{"id":8013,"date":"2025-10-18T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/8013\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:42:07","slug":"injury-notes-queen-white-brown-raptors-rockets-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/8013\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Notes: Queen, White, Brown, Raptors, Rockets, More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rookie big man Derik Queen<\/a> has been medically cleared to participate in full basketball activities, the Pelicans announced today (via Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Head coach Willie Green said Queen was a full participant in Saturday\u2019s practice, tweets<\/a> Will Guillory of The Athletic. While the team wants to get Queen up to speed, Green said New Orleans will be careful not to rush the process after a lengthy layoff.<\/p>\n

Queen has been rehabilitating from July surgery<\/a> to address a torn scapholunate ligament in his left wrist, an injury he sustained at Summer League in Las Vegas. He was a limited participant<\/a> during New Orleans\u2019 training camp due to the injury.<\/p>\n

Queen was selected with the 13th overall pick in June after the Pelicans sent<\/a> Atlanta this year\u2019s No. 23 selection and an unprotected 2026 first-rounder (the most favorable of New Orleans\u2019 and Milwaukee\u2019s picks) for the right to draft the Maryland big man, who was highly productive in his lone season with the Terrapins.\u00a0In 36 games last season, the 20-year-old forward\/center averaged 16.5 points, 9.0 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.1 blocks in 30.4 minutes per contest.<\/p>\n

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

Bulls guard Coby White<\/a>, who has been battling a calf strain since August and didn\u2019t play in any preseason games this fall, \u201clooked good\u201d after going through most of the contact portions of Saturday\u2019s practice, according to head coach Billy Donovan (Twitter<\/a> links<\/a> K.C. Johnson of Chicago Sports Network). Donovan added that White would go through additional contact work on Monday after taking Sunday off. For his part, White said he was encouraged by today\u2019s session, though he cautioned he\u2019s still working on regaining his conditioning and rhythm. \u201cWe\u2019ll see. It\u2019s in the works,\u201d White said of potentially playing in Chicago\u2019s season opener, per Johnson.
\nCeltics star Jaylen Brown<\/a> sustained a left hamstring injury<\/a> in Wednesday\u2019s preseason finale. As Jay King of The Athletic<\/a> writes, head coach Joe Mazzulla didn\u2019t say whether Brown would be active for next Wednesday\u2019s season opener, but the injury doesn\u2019t sound serious \u2014 Brown is considered day-to-day, per Mazzulla.
\nRaptors head coach Darko Rajakovic expressed optimism that lottery pick Collin Murray-Boyles<\/a> could be ready for Wednesday\u2019s season opener in Atlanta after the former South Carolina forward sustained an arm injury<\/a> last week, tweets<\/a> Josh Lewenberg of TSN.ca. According to Michael Grange of Sportsnet.ca (Twitter<\/a> links<\/a>), Murray-Boyles is day-to-day with a right forearm strain.
\nAlthough Raptors center Jakob Poeltl<\/a> missed time during preseason with lower back stiffness and exited Friday\u2019s preseason finale with the same injury, Rajakovic clarified after the game that the Austrian big man was pulled for precautionary reasons (Twitter<\/a> links<\/a> via Lewenberg). Poeltl is under contract through 2029\/30 after signing a lucrative long-term extension<\/a> in July.
\nForward Jae\u2019Sean Tate<\/a>, who underwent offseason ankle surgery, went through contract drills in Saturday\u2019s practice, per Rockets head coach Ime Udoka (Twitter link<\/a> via Danielle Lerner of The Houston Chronicle). The team remains optimistic that Tate will be available for Houston\u2019s season opener, but Dorian Finney-Smith<\/a> probably won\u2019t be, according to Udoka. Finney-Smith, a free agent addition, is recovering from June ankle surgery.
\nFormer Alabama forward Grant Nelson<\/a> was originally expected to sign an Exhibit 10 deal with the Nets shortly after Summer League in July, but the signing<\/a> was delayed until a few days ago due to an otherwise unspecified \u201cstress reaction from overworking,\u201d he told Brian Lewis of The New York Post<\/a>. \u201cIt was like a small, little minor injury that held me out of training camp. And then I feel like I did everything I could. I caught the injury really early, so I wasn\u2019t out long. But it worked out perfect. So now I\u2019m back healthy, feeling 100 percent.\u201d
\nBackup Lakers center Jaxson Hayes<\/a> exited Friday\u2019s preseason finale with a right wrist contusion, the team announced (Twitter link<\/a> via Dan Woike of The Athletic). Head coach JJ Redick said after the game that X-Rays on the wrist were negative, with another update on Hayes expected to come on Sunday, as veteran NBA report Mark Medina relays (via Twitter<\/a>).
\nTrail Blazers forward Deni Avdija<\/a> experienced upper back stiffness on Thursday in Utah, causing him to exit Portland\u2019s preseason finale, per the team (Twitter link<\/a>). It\u2019s unclear if Avdija will miss additional time as a result of the injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie big man Derik Queen has been medically cleared to participate in full basketball activities, the Pelicans announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[7065,7066,7067,7068,7069,7070,7071,7072,7073,7074,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-8013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-coby-white","9":"tag-collin-murray-boyles","10":"tag-deni-avdija","11":"tag-derik-queen","12":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","13":"tag-grant-nelson","14":"tag-jaesean-tate","15":"tag-jakob-poeltl","16":"tag-jaxson-hayes","17":"tag-jaylen-brown","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-queens","22":"tag-queens-headlines","23":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}