Cavaliers forward Taurean Prince is expected to undergo surgery on his ankle that would bring his 2020/21 season to an end, reports Kelsey Russo of The Athletic (Twitter link).
While Prince has been a regular rotation player off Cleveland’s bench for most of the last month, there was always an expectation that he’d address his ankle by undergoing a procedure in the offseason, as we relayed earlier in April. It now appears he’ll get a jump on his rehab process by going under the knife before the season ends. A timeline for his recovery is not yet known.
Prince, who started the season in Brooklyn, was sent to the Cavaliers in the four-team James Harden trade in January. He has appeared in a total of 41 games for the two teams this season, averaging 9.5 PPG and 3.5 RPG with a very solid .400 3PT% in 22.1 minutes per contest.
Prince will be on an expiring $13MM contract in 2021/22, making him a potential trade candidate if he’s not in the Cavs’ plans beyond next season.
Wow! The rare player who waited until after he left the Nets to get injured this year!
Hey guys, is there a reason the link to Prince’s profile is blocked?
We use a Basketball-Reference tool that automatically links their player profiles — not sure why the auto-generated link for Prince is so odd. I’ve manually updated it.
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Nets could become 1 seed tonight
Rockets are the smartest
They like Exum more than Prince
LaVert more than Kelly Big O
Bradley more than Allen
And Kevin Porter more than a future 2nd round pick the Cavs will never get.
I view Kevin Porter value as the 6th pick on this year nba draft
20 years old with huge upside, athletic and quickness
20, 6, 6 potential
Max salary? you never know
I am better than Cavs GM
Kevin Porter the 6th pick in the draft? Lol ok
Have fun with him. Now missing games because of going to a strip club.
The Rockets aren’t playing for wins, so Porter missing a few games will help them to try and secure a top-4 pick in the draft and get a franchise player to replace Harden. If they get either Cade, Suggs, or Mobley to go along with Wood, Wall, Porter, Tate, Martin and probably Olynyk and Gordon, have fun watching the Rockets in the playoffs since the Cavs rarely (if ever) get there without LeBron.
Talent is not enough, and there’s not great talent there, except Mobley in a few years. At least you did not mention Sterling Brown, who is better gone. Even Stone & Fertita will be offended by the Booby Trap incident, and use that as a proxy for their whole crappy season then throw Brown out like a voodoo doll, symbolically getting rid of their troubles at the same time so that better times can arrive.
As for Porter’s bravery… he was suicidal… does BB help or aid that? Or boobs, drugs, rebellion? If one eliminates what he likes, does that make him despondent? Then no Porter either, at least the current version.