Nicolas Batum Injury: Updates on Trail Blazers Star's Wrist and Return
The injury woes continue to pile up for the Portland Trail Blazers, as small forward Nicolas Batum appeared to aggravate an existing problem with his wrist Thursday night against the Boston Celtics. After missing two straight games, he has said he's mostly pain-free ahead of Portland's game against Cleveland and he returned Wednesday night.
Continue for updates.
Batum Returns vs. Cavaliers
Wednesday, Jan. 28
Casey Holdahl of the Trail Blazers repoted Batum would return against Cleveland.
On Tuesday, Jan. 27, Freeman passed along comments from Batum on his injured wrist, who said his injured wrist is mostly pain-free.
Batum Misses 2nd Straight Game
Saturday, Jan. 24
The Trail Blazers report Batum will not play Saturday vs. the Wizards due to his wrist injury.
Jason Quick of The Oregonian reported this injury could be a flare up of something Batum damaged last month:
Batum Exits vs. Celtics With Wrist Injury
Thursday, Jan. 22
He left the game early in the third quarter and was quickly ruled out, per the team's official Twitter feed:
Jason Quick of The Oregonian added more on the potential severity of the injury:
Batum's numbers have been down across the board this season, with his poor shooting (28.1 percent from beyond the arc entering Thursday) likely a result of a lingering wrist injury that has been bothering him since December. He seemed to break out of his slump on Wednesday, though, knocking down six threes on his way to a season-high 27 points.
As he seemed to finally be getting healthy, and with LaMarcus Aldridge out for at least six weeks, per The Columbian's Erik Gundersen, the timing on this couldn't be much worse for the Blazers.
If Batum is sidelined for an extended period of time, Dorrell Wright will likely see the biggest uptick in minutes.
