Houston Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni remains unsure when or when All-Star guard Russell Westbrook will be available in the team’s first round against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
D’Antoni said for Tuesday’s 10-10 win over Game 1 that Westbrook’s tight straight quadriceps has healed, but the team has no specific schedule for his return.
“Can ‘t exclude anything but regulate nothing in it,” D’Antoni said.
Westbrook was scheduled to undergo an MRI on Tuesday, and the results were not immediately known.
Westbrook, who was a late arrival on the NBA’s Walt Disney World Resort campus because he tested positive for COVID-19, felt searness in his right quadriceps after the Rockets’ loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on August 4th. He sat the next out of two games due to a straight quad contusion, according to the team.
Westbrook played 28 minutes in the Aug. 11 loss of Houston to the San Antonio Spurs, recording 20 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists. The Rockets announced the other day that an MRI had revealed that Westbrook had a tight muscle in his quad.
A nine-time All-Star acquisition in a blockbuster deal with the Thunder last summer, Westbrook averaged 27.2 points, 7.9 rebounds and 7.0 assists per game in his first season with the Rockets.
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