{"id":218953,"date":"2025-10-17T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218953\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T00:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:17:07","slug":"injury-notes-sochan-george-demin-suggs-k-jones-ingles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218953\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Notes: Sochan, George, Demin, Suggs, K. Jones, Ingles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spurs will be without forward Jeremy Sochan<\/a> when they open their regular season in Dallas next Wednesday night, according to the team (Twitter link<\/a> via Jared Weiss of The Athletic).<\/p>\n

Ramping up this fall from a calf injury<\/a> he sustained during the summer, Sochan had progressed to 5-on-5 scrimmages this week and was trending toward potentially being available for opening night. However, the Spurs say that he sprained his left wrist in practice on Thursday. He\u2019ll enter the regular season considered day-to-day, per the club.<\/p>\n

Sochan is one of 15 players who remain eligible<\/a> to sign rookie scale extensions. If he and the Spurs don\u2019t agree to terms on or before Monday, he\u2019ll be on track to play out his contract year and become eligible for restricted free agency next summer.<\/p>\n

We have more injury updates from around the NBA:<\/p>\n

After progressing to 3-on-3 work on Wednesday<\/a>, Sixers forward Paul George<\/a> took another step forward on Thursday, fully participating in practice, including 5-on-5 action, tweets<\/a> Derek Bodner of PHLY Sports. However, head coach Nick Nurse quickly replied \u201cno\u201d when asked if there\u2019s optimism about George suiting up for Friday\u2019s preseason finale or next Wednesday\u2019s regular season opener (Twitter video link<\/a>). \u201cYesterday was his first day live,\u201d Nurse said. \u201c\u2026 Today was a short amount of 5-on-5, so we have to just keep waiting.\u201d
\nNo. 8 overall pick Egor Demin<\/a> will make his preseason debut for the Nets on Friday vs. Toronto, writes Brian Lewis of The New York Post<\/a>. Demin has been dealing with a plantar fascia tear during training camp and the preseason, but it appears he\u2019ll be ready for the start of the season unless he experiences a setback before then.
\nMagic guard Jalen Suggs<\/a> responded well to the limited contact work he did this week, but there are still hurdles to clear before he\u2019s cleared for game action, head coach Jamahl Mosley said on Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019ll have a couple more scrimmages where we\u2019ll be able to go live, some 3-on-3, some 5-on-5, and we\u2019ll see how he responds after each one of those days,\u201d Mosley said, per Jason Beede of The Orlando Sentinel<\/a> (subscription required). \u201cThen we\u2019ll be able to tell you accordingly, you\u2019ll know whether he is or isn\u2019t [ready] on opening night.\u201d
\nAfter announcing last week<\/a> that rookie guard Kam Jones<\/a> could miss multiple weeks due to a back issue, Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle provided an update on Thursday, telling Dustin Dopirak of The Indianapolis Star (Twitter link<\/a>) to check back in on Jones around November 9. That\u2019s the same date that T.J. McConnell<\/a> (hamstring<\/a>) is scheduled to be reevaluated.
\nTimberwolves forward Joe Ingles<\/a>, diagnosed last week with a left groin strain, has been cleared for basketball activities and will be available for Thursday\u2019s game against Chicago, the team announced today in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spurs will be without forward Jeremy Sochan when they open their regular season in Dallas next Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,14304,43113,71862,84276,133656,31650,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-218953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-egor-demin","12":"tag-jalen-suggs","13":"tag-jeremy-sochan","14":"tag-joe-ingles","15":"tag-kam-jones","16":"tag-paul-george","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}