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Top NBA Players Returning from Injury for 2024-25
An injury can destroy your season in the NBA — both in real life and fantasy. This happens in every sport, but in a game with only five starters and where the superstar power is at its peak, this is particularly true in the NBA. The usage rates are through the roof, so losing a key player could effectively be the reason why a team can miss out on a playoff spot, such as the Grizzlies last year.
Here, we’ll take a look at five players who missed time during the 2023-24 season, either considerable periods or key stretches of the campaign, but should be healthy for the upcoming season. These players have the capacity to improve a team’s playoff chances dramatically.
Players like Kristaps Porzingis are not included on this list. We have decided to limit the piece to players who will be ready for the start of the regular season in October, and Porzingis won’t be ready to return to the Celtics until late November or early December in an absolute best-case scenario. Porzingis underwent a successful surgery to repair a torn retinaculum and dislocated posterior tibialis tendon following the 2024 NBA Finals and is expected to return near the end of the calendar year.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at five players who missed considerable time in the 2023-24 NBA season but should be ready to go in time for the start of the 2024-25 campaign.
Randle was limited to just 46 regular-season appearances in 2023-24, a career-low mark when excluding his rookie year in which he played just one game in 2014-15. He sustained a shoulder injury that required surgery and kept him sidelined since Jan. 27. The star power forward was productive when available, though, as he averaged 24.0 points, 9.2 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 0.5 steals per game while shooting 47.2 percent from the field and 31.1 percent from three-point range. Those numbers are far from eye-popping, particularly with regards to his efficiency, but Randle has been one of the most consistent power forwards in the league over the last five years, averaging at least 19.5 points and 9.2 rebounds per game in each of those…
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Publish date : 2024-09-11 08:48:00
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