The lesions keep piling up on the Cleveland Cavalierssince according to journalist Marc Stein, Caris LeVert will be away 2 weeks from the NBA courts for a sprained ankle right.
LeVert, 27, has barely played 4 games for his new team, after being traded from the Indiana Pacers.
In these 4 games, the guard has averaged 13.3 points, 3.8 assists, 1.5 steals, in 31 minutes of play, far from the 18.7 points and 4.4 assists he had on average in 39 games with the Pacers.
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Just this morning, the Cavaliers reported that both LeVert and darius garland would miss this afternoon’s game against the Detroit Pistonswith Garland suffering from back pain, and LeVert from his aforementioned ankle, although it was not yet reported that he will miss 2 weeks.
Cleveland has battled injuries all year, starting it all with Colin Sextonanother of the young pillars of the team, who dtore the meniscus of a knee, and he will lose the whole year, while Ricky Rubio suffered cruciate ligament rupture in a knee, also losing the rest of the campaign.
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The Cavaliers cannot afford to lose a third game in a row, since at the moment they are in fourth position in the Eastern Conference, which would qualify them for the playoffs directly, but they are 2.5 games away from falling to seventh place, with which they would enter play in.
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