Derrick Jones Jr., who has began 13 video games for the Clippers this season, is averaging a career-high 10.4 factors per sport. Katelyn Mulcahy / Getty Photographs
LA Clippers small ahead Derrick Jones Jr. was identified with a Grade 2 MCL sprain of his proper knee and can miss at the very least six weeks, a workforce supply informed The Athletic Sunday.
Jones suffered the damage with 9:25 left within the fourth quarter of Saturday’s residence sport towards the Boston Celtics when capturing guard Payton Pritchard collided with Jones’ knee going for a free ball.
It’s the similar damage to the identical knee and towards the identical workforce that precipitated Jones to overlook six weeks earlier this season. In November, Jaylen Brown collided with Jones’ knee, and Jones simply returned Dec. 28 from that damage after the Clippers went 5-12 with out him.
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For the season, Jones is averaging a career-high 10.4 factors, capturing 55.6 % and making a career-best 40.0 % of his 3-pointers.
Though Jones has performed in half of LA’s 34 video games this season, he’s been a sound piece alongside Kawhi Leonard, James Harden, Ivica Zubac and Kris Dunn when he’s been wholesome. In response to NBA.com, the five-man unit of Jones, Leonard, Harden, Zubac and Dunn has performed solely 20 minutes collectively this season, however the Clippers have a internet score of plus-42.8 and maintain opponents to solely 112.5 factors per 100 possessions over that pattern dimension.
The Clippers had their six-game win streak snapped towards the Celtics. Now, Jones is anticipated to overlook the remainder of the 20 video games on the schedule earlier than the All-Star break.
