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OAKLAND – The text message captured Jordan Bell’s nearly season-long frustration with persistent ankle injuries and fluctuating playing time.
“Maybe I need to sit this whole season out,” Bell wrote. “I can get healthy.”
Sharrief Metoyer, Bell’s former high school coach at Long Beach Poly in Los Angeles, first received a text hinting at Bell’s want to sit out the rest of the 2017-18 season when he rehabbed a left ankle injury that kept him sidelined for 14 games from mid-January through mid-February.