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Larry Nance Jr.’s injury is crushing blow for Cavs defense, playmaking

Cleveland Cavaliers big Larry Nance Jr. (right) and Cleveland guard Collin Sexton contest an interior shot. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images)

The Cleveland Cavaliers have had their share of rough injury luck this season, and just as they were appearing to be mostly healthy, or at least greatly healthier, another rough bit of injury luck came.

For a tad bit of background on the player that came for should be mentioned first, though. Larry Nance Jr. had been banged up in regards to a right wrist sprain, and although he played on Saturday in Cleveland’s second leg of a home back-to-back versus the Milwaukee Bucks, he was not nearly his full self offensively in that one.