De'Andre Hunter Beats the Bug, Cleared for Sunday
De'Andre Hunter (illness) not listed on injury report for Sunday.
De'Andre Hunter has officially survived the NBA's most mysterious designation: the vague mid-week illness.
The Sacramento Kings forward is completely off the injury report for Sunday, meaning whatever bug kept him out of Friday's matchup against the has officially left his system.
For anyone holding a fantasy roster together with duct tape, this is massive. You no longer have to spend your Sunday morning refreshing Twitter to see if a grown man's immune system is ready for professional basketball.
Before calling in sick, Hunter was logging serious cardio. He played 37 minutes against the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday, putting up 14 points, and dropped 24 on the New Orleans Pelicans just a week prior.
When a guy is playing 35-plus minutes a night, a sudden illness scratch is the kind of thing that ruins a perfectly good parlay. It is the sports betting equivalent of a flat tire on the way to cash a winning ticket.
Now that he is back to full health, the Kings get their starting wing back in the mix. Expect Hunter to slide right back into his usual heavy workload on Sunday, assuming he avoids whatever gas station sushi took him out in the first place.