Newly re-signed Nets wing Iman Shumpert will have to wait another week or two to make his season debut for a new-look Brooklyn club after straining his left hamstring, head coach Steve Nash said today, per Malika Andrews of ESPN (Twitter link).
Shumpert re-joined the Nets on January 31 on a non-guaranteed veteran’s minimum contract. The injury must be quite recent, as Nash suggested in statements made earlier this week that Shumpert was “completely available” to play.
As Bobby Marks of ESPN notes (via Twitter), Shumpert’s partially-guaranteed deal with the franchise only becomes fully guaranteed if he remains under contract through February 24, just beyond Nash’s established two-week recovery window.
It will be interesting to see whether the Nets opt to waive Shumpert in favor of another free agent wing. Defensive-oriented free agent swingmen who could be had in Shumpert’s stead include Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, most recently with the Mavericks, and former Thunder wing Andre Roberson.
They do medicals on these guys or what? Lol it’s been like 3 days
Players get injured in practice all the time.
“players get injured in practice all the time” especially when they have been chilling on their couch for 10 months.
“Jimmy’s down!”
Lol
Lmao, dude hasn’t played for over a year or something and he gets injured before he even debuts
Already …. I would cut him and bring in someone who’s in shape. G-league player. Not good
well tbh other than providing defense, hes practically useless…..
Iman and good defense stopped being a thing at least 3 years ago.
None of their recent signing have been even the least bit impressive.
Vonleh can’t possibly be any worse than Shumpert, but it’s still hard to see him getting regular minutes in Brooklyn. Same goes for Pelle.
If Shumpert wasn’t Kyrie’s boy he would #1) have never been signed, or #2) already been cut after tweaking the hammy this quick. This is why “buddy” ball doesn’t work.
and #3) he would have retired already or even join stephenson and staukus in the g league lol
Kyrie is now starting to play in a lot of games and is getting 35+ minutes per night with heavy usage. ….. How long before injury ends Kyrie’s season?
Kirschenbaum makes two really good suggestions with Roberson and Kidd-Gilchrist. Either would be forced to play just for the fact that they can guard the PG through PF (and Center if talking about MKG) as well as other star players.
Lol all you sofa athletes acting like you have a clue about conditioning compared to playing professional sports. You know how easy it is to get hurt?
He hurt himself flexing on Instagram