We haven't had good news in so long. Need this positivity. I'm hoping for no setbacks in the days following for Nurk/Zach.
If Nurk is practicing, how long do you think it will be before he plays a game? I'm assuming they're targeting 10-days or so.... Around Feb 1st / 2nd.
Depends on the schedule I think. They probably want him playing at home first and have a few days before/after without travel to maximize practice and recovery time to evaluate his progress. I would prolly guess they'd wait til after the AS break and return on the 21st of Feb. Not really the best schedule to come back from a long rehab with all these 1 game road trips. They could potentially let him play at home and not on the road to start perhaps.
Oh as @Scalma just pointed out in the other Nurk thread, I wonder if the trade deadline has any impact on when he'll return. I still think a Hassan trade is imminent regardless of Nurk's status. But when Nurk returns might be dependent on if we can get another big back in a trade.
It would be cool if he made his debut February 9th at home, went on the trip but didn't play the first night and played in the 2nd night of the back-to-back. That way he'd have 2 "test" games under his belt before getting a full week off for recovery during the All-Star break.
WERE GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This is tremendous news! Hopefully though, it doesn't lead us to just being enough better to draw the #8 seed and get swept out by the Lakers. On the other side, (Homer Hat firmly pressed on) a #8/#1 upset over the Lakers might be 2nd only to the Title in terms of all-time Blazer great moments.
It is nice to get some good news for a change. I haven't been very optimistic since the realization three games into the schedule that this year started to smell a little " uh-oh.." Nurk....is this teams most important player (i believe that) and who knows what effect seeing #27 will have, with the combination of everything else (ariza..collins..the trade deadline) falling perfectly into place....
My fear is Blazers PR pushing out Nurk news to counteract Neil’s financially motivated trades.. Nothing has changed... Nurk was expected to come back after all star break. I find it funny that all the Blazers media is hyping his practice after Neil makes a cost cutting trade with one of the expiring contracts that he was hyping as an asset. Feels like a distraction to Neil’s failure...
