Egor Demin Exits Tuesday's Game With Leg Injury
Status alert: Egor Demin (leg) won't return Tuesday.
The Brooklyn Nets are going to have to finish Tuesday night without their point guard. Egor Demin has been officially ruled out for the rest of the game with a leg injury, according to an update from Underdog NBA.
Mid-game injury alerts are the absolute worst kind of notification to get on your phone. One minute you are watching a game in peace, and the next you are scrambling to figure out what happened to your live bets and fantasy lineups while the broadcast cuts to commercial.
Demin has been running the point for Brooklyn wearing number eight, trying to navigate an NBA rotation that is always desperate for stability. Losing your floor general on a random Tuesday is exactly the kind of chaotic wrinkle that throws a team's entire offensive script into the blender.
The Nets now have to patch together their backcourt minutes on the fly. When a primary ball-handler goes down unexpectedly, an NBA offense usually devolves into a lot of standing around and hoping someone hits a contested jumper at the end of the shot clock.
For now, everyone is just waiting on the inevitable postgame press conference and the dreaded medical update. If this leg issue lingers, Brooklyn is going to have to make some uncomfortable rotation choices before their next tip-off.