the spanish player Usman Garuba, of the Houston Rockets, which has injured left wrist, He will be indefinitely low with his team and could have to go through the operating room. Rockets coach Stephen Silas revealed Garuba’s situation on Tuesday at the press conference prior to the match they lost to the San Antonio Spurs (104-134). “I don’t know exactly what happened to him. I know he fell,” the coach said. “I talked to him about it and he said, ‘Yeah, I fell, but I didn’t think it was such a bad thing.’ But it turns out it’s a pretty bad injury. He’s going to be out for a while,” he added.
Asked by the journalists if it was a fracture, Silas did not know how to answer but he did indicate that there were “conversations” within the team about Garuba finally needing surgery to solve this injury.
Chosen in the 23rd position in the last draft, the 19-year-old former Real Madrid player has alternated in his first season in the United States his appearances for the Rockets with his appearances in the development league G League. With the Houston franchise, Garuba has played 15 games in which he has averaged 1.3 points, 2.3 rebounds and 0.5 assists in an average of 7 minutes per game. With the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, the Rockets affiliated team in the G League, Garuba has averaged 9 points, 9.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.4 blocks in the 5 games he has played. has disputed.