rookie contract, averaged 6.8 factors and a formidable 6.4 rebounds in simply 15.1 minutes final season.
The bruising massive’s 16.3 offensive rebound proportion is third-best within the NBA amongst all gamers who’d logged at the very least a dozen video games final season. Lacking him for a month-and-a-half — at the very least — shall be a blow.
Watford was re-signed as a restricted free agent this summer time after discovering a job down the stretch as a secondary playmaker and level ahead.
