According to Mavs PR, star Luka Doncic will miss at least one week with a wrist injury he sustained in recent weeks. K&C discuss whether he'll be back after one week or if it'll take longer for him to heal, as well as if the Mavs can weather the storm of the NBA season without him.
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00:00This might be a weird take, but it's been popping around in my head since we heard the
00:20breaking news on Sean Nargett, and some people are saying he'll be back in a week.
00:24No, no.
00:25He will be re-evaluated in a week, so we'll see where it goes from there.
00:29Putting aside the obvious, you'd never want to have injuries, but if you did, is this
00:37not a more advantageous time to suffer this injury than at any point later in the season
00:44just because your schedule is soft?
00:46I don't mean in terms of the playoffs and everything, just because your schedule's soft
00:49right now.
00:50Yes and no.
00:51So I'm the opposite of that.
00:52I want to play all my best players against the worst teams.
00:55Because you know you've got pretty much a guarantee.
00:57I need to win those games.
00:58At the end of the year, you don't go, well, they won 52 games, but they were against most
01:02of the average to bad teams.
01:03Look, they're the three seed.
01:04They won 52 games.
01:07I think it's weird at times where you're like, let's sit them out against Utah, then you
01:11lose the Utah game, then you're like, let's play them against, I know they won the Oklahoma
01:15City game, but let's play against Oklahoma City.
01:19And I know that I'm just using that for an example, that's a bad example, but I'm using
01:22it.
01:23You're like, wait a second, shouldn't we kind of go all out, make sure you get the Utah
01:26wins and the New Orleans win when they don't have anybody.
01:30Hey, what's the chance of beating Denver?
01:3250-50, like, hey, you could go either way.
01:34It's a very even matchup.
01:38What's the chance of beating Utah?
01:3990%.
01:40What if we sit a player out?
01:41Oh, it gets to be closer to 50-50 if you sit out Kyrie or Luka in that game.
01:45So I'm kind of of that mindset, but I'm with you on this.
01:51If you can promise me Luka is close to 100% in April, I'd rather have him close to 100%
01:58in April and then dealing with, and I do think this is a real injury, I don't want anybody
02:01to get this, he's not, to me, he's not faking a wrist injury, it's that he fakes so many
02:06things that I don't know when he's really hurt on the basketball court.