Posted on April 10, 2021 at 2:37 p.m.
Guillaume Issner
The Los Angeles Clippers will have to do without Patrick Beverley for a month. The leader was operated on on his left hand. On the Miami side, Victor Oladipo, victim of a new relapse, will miss the next four matches due to a knee injury that could keep the former Pacers player away even longer.
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Oladipo again on the side, Beverley absent for a month. While he would prefer to help his team on the floor, Patrick Beverley goes back and forth to the infirmary. Absent for twelve games between March 12 and April 4 due to a knee injury, the leader of the Clippers made his return Wednesday against Portland and chained two days later against Phoenix. But now, nothing happened as he had planned. The 32-year-old injured his left hand in the last quarter just before being sent off for nasty nudging Chris Paul. The diagnosis was made public by the California franchise. Beverley suffers from a fractured fourth metacarpal and had surgery on Friday. It will be reassessed within three to four weeks. “It’s just difficult. Because Pat is a hard worker and has done whatever it takes to get back. He is a warrior and he will be back as soon as he can, ”lamented his trainer Tyronn Lue in comments reported by ESPN. The Clippers, third in the West, will therefore have to do without Beverley for almost all of the last row of the regular season.
Oladipo relapses, Miami trembles …
On the Miami side, it’s also grimaceous soup on the menu, with the new injury of Victor Oladipo, who has only had time to play four matches since his arrival during the trade deadline. Friday, the back of the Heat was forced out during the last quarter against the Lakers, a game in which he scored 18 points. After a dunk, the former Indiana landed badly on his right knee, the same right knee to which the player of Nigerian origin was seriously injured in 2019, hence the legitimate concern of the Florida franchise. The nature of Oladipo’s injury is not known, but ESPN informs that the double All-Star will not be able to take part in the road trip to the West of the Heat, which will start on the night of Sunday to Monday against Portland. Travel to Phoenix, Denver and Minnesota will follow next week and the player who started the season with the Houston Rockets jersey on his back will also be missed. It remains to be seen whether the man with 19.8 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4.6 assists on average per game over the current fiscal year will be fit Sunday, April 18 (9:30 p.m.) against the Nets. In the meantime, his frankness is shaking.
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