Storyline: Tyler Lydon Injury
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Chris Dempsey: Gary Harris (adductor), meanwhile, will not play again until after the All Star break. Also, Tyler Lydon is out of the game as he is in concussion protocol. #Nuggets
Harrison Wind: From Nuggets shootaround: Tyler Lydon (concussion protocol) will be out for tonight’s game against the Heat. Paul Millsap (ankle) is questionable.
Lydon had ditched the yellow sleeve on his left leg by the Nuggets’ second summer league practice, the latest sign that he is ready to get back on the court starting Friday in Las Vegas. “Each day, it gets better and better, and I feel even more and more comfortable with it,” Lydon said. “Mentally, I know my knee’s good. I know it’s 100 percent, so I’m ready to go.”
Lydon has been cleared to play 5-on-5 basketball for about a month. Nuggets assistant Jordi Fernandez, who is coaching this year’s summer league team, has noticed some early tentativeness from Lydon in the form of passed-up shots. Lydon is expected to be in Denver’s starting lineup for Friday’s summer league opener against Minnesota, a setting in which he struggled last year because the style can veer toward a pickup game rather than running a structured system.
Gina Mizell: Michael Malone confirms during his pregame availability that rookie forward Tyler Lydon’s estimated recovery time from arthroscopic knee surgery is four months. Got injured during a G League game Wednesday, had surgery Friday. #Nuggets
League sources have confirmed to Mile High Sports that Tyler Lydon tore his meniscus in his left knee and that there is no structural damage to his knee beyond the torn meniscus. The Nuggets’ are relieved that the injury was not worse.
Adrian Wojnarowski: Denver Nuggets forward Tyler Lydon’s left knee surgery will sideline him for four months, league source tells ESPN.
Harrison Wind: Nuggets forward Tyler Lydon will likely miss the remainder of his rookie season with a torn meniscus in his left knee, league sources tell @BSNDenver.
October 23, 2019 | 11:54 am EDT Update
Knicks adding Ivan Rabb
Shams Charania: Forward Ivan Rabb is finalizing a two-way NBA contract with the New York Knicks, league sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
The 6-10, 220-pound Rabb played parts of two seasons with Memphis, averaging 5.7 points and 4.3 rebounds in 85 games (18 starts.) Rabb is not with the Knicks in San Antonio. The Knicks backed out of a verbal agreement with Wilkes because of an undisclosed illness. The Post reported they hadn’t ruled out signing Wilkes later in the year. The Knicks’ other two-way signee is Kadeem Allen.
What do you got to say to people that keep asking you about your jump shot? Nothing really. … I don’t care. I’m working, what do you want me to do? I’m working. That’s all a part of it. Everybody has things they’re not good at or as good at, and that was one of my weaknesses for sure, 100 percent. Everybody has a weakness. But I’m still dropping 18 points, nine rebounds and eight assists. And that’s at a superhigh level. There’s not many guys — probably three, four guys — in the NBA who are doing that.
The 2020 Olympics. Should we be expecting you to suit up for Australia’s basketball team in Japan? Ben Simmons: If everything goes smoothly and correctly, that’s where I want to be. I definitely want to represent Australia in the Olympics. It’s a dream. And if I’m able to bring a medal and help this team and do something right for the country and bring a positive light to it, I would love to do that. And I want to do that alongside Patty Mills, hopefully [Andrew] Bogut, [Aron] Baynes, Dante [Exum], Joe Ingles, all those guys. I want to do that with them, and I think we can do something special.
Anything that you noticed racismwise when you came to the United States? Ben Simmons: The best example would be just seeing Confederate flags on the back of trucks, stickers, even in certain restaurants in Louisiana. I was like, ‘Yo, this is different.’ I wouldn’t go in certain places if I saw the flag. But some of my teammates were oblivious to it to where they would go in and I’m like, ‘I kind of want to go in there and rip that down, then I’ll come in.’ But it’s things like that. Just knowing there is still that side of racism and people who are narrow-minded towards other people and other people’s beliefs and just people of a different race.
Darren Rovell: The Big Baller Brand is officially dead. The site now forwards to the Baller Financial Network, created by LaVar’s former business partner Alan Foster, who the Balls are suing for allegedly embezzling $1.5 million from Lonzo.
LA Sports Radio: Things keep getting worse for Big Baller Brand, if you go to their site you get redirected to Alan Foster’s personal site 😂
