Damn, the injury bug is no joke.
Add Jeremy Lin to the list of injured, as the Nets PG/SG is done for the season after rupturing his right patellar tendon in Wednesday’s season-opening loss to the Pacers. He joins Celtics SG/SF Gordon Hayward (fractured ankle/broken tibia) as those whose 2017-18 seasons came and went far too soon.
Lin had scored 18 points and added four assists in 25 minutes of work in the 140-131 loss to the Pacers. Granted, no one expects the Nets to look like Doug Moe’s Nuggets teams of the early 1980s, but the team showed a “let’s roll out the ball and ride like the wind for 48 minutes” style that will at least be entertaining for a team who will be overmatched on a nightly basis.