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Charlotte Hornets head coach Charles Lee said star forward Naz Reid was benched in the second half of a 97-89 loss to the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday because he “didn’t meet our standard” of play.

Reid is currently in the second season of a five-year, $125 million contract he signed with the Minnesota Timberwolves in July 2025 before being traded to the Hornets in June.

“Unfortunately, Naz didn’t meet our standards in the first half and at halftime we made the decision that he wouldn’t play in the second half,” Lee said after the game. “But I look forward to him meeting those standards come next game.”

The Hornets led 51-44 at the half, but were outscored 53-38 in the second half without Reid.

With less than five minutes in the first half, Reid looked confused when Lee appeared to communicate play signals.

Reid, who was talking with Hornets center Moussa Diabaté before Lee chimed in, seemed lost on the next possession.

He finished with seven points on 2-of-6 shooting in 13 minutes. Reid also had one block.

In five games played for Charlotte, Reid is averaging 19.5 points, 9.5 rebounds, and 2.5 assists.

Reid, the 2024 Sixth Man of the Year, was a part of the trade that sent NBA All-Star point guard LaMelo Ball to the Timberwolves.

In addition to Reid, the Hornets received a 2033 unprotected first-round pick and three second-round picks (2029, 2032, 2033), as well as first-round pick swaps in 2028, 2029 and 2030.

Last night, the Hawks were looking to end their back-to-back losses to the Houston Rockets and extend the offensive funk for the Miami Heat, who hadn’t won a game heading into the matchup. Rather than reclaiming a winning record however, the Hawks became the Heat’s first win of the season and fell to 2-3, with all three losses coming one after another.

This game also officially concluded the first week of the season for the Hawks. While a season is certainly not won or lost in the first week, there are several positives and negatives for the Hawks to take away from their first week of action.

Positive: Turning steals into points

Thanks in large part to the expected defensive brilliance of Dyson Daniels, the Hawks rank fourth in the league in total steals. Not only are the Hawks ending possessions, but they are converting forced turnovers to points on the other end. The team ranks fourth in points off turnovers as well.

A large part of the scoring is their ability to push in transition and convert, ranking in the top five in fastbreak points. The Hawks are composed of tenacious defenders and talented ball handlers, which are ingredients in the perfect recipe for pushing the envelope in transition. This trend being a part of their identity will make them a dangerous team going forward.

Negative: Interior Play

If you’ve watched any of the three losses for the Hawks this season, you’ve probably noticed they are putting on their best matador impression in the painted area. In the three losses, they’ve been significantly outrebounded (147-117) and outscored in the paint (172 versus 164). At one point, in the second matchup against the Rockets, the Hawks were being outrebounded 14-4.

The Heat scored 70 points in the paint, which was more than half of their total scoring output. Averaging the third fewest blocks in the league, the Hawks offer defensive resistance down low that is similar to using a piece of scotch tape to prevent a truck from driving through your house. If this trend continues throughout the season, the Hawks will put a heavy burden on their offense that may not be sustainable.

Positive: Emergence of Kingston Flemings

After losing Trae Young last season, the Hawks greatly needed another point guard. That need led to drafting Kingston Flemings with the eighth overall pick in the draft. Coming off the bench, Flemings struggled in his first game, going scoreless on 0-for-5 shooting.

Despite the early woes, his performance against the Heat was just the beginning of what the former five-star is capable of. Flemings scored 23 points on 9-for-12 shooting, which included shooting 3-of-5 from deep. Along with the scoring output, Flemings grabbed five boards, dished five assists, along with a steal and a block.

He had a sequence of back-to-back buckets, which included an “and-one” finish, a block on a much taller Giannis Antetokounmpo, and an even more impressive finish over the future first-ballot hall of gamer. Flemings also found himself in the game down the stretch as the Hawks tried to rally a fourth quarter comeback before the effort eventually flamed out.

Though it’s early in the season, it seems that Flemings could be the point guard of the future for Atlanta.

Negative: Slow start for Jalen Johnson

If you looked at only points, rebounds, and assists for Jalen Johnson, it would be fair to assume he was continuing his dominance from last season. In their first matchup against Houston, Johnson channeled his inner John Stockton and tallied a staggering 16 assists along with 26 points and nine boards. However, the averages have not translated to impacting winning in the same way.

The biggest detractor for the former Duke Blue Devil is his less-than-ideal shooting percentages. He is shooting 42.8% from the field, which is well below the area a team’s number one option should be. Johnson has only posted a field goal percentage above 45% once, which was his 19 points on 9-for-16 shooting in their huge win over Charlotte. His past two outings featured shooting 35.7% and 33.3%. Despite these poor numbers, his three-point efficiency is the most frightening part. Johnson’s career high in assists against mentioned above is higher than his three-point percentage, which currently sits at 15.8%.

If the Hawks want to make another playoff push, Johnson has put the ball in the basket at a more efficient clip.

Positive: Productive scoring back court

Despite Jalen Johnson’s slow start, the Hawks are still receiving great support from their back court. Nickiel Alexander-Walker and CJ McCollum once again are proving to be the Hawks’ go to options for offense. ‘NAW’ is the team’s only guy to score 30 so far, which was in the opening game against the Magic. He’s also shooting 38% from three, proving to be a reliable option from behind the arc and seems to convert when his team needs it most.

McCollum is the Hawks’ undisputed microwave scorer, seeming to get hot quickly and put up points in a hurry. The 14-year veteran is shooting an impressive 53% from the field and 44% from three. There are times when it seems like McCollum simply cannot miss, which provides a huge boost to the Hawks. The duo averages a combined 36.1 points per game, which is more than ideal for second and third scoring options.

Aaron Wiggins has also been critical off the bench. Whether it be catch-and-shoot opportunities or creating his own shot off the dribble, Wiggins is averaging 15.8 points per game on 53.5%/48% shooting splits, which is the perfect spark of the bench for Atlanta.

Negative: Three-point shooting

In today’s NBA, three-point shooting is undoubtedly a team’s biggest weapon. For the Hawks, the three-point shot is one of their biggest deficiencies. In their last games, which again, are all losses, they have the second lowest three-point percentage in the entire league.

In the second Houston matchup, the Hawks shot 28% as a team, which included their bench only shooting 3-for-15 for the game. One of the most startling revelations of their three-performance comes from the center position. Ideally, teams with bigs shooting at a high frequency spread out a defense and open up opportunities for an offense to execute at all levels of the floor.

However, when your centers are shooting 4-for-32 on the season from behind the arc, that vision is difficult to achieve. With their defensive and rebounding issues, the Hawks will have to counter with big scoring outputs, which can only be achieved with improved three-point shooting.

An hour and a half before the Lakers started their win over the Clippers at Intuit Dome, the team officially added a player to its roster to hopefully address its glaring big-man problem. 

And it sounds like JJ Redick will have some homework to do coming out of the back-to-back set on the latest addition. 

The Lakers announced on Wednesday that they signed Lawson Lovering to a two-way contract, waiving AK Okereke to create a roster spot for Lovering.

When asked for a scouting report on the Lakers’ newest addition and how the 7-footer can help the team’s frontcourt in light of the Lakers having a desperate need of another big man behind starter Walker Kessler, Redick had a comical seven-word response.

“I know his name is Lawson Lovering,” Redick said before laughing, adding that he found out about the team adding the big man when reporters did. 

Lovering spent 2025-26 with the Grizzlies, playing for the organization’s G League affiliate, the Memphis Hustle, and NBA team.

He averaged 7.7 points (59.2% shooting), 7.1 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.3 blocked shots in the G League last season. 

Lovering played in two NBA games for the Grizzlies last season.

He went undrafted in 2025 after spending his collegiate career at Colorado (2021–2023) and Utah (2023–2025).

A front office member of another NBA team described the big man to the California Post as a center with good size, a really good screener, an underrated passer and a player who knows their role.

“To me,” the front office member said, “he’s one of the better G League bigs that’s two-way eligible.”

For Redick and the Lakers’ sake, hopefully that’s the first impression Lovering makes.

Playing the second night of a back-to-back following a narrow loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, the Luka Dončić-less Los Angeles Lakers were going to need some unsung heroes to help them topple the Los Angeles Clippers Wednesday night. That became even more apparent as Austin Reaves struggled through his worst outing of the season, going 6-of-16 from the floor, scoring 16 points and committing eight turnovers — the first time in five games he’d shot worse than 54.5% or tallied fewer than 23 points.

Reaves and the shorthanded Lakers found reinforcements from their bench trio, Collin Sexton, Sandro Mamukelashvili and Jarred Vanderbilt, all of whom helped Los Angeles handle the Clippers, 103-87, for a fourth win in five tries this season.

Sexton recorded a season-high 21 points (6-of-11 shooting, 4-of-7 from deep), four rebounds and two assists. Mamukelashvili filled up the box score with 13 points (6-of-15 shooting), eight rebounds, three assists, two steals and one block. Vanderbilt made his regular season debut, chipping in seven rebounds and two assists; although he did not score, his motor and range defensively helped stymie the Clippers’ frontline.

“I think the guys, Vando, Sexton, Mamu, those guys, you can’t always read into like the single-game plus-minus, but very apparent in our good stretches of the game, just the impact that those guys had,” head coach JJ Redick told reporters postgame. “They ended up with [a plus-minus of] +21, + 23 + 22, those three guys off the bench. They were great. They helped us win.

In particular, the Mamukelashvili-Vanderbilt tandem produced good results for the Lakers, which outscored the Clippers by 27 points (51-24) across the 20 minutes those two played together. Redick acknowledged their complementary skill-sets — Vanderbilt’s defensive signature and Mamukelashvili’s offensive versatility — as the driving force behind that success.

“It was good. We had Vando on Lopez. He did a great job. We showed a clip at halftime of fronting him in the post and not allowing him to get the basketball,” Redick said. “Vando’s always going to play hard. He’s always going to impact the game with just his effort and I thought he did that tonight. The pairing with Mamu, it’s probably the best pairing in terms of having another big out there that can space and shoot and playmake.”

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Collin Sexton comes across as polite and understated.

… Until you watch him play.

The 27-year-old guard transforms from someone who speaks in hushed tones and politely nods in the locker room into someone who more closely resembles a rabid animal when he’s on the court.

In a viral video of him guarding Cam Christie in the Lakers’ 103-87 win over the Clippers on Wednesday, Sexton’s eyes were bulging. His jaw was clenched, except for his tongue poking out. It almost appears as though he was roaring.

When his on-court vs. off-court dichotomy was brought to Sexton’s attention after the game, he chuckled.

“Honestly, I would say when I step between those lines, it’s us against them,” said Sexton, who had 21 points on 6-for-11 shooting, four rebounds and two assists as the Lakers improved to 4-1.

“I’m going to do whatever my team needs for me. I feel like I turn into a different person when it’s time to go. And I think my teammates know that, so they try to talk to me a little bit, but they know I’m in the zone and ready to go to war. And that’s how I look at it. Whenever I step between those lines, it’s war time. So, that’s how I look at it, for sure.”

On a night when the Lakers were missing two starters in Luka Doncic (back tightness) and Ziaire Williams (left foot soreness), Sexton had the highest plus-minus of anyone on the court (+23).

The Lakers acquired Sexton on a two-year, $19 million deal in July, hoping the veteran could be a secondary ball-handler and give the Lakers a scoring punch off the bench. He has career averages of 18.3 points, 2.7 rebounds and 3.6 assists over eight seasons with the Cavaliers, Jazz, Hornets and Bulls.

So far, the Lakers have appreciated what he’s bringing to the team on both ends of the court. Austin Reaves has described him as a “pest” defensively. Lakers coach JJ Redick called him “intense.”

“Sometimes it’s hard to get his attention, you know, because he gets locked in, he gets in the zone,” Redick said. “I love the competitive fire.”

Barely one week into the 2026-27 NBA season, a handful of teams are dealing with season-altering injuries.

Thunder wing Jalen Williams (fibula/ankle) and guard Cason Wallace (shoulder) may already be out for the season. Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard is “expected to miss a period of weeks” because of swelling in his left knee. Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards may be out for two months because of a knee injury. A torn MCL is set to sideline Jazz big man Jaren Jackson Jr. for 6-8 weeks. Magic forward Paolo Banchero is out for multiple weeks with a high ankle sprain, while guard Jalen Suggs is out for at least two weeks because of a bone bruise in his right knee. And Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton is out for at least two weeks due to a left hamstring strain.

Those are the major ones, although other teams throughout the league are dealing with various bumps and bruises as well. The Pacers, whom the Sixers faced on Wednesday, were without both Haliburton and starting center Ivica Zubac (ankle), which helped the Sixers escape with a 114-109 road win.

The Sixers are dealing with a handful of injuries as well, although all five of their starters are healthy for now. As long as that remains the case, they’re poised to take advantage of these other absences throughout the league.

The Sixers don’t play the Thunder, Jazz or Timberwolves until the calendar flips to 2027, so Edwards and Jackson might be back by then. (J-Dub and Wallace likely won’t be back for either of the two Sixers-Thunder games in January and February.) However, the Sixers will host the Raptors on Nov. 12 and head to Orlando six days later, which means they could avoid Leonard and Banchero in those games. They also host the Pacers on Nov. 15 and face them again on the first night of a back-to-back in late November, so they might dodge Haliburton in at least one of those games if not both.

Head-to-head results aside, those injuries could prove costly to their respective teams in terms of their win-loss record. And with the East looking especially cutthroat this year, an early-season slide from the Magic and/or Raptors might leave the Sixers with fewer competitors for a top playoff seed. That would be a welcome development, particularly given how much the Sixers might need to load-manage Joel Embiid and LeBron James throughout the regular season.

However, the leaguewide wave of injuries could have one notable long-term consequence for the Sixers.

After this season, Tyrese Maxey will have seven years of NBA experience and will have two years left on his contract. If he doesn’t make an All-NBA team this year, he’ll be eligible to sign a three-year extension next summer starting at 30 percent of the 2029-30 salary cap. If he does make an All-NBA team, he’ll be eligible to sign a four-year extension starting at 35 percent of the 2029-30 salary cap. Those back-to-back All-NBA nods would also automatically qualify him for a five-year supermax extension in 2028, too.

Maxey made the All-NBA third team last year, in part because stars like Edwards, Stephen Curry and Giannis Antetokounmpo weren’t eligible for end-of-season awards since they played in fewer than 65 games. Edwards will likely be ineligible again this season, and Leonard and Haliburton are already in danger of losing their eligibility as well. And again, it’s only the first week of the season. More All-NBA candidates are bound to miss time moving forward.

Heading into the season, it was fair to wonder whether the Sixers’ new star-studded starting five would all cannibalize one another’s production, jeopardizing their chances at All-Star and All-NBA nods. However, through the first five games of the season, Maxey is averaging 28.4 points on 46.2 percent shooting, 4.6 assists and 4.2 rebounds per game.He’s doing all of that while shooting only 32.4 percent from deep, a figure which is bound to come up in the near future.

Maxey was named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the first week of the season. He was the only player in the NBA to average at least 25 points, two steals and one block per game over that span, according to the Sixers. If he maintains anywhere near that level of production moving forward and plays in the requisite 65 games, he’ll be in strong contention for an All-NBA nod, if not an outright lock.

Luckily, Maxey is already on a guaranteed contract through 2028-29, so his supermax eligibility wouldn’t impact the Sixers until 2029 at the earliest. However, both Embiid and Jaylen Brown’s contracts are set to expire after the 2028-29 campaign as well—provided, of course, that Embiid picks up his $67.3 million player option for 2028-29—while VJ Edgecombe will become a restricted free agent in 2029 if the Sixers don’t sign him to an extension by the rookie-scale extension deadline in October 2028. That’s a lot of overlapping pieces to juggle.

Again, none of that is a concern this season. All the Sixers need to focus on this year is coalescing and getting 1 percent better every day, as Maxey is fond of saying. But if this early-season wave of injuries does increase Maxey’s probability of earning his second straight All-NBA nod, it could create some long-term financial consequences for the Sixers as early as next summer. How they navigate those will help shape the next era of Sixers basketball after LeBron either leaves or retires.

Unless otherwise noted, all stats via NBA.com, PBPStats, Cleaning the Glass or Basketball Reference. All salary information via Spotrac and salary-cap information via RealGM.

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It’s not even Halloween, the NBA season is barely a week old, but the injury report already looks like something you’d expect to read in April.

Here in Mexico City, I can relate. You can feel Día de Muertos in the air, both figuratively and literally. We’re just days — hours, if you push it — away from one of the biggest festivities in the country to take place this weekend. No need to explain what we celebrate, trying to bring back those who left us in the past to start just another chapter away from the land. If only for a little ratito.

Meanwhile, in the NBA, it looks like stars are playing a very solid role in a performance mimicking this weekend’s celebrations. It’s not a few, but muchos, who have already undergone surgery and be placed on the shelves for months on end, if not the whole year, outright.

Meanwhile, the New York Knicks are doing something that is starting to feel illegal, some sort of subterfuge competitive advantage in itself.

Being healthy. Vivito y coleando.

Keerthika Uthayakumar’s little research went viral yesterday. Yet according to ESPN’s injury report from early Thursday, the Knicks had just one player listed: my man José, who missed the game against the Chicago Bulls with an ankle injury. Maldito tobillo.

Now compare that with the rest of the league, where approximately 15 percent of players (s/o Keerthika!) were dealing with injuries or illnesses yesterday afternoon. Eleven former All-Stars were already expected to miss several weeks or longer just eight days into the season.

The NBA injury report is a hot parrillada

Obviously, the most concerning situation might be in Oklahoma City, where Jalen Williams underwent surgery to repair a fractured left fibula and reconstruct ankle ligaments following a fracture-dislocation and will only be reevaluated by the team when the regular season ends. Gone for good, in other words. Descanse en paz, bendito. His teammate Cason Wallace also needs surgery after tearing the labrum in his left shoulder, and both will miss a hellaciously long time.

Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee and could miss two months. Utah’s Jaren Jackson Jr. tore the MCL in his right knee and faces a six-to-eight-week absence. Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton, already coming off a season lost to an Achilles injury, will miss at least two weeks with a hamstring strain. Orlando’s Paolo Banchero faces four to six weeks out with a high ankle sprain, while Toronto’s Kawhi Leonard is expected to miss multiple weeks because of swelling in his left knee. Elsewhere, Golden State is without Jimmy Butler III until potentially January or February, while Kristaps Porzingis remains away indefinitely with ongoing health concerns. Sacramento’s Ben Simmons and former Knickerbocker Ariel Hukporti suffered Achilles ruptures, and Washington’s Jamir Watkins is recovering from ACL surgery.

Hay más almas que cempasúchil en el sendero.

Somehow, the Knicks have avoided all of this

As Stefan Bondy of the New York Post noted, every member of the Knicks’ starting five reached the 65-game threshold in both 2024-25 and 2025-26. Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, Josh Hart, OG Anunoby, and Karl-Anthony Towns have provided a level of continuity that most teams can only dream about. ¡Quién pudiera!

Bridges hasn’t missed an NBA game in his career even though seemingly everybody wants him hitting the pine for a start, with his streak reaching 643 consecutive appearances on Wednesday. Towns and Anunoby, meanwhile, arrived in New York with considerable injury histories but have remained remarkably durable.

Per Bondy, the Knicks’ starting five led the NBA with 940 minutes together in 2024-25, finished second with 541 last season, and ranked first again through four games this year.

Around the NBA: Oct. 29 injury report

ESPN listed 99 players across 29 teams on its injury report, with the Memphis Grizzlies, de algún modo, escaping the Santa Muerte.

Here’s the list. Sigue rezando, mijo.

• Anthony Edwards (Timberwolves): Underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. Expected to miss up to two months, with ESPN listing December 21 as his estimated return.
• Jalen Williams (Thunder): Underwent surgery to repair a fractured left fibula and reconstruct ankle ligaments following a fracture-dislocation. Will be reevaluated before the end of the regular season. His season could be over.
• Tyrese Haliburton (Pacers): Suffered a left hamstring strain. Expected to miss at least two weeks, with November 13 listed as his estimated return.
• Kawhi Leonard (Raptors): Dealing with swelling in his left knee. Expected to miss multiple weeks, with an estimated November 23 return.
• Paolo Banchero (Magic): Suffered a right high ankle sprain. Expected to miss four to six weeks, with November 22 listed as his estimated return.
• Jaren Jackson Jr. (Jazz): Diagnosed with a torn MCL in his right knee. Expected to miss six to eight weeks, with an estimated December 14 return.
• Luka Doncic (Lakers): Dealing with a back injury. Ruled out against the Clippers on October 28 and listed as day-to-day.
• Chet Holmgren (Thunder): Sidelined by a knee injury. Ruled out against Dallas on October 28 and listed as day-to-day.
• Alperen Sengun (Rockets): Dealing with a back injury. Ruled out against Milwaukee on October 28 and listed as day-to-day.
• Jimmy Butler III (Warriors): Recovering from a torn right ACL. Could return between January and February.
• Kristaps Porzingis (Warriors): Away from the team indefinitely because of ongoing health concerns. ESPN reported that Golden State is exploring potential trades involving him.
• Lauri Markkanen (Jazz): Sidelined by a wrist injury. Ruled out against San Antonio on October 28 and listed as day-to-day.
• Brandon Ingram (Clippers): Recovering from an Achilles injury. Expected to miss at least another week, with November 8 listed as his estimated return.
• Cason Wallace (Thunder): Diagnosed with a torn labrum in his left shoulder and requires surgery. Could miss the remainder of the season.
• Donte DiVincenzo (Timberwolves): Recovering from an Achilles injury. Remains hopeful of returning during the 2026-27 season, although ESPN lists April 2 as his estimated return.
• Ben Simmons (Kings): Underwent surgery to repair a torn right Achilles tendon. Expected to miss the season.
• Jalen Duren (Pistons): Suffered a right hamstring strain. Scheduled for reevaluation after two weeks, with November 9 listed as his estimated return.
• Coby White (Hornets): Sidelined by a calf injury. No confirmed return timetable.
• Nic Claxton (Bulls): Recovering from a hamstring injury. Participating in individual drills and hoping to return to team practices the following week.
• Dereck Lively II (Mavericks): Sidelined by a foot injury. ESPN lists November 2 as his estimated return.
• Jalen Suggs (Magic): Diagnosed with a mild bone bruise in his right knee. Scheduled for reevaluation after two weeks.
• Shaedon Sharpe (Trail Blazers): Suffered a torn meniscus. Expected to miss approximately six months, with March 2 listed as his estimated return.
• Moses Moody (Warriors): Recovering from a ruptured left patellar tendon. Targeting a potential return between December and January.
• Mark Williams (Suns): Underwent surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder. Expected to miss an extended period, with February 3 listed as his estimated return.
• Bradley Beal (Clippers): Sidelined by a knee injury. Wasn’t ready for the start of the regular season, with November 8 listed as his estimated return.
• Keegan Murray (Kings): Recovering from an ankle injury. Expected to be reevaluated within 10 to 14 days of October 26.
• Marcus Smart (Rockets): Dealing with a forearm injury. Ruled out against Milwaukee on October 28.
• Ivica Zubac (Pacers): Sidelined by an ankle injury. Ruled out against Philadelphia on October 28 and listed as day-to-day.
• Jusuf Nurkic (Jazz): Recovering from a partial plantar plate tear in his right foot. Expected to miss at least four weeks from his October 7 injury update.
• Max Strus (Clippers): Recovering from a foot injury. Expected to miss at least another week.
• Kon Knueppel (Hornets): Sidelined by a hamstring injury. No confirmed return timetable.
• Ariel Hukporti (76ers): Suffered a ruptured right Achilles tendon. Ruled out for the season.
• Johnny Furphy (Pacers): Diagnosed with a torn right ACL. Listed with a January 2 estimated return, although the supplied ESPN report describes his injury as season-ending.
• Henri Veesaar (Hawks): Diagnosed with a torn right ACL. Expected to miss the entire 2026-27 season.
• Jamir Watkins (Wizards): Underwent surgery for a torn ACL. ESPN lists April 2 as his estimated return.
• Ben Sheppard (Pacers): Underwent surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee. Expected to miss multiple months.
• Jordan Miller (Clippers): Underwent surgery to repair a torn left rotator cuff. Expected to be reevaluated after six months.
• Justin Champagnie (Wizards): Sidelined by a foot injury. Expected to miss several months.

Other banged-up players across the Association:Mouhamed Gueye, Devin Carter, Egor Demin, Tyler Bilodeau, Grant Williams, Kylan Boswell, Tobe Awaka, Patrick Williams, Sergio de Larrea, Naji Marshall, Tarik Biberovic, Santi Aldama, Cameron Johnson, Spencer Jones, Alpha Diallo, Julian Strawther, Isaiah Joe, Gui Santos, Steven Adams, T.J. McConnell, Rui Hachimura, Yanic Konan Niederhauser, Ziaire Williams, Cameron Carr, Adou Thiero, Simone Fontecchio, Jordan Poole, Yves Missi, Jose Alvarado, Alex Caruso, Thomas Sorber, Nikola Topic, Jonathan Isaac, Noah Penda, Izaiyah Nelson, Jabari Walker, Tacko Fall, Dominick Barlow, Oso Ighodaro, Chris Youngblood, Dylan Cardwell, Maxime Raynaud, Tobias Harris, Jayden Quaintance, Nate Bittle, Trey Alexander, Tre Johnson, and Tristan Vukcevic.