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Golden State Warriors guard De’Anthony Melton has suffered an ACL sprain, the team announced Thursday.
The injury will hold him out of Friday’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies, and he will undergo further testing to determine a full recovery timeline.
“He’s obviously a really important player for us and is a guy who we envisioned as, and has done a good job at, the starting 2-guard,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “It’s a concern, for sure. We’ll know more over the next few days.”
Melton suffered the sprain during Tuesday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks, although it’s unclear when it happened. Melton never left the game, and he finished with 14 points, 4 assists and 4 rebounds in 26 minutes.
He had started the previous two games, and Kerr said he wanted to keep Melton in that starting group moving forward.
Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers wasn’t sure it was a good thing that Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 22 of the team’s 24 first-quarter points Wednesday night.
But Rivers could smile about it after Antetokounmpo finished with 59 points in the Bucks’ 127-120 overtime victory against the Detroit Pistons. It was the highest total by any NBA player this season and five short of Antetokounmpo’s career high of 64 set last season against the Indiana Pacers.
“I’ve seen a lot of great games as a player. Sitting next to Dominique [Wilkins], you obviously see a lot of great games,” Rivers said, referring to his former Atlanta Hawks teammate. “It’s funny how a coach thinks, though. We called a timeout and Giannis has 22 of our 24. This ain’t good. I’m thinking the exact opposite. We’ve got to get somebody else involved in this.
