Nic Claxton suffered a finger injury during the Nets’ 130-126 double overtime loss to the Celtics on Friday night and will appear for the taping on Saturday.
The Brooklyn center hurt his right pinkie and left the game before returning to finish with 18 points, nine rebounds, four assists and two blocks in 39 minutes.
“It’s painful. I really don’t know. I just need to get x-rays, MRIs. So I don’t know,” Claxton said. “It does hurt. It was just stuck, so I just put some tape on it. I’ll probably know more (Saturday).”
It’s uncertain exactly how much clarity Claxton or Brooklyn will get.
Claxton is tentatively scheduled to shoot Saturday morning in New York, while the team flies to California around noon. There’s a chance he’ll get imaging once they arrive.
Either way, the results won’t be available immediately.
The Nets begin a five-game road trip with Sunday’s game against the Clippers.
If Claxton can’t play, Day’Ron Sharpe would likely get his fourth start of the season.
Michael Porter Jr. had 30 points and eight rebounds in a rebound effort after Wednesday’s awful performance against the Knicks.
The forward had shot just 41.4 percent overall and 33.3 percent from deep in eight games since spraining his MCL against Orlando.
“Yeah, I think it’s going to be a turn,” Porter said. “The last eight or nine games, since that Orlando game, I haven’t felt as explosive with my cuts and everything. So I feel like I’ve lost a little bit of weight. But that’s mainly because of that knee pain.”
“But the good thing was that it wasn’t anything I couldn’t play through, nothing structural. It wasn’t unsafe to play, it just hurt a little bit. So I decided to play through it, not let it rest; and I just get the feeling that it’s not a problem anymore. It felt the best it ever has; so I think it will be 100% again by the next two games.”
Cam Thomas, perhaps Brooklyn’s best bucket-getter, suddenly can’t buy a basket anymore. He had seven points on 2-for-8 shooting Friday, and 0-for-2 from deep.
In his last eight games, Thomas is averaging 8.9 points on 29.8 percent from the floor and 27.3 from behind the arc in 22 minutes for a minus-6.9.
But he said he is completely healthy, that he just does what is asked of him.
“I’m playmaking. They wanted to see the playmaking,” Thomas said. “I’m coming off the couch. Take what you can get.”
Jordi Fernández on Egor Dëmin and fellow teenage Real Madrid product Hugo Gonzalez: “We all know how big international basketball is in the NBA. … The NBA doesn’t look at your passport, which is a good thing, especially nowadays. You are welcome and you can grow in this league.”
Dëmin recorded just 21:05 to Nolan Traore’s 36:51, but Fernández said the former was not ‘punished’.
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