The promising season of Anthony Randolph is effectively over, per the San Francisco Chronicle.
He is projected to miss about two months with multiple left ankle injuries, the team announced before Monday’s game against Cleveland.
An MRI exam revealed Randolph has two torn ligaments on the outside of the ankle and an avulsion fracture where an inside ligament pulled away from the bone. He’ll be in a protective boot for three weeks before starting rehabilitation, which usually takes at least four weeks for similar injuries.
It sure looked like Randolph was ready for a breakout season after torching the summer league. He averaged 11.6 points and 6.5 rebounds, but played just 23 minutes per game for a bad team. He even ended up being the subject of a lot of trade talk before the injury. The Warriors know that he has a ton of upside, but they don’t seem to want to keep him. It’s unlikely now that teams will try to acquire him, though since he’s still on his rookie contract, there isn’t much downside. Generally, when a player gets injured, the trade talk stops until he comes back and proves that he can still play. That will probably be the case with Randolph as well.
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The Hawks beat the shorthanded Celtics, 102-96, in Boston, and are now 3-0 against the C’s this season. Johnson hit 14 of 25 shots (including 5 of 7 threes) to score 36 points. He had a rather thin line, with just three rebounds and one assist, but the Hawks needed him to score last night, and that’s what he did.
