The Nets will be without their best player for the foreseeable future.
Michael Porter Jr. is set to miss at least two weeks with a strained left hamstring, which could leave Brooklyn without their top scorer for the remainder of the season.
Porter, 27, underwent an MRI exam on Wednesday that revealed the injury, and he will be reevaluated in two to three weeks, the team announced Thursday.
Before developing the hamstring injury, Porter had already been sidelined for three games because of a sprained right ankle.
Since arriving in Brooklyn after being traded by the Nuggets ahead of this season, Porter has had a career year, averaging 24.2 points and 7.1 rebounds while shooting 46.3 percent from the field and 36.3 percent from beyond the arc across 52 games.
With a 17-52 record, fourth-worst in the league, the Nets are seemingly in no rush to bring back Porter as they are vying for a top pick in this year’s NBA draft.
The Nets hold a 14-38 record this season when Porter is on the floor compared to a 3-14 record when he is on the sidelines.
Porter’s injury comes after rookie Egor Dёmin’s season was cut short because of plantar fasciitis, and it was announced Wednesday that the former lottery pick had a successful surgery.
“Everything went well, and now it’s just the process of rehab and getting back on the court as soon as the season ends, as we planned,” Dëmin, 20, told reporters on Wednesday.
“Hopefully everything’s going to go in the right direction and I’ll be able to get back to work as soon as I can.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
