SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sacramento Kings guard Kevin Huerter will miss the remainder of the season with a left shoulder damage, coach Mike Brown confirmed on Friday.
Huerter plans to endure left shoulder surgical procedure to restore a torn labrum that he sustained on March 18 after taking contact from Memphis’ Desmond Bane on a drive to the basket. He dislocated his left shoulder on the play and had missed the final 5 video games.
The 25-year-old has been averaging 10.2 factors, 3.5 rebounds and a couple of.6 assists this season, and has began 59 video games.
Brown left open the likelihood that Huerter may return in time if the Kings make a deep playoff run, and stated Huerter will stay across the workforce and keep engaged.
“Him speaking to guys, whether or not it’s on the bench, in follow, shootaround or off the ground, it is going to be enormous,” Brown stated. “He’s going to be round as a lot as he can.”
Huerter, in his second yr with Sacramento after being acquired from the Atlanta Hawks in a commerce in 2022, was coming off a profession season final yr when he averaged 15.2 factors per recreation and shot 40.2% from 3-point vary.
Huerter’s damage means Keon Ellis will take his place within the beginning lineup for the remainder of the season. Ellis, a second-year guard who has been beginning in Huerter’s absence, has been averaging 4.4 factors in simply over quarter-hour a recreation this season.
“I’m undecided what his upside could be but, which is fairly thrilling as a result of he’s such a younger man and and he offers you a whole lot of completely different areas already,” Brown stated of Ellis.
Sacramento entered Friday’s recreation in opposition to the Dallas Mavericks within the eighth spot within the Western Convention.
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Eric He, The Related Press
