On April 21, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs are in full swing, but the Suns, Nets and Lone Rangers have all been plagued by injuries, and their latest injuries have been released, the Suns official announced that the leggings are slightly strained, Simmons plans to return to G4, and Doncic may return to G3.
Booker's injury was confirmed, expert: 7-10 days of injury suspension
Suns and Pelicans Series G2, Booker played a super performance in the first half, shooting 7 three-pointers in 17 minutes to slash 31 points, but unfortunately injured in the third quarter of the second half, strained a hamstring during a defense, and withdrew from the game early due to injury.
Sun officials have announced the results of Booker's MRI examination, Booker suffered a slight strain on his right hamstring, and the return date is uncertain; after which Warnaroski said that Booker may play series G3 and G4.
Medical expert Evan Jeffries, who gave Booker a sunday of his injury, said Booker had a slight strain on his hamstring (first-degree strain). As a rule, the injury would require a 7-10 day recovery period; Jeffries also said Booker couldn't rush it, and his injury was similar to harden last year.'s
So far in the playoffs, Booker has played in two games, averaging 28 points, three rebounds and 4.5 assists per game, shooting 57.9% from three-point range; the Suns and Pelicans are currently 1-1 on aggregate, and both G3 and G4 will play against New Orleans.
Simmons targets a G4 comeback
ESPN star Wenarowski reported that Simmons is aiming to make a comeback in the first round of G4 to make his Nets debut.
Simmons' back injury is no longer painful, he has participated in the team's confrontation training, which is a good thing for him to return to the field; but Nash said that they did not set specific goals for Simmons' comeback, and today they had a full confrontation training, everything is fine, if he can play, it will be great, but it is still some way to go before the comeback.
All indications are that Simmons is getting closer to a comeback, targeting a series G4 comeback; the Nets are currently trailing the Celtics 0-1 in the big score, and G1 was crushed by Tatum in the final moments.
Doncic is expected to make a comeback in G3
Today's Lone Ranger officially released the G3 injury report, Doncic's playing status has been upgraded to a game of doubt, 50% probability to play, Hardaway Jr. and Nilikina continue to miss the game; Doncic missed G1 and G2 due to calf injury, and he has begun to run shooting training, and it is possible that G3 will return.
For Doncic's injury, medical expert Evan Jeffries listed the prerequisites for Doncic's G3 comeback - all actions should be painless, and the pre-match decision was made whether to play.
After training, Doncic said: "I have done some training in the past two days, I feel good now, I am getting better, I don't know if I can recover to 100% before G3, according to the current situation I think it is difficult, but if I am fully prepared and do not risk serious injuries, I will play in G3.
Doncic also said he missed basketball so much that he was tired of lying down for treatment.
The current 1-1 draw for the Lone Rangers and Jazz, when Doncic makes his comeback and his form of comeback will all have a big impact on the series.