CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 So much for the Cavs getting close full strength. <\/p>\n
A few hours ahead of the home matchup with the Boston Celtics, Cleveland released injury updates on three important rotational players. <\/p>\n
The most significant injury came during Friday night\u2019s 130-123 loss to the Atlanta Hawks, as reserve forward Larry Nance Jr. \u2014 one of the team\u2019s prized offseason additions \u2014 injured his right calf. An MRI conducted Saturday revealed a Grade 1 soleus strain, with Nance expected to miss approximately 3-4 weeks. <\/p>\n
Along with Nance, center Jarrett Allen could be sidelined for the next week. <\/p>\n
Allen, who missed three games before playing 28 minutes on Friday, is still dealing with a painful right finger strain. Given that he also has a non-displaced fracture in his left ringer \u2014 an injury suffered on Oct. 29 \u2014 Cleveland felt it best to temporarily shut Allen down. Listed as out for Sunday night, Allen will likely miss Monday\u2019s game in Indiana, Wednesday versus Portland and next weekend\u2019s back-to-back \u2014 San Antonio and Golden State. <\/p>\n
With a pair of frontcourt rotational members sidelined simultaneously, the Cavs will turn to two-way big man Nae\u2019Qwan Tomlin and rarely used center Thomas Bryant. <\/p>\n
Reserve marksman Sam Merrill, set to miss his sixth consecutive game Sunday, is considered day-to-day with a sprained right hand while Max Strus continues to make steady progress in his recovery from offseason foot surgery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 So much for the Cavs getting close full strength. A few hours ahead of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-317171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}