When Brook Lopez felt a twinge in his right foot Saturday night in Milwaukee, he also felt a knot in his stomach.
“It was scary,” Lopez said. “We wanted to make sure it was nothing. I wanted to go back in, I wanted to keep playing, but [Nets athletic trainer Tim Walsh] pulled me.”
It was understandable that Walsh pulled Lopez, given his extensive injury history with that right foot over the past four years. But Saturday’s incident — which Lopez said came from stepping on someone’s heel — turned out to be a false alarm.