Nets Insider Videos


James Harden still in rehab is a big deal with Nets training camp less than two weeks away




 James Harden was recently practicing and coaching up youth basketball players about the importance of with ethic, but that wasn't the biggest takeaway from that video.

Harden reveals to the young ballers, who he believes are not going at gamespeed, that he is out there pushing himself even though he's still technically in rehab.

Don't discount the importance of this disclosure as Harden reaggravated that same hamstring injury three times last season. 

Brooklyn's training staff was ultra cautious with regards to his return to the court, but evidently Harden's injury never fully healed and resurfaced in Game 1 of the Eastern semifinal round against Milwaukee. The Nets playmaker tried to gut it out in Games 5-7, but was not nearly healthy enough to help Kevin Durant push the team into the conference finals.

With a track record of reaggravating said injury, the Nets medical staff clearly has Harden on a gradual ramp up to get ready in time for training camp.

As the Nets are notoriously tight lipped with regards to injury news, Harden's status for training camp, which opens September 28 in San Diego, is unclear. 

General manager Sean Marks indicated that he was optimistic a contract extension would be reached for both Harden and Kyrie Irving before training camp, but as of this week, nothing has been officially announced.


0 Comments:

Post a Comment