CJ McCollum Fully Practices Tuesday
5 months agoNew Orleans Pelicans head coach Willie Green said guard CJ McCollum (lung) was a full participant in Tuesday's practice. It perhaps contradicts Green's prior statement that doctors have yet to clear McCollum to resume basketball activities, suddenly giving the star combo guard a fighting chance to suit up on Wednesday versus the Sacramento Kings. McCollum was diagnosed with a small pneumothorax in his right lung on Nov. 5, which has kept him in indefinite shutdown mode ever since. The 32-year-old also experienced a collapsed right lung during 2020-21 that shelved him for six weeks, so the Pelicans are sure to play things as cautiously as possible here. McCollum, putting up third-round 9-category fantasy value with 21.7 points, 5.7 assists, 3.2 threes, and 1.7 steals in 34.3 minutes per game, should probably still be considered doubtful to play on Wednesday against the Kings unless we hear otherwise.
Source: Christian Clark - The New Orleans Times-Picayune
Source: Christian Clark - The New Orleans Times-Picayune