Warriors’ Looney possible out for Finals with fracture
Adrian WojnarowskiESPN
Golden State Warriors ahead Kevon Looney is prone to be misplaced for the remainder of the NBA Finals with a proper higher physique fracture of the primary costal cartilage.
Looney “shall be out indefinitely,” the Warriors confirmed Monday night time, following an MRI within the San Francisco Bay Space after he missed the second half of Sunday’s 109-104 NBA Finals Sport 2 victory on the Toronto Raptors. The costal cartilage join the sternum to the ribs.
With out Looney, the Warriors will develop into extra depending on middle DeMarcus Cousins, who made a powerful return from his personal damage woes in Sport 2.
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Looney gave the impression to be dragging his proper shoulder within the first half, however it’s unclear precisely when he suffered the damage.
In the meantime, there’s optimism among the many Warriors that swingman Klay Thompson will play with a light hamstring pressure in Sport three in Oakland on Wednesday, a league supply advised ESPN. He’ll rehab the damage over the following two days.
Thompson, who’s formally listed as “questionable” for the following sport, exited within the fourth quarter of Sport 2 with left hamstring tightness. He stated after the sport that he anticipated to play Sport three, with the sequence tied at one sport apiece.
The outcomes of Thompson’s MRI have been barely delayed as a result of the Warriors’ constitution aircraft landed later than anticipated Monday morning, pushing again the method a number of hours. The aircraft did not arrive again in Oakland till after four a.m. native time Monday.
The Sport 2 accidents have been the newest setbacks for a Warriors group already taking part in with out its star Kevin Durant, who continues rehabbing a proper calf damage. In the meantime, swingman Andre Iguodala is coping with a lingering calf damage.
The Warriors stay buoyed by the truth that they nonetheless discovered a solution to win Sport 2 and the idea that Durant shall be again in some unspecified time in the future on this sequence. Kerr stated earlier than Sunday’s sport that it was “possible” Durant may take part in a observe, then play in a Finals sport.
A second Warriors flight out of Toronto, carrying workers and members of the family, was scheduled to depart after Sport 2 however had a mechanical challenge that compelled the aircraft to return to its gate. The second flight arrived safely in Oakland late Monday afternoon. Workers members touring on the coaches and gamers’ aircraft stated they have been completely satisfied to have been on the primary flight out.
ESPN’s Nick Friedell contributed to this report.