Keyonte George Ruled Out Tuesday With Ankle Injury
Underdog NBA: 'Keyonte George (ankle) ruled out for Tuesday.'
Keyonte George is officially ruled out for Tuesday with an ankle injury, which honestly might be the best news Utah Jazz fans have heard all week.
The last time George tried to play through a questionable tag, he suited up against the with an illness and dropped a stat line that requires a wellness check. Zero points and eight turnovers in 20 minutes is not a bad night. That is a full-scale public audit.
Now it is a left ankle sprain keeping the guard in street clothes. If you scroll through his injury history over the last couple of seasons, it reads like a podiatrist's final exam. He has racked up a concerning number of foot and ankle tags since entering the league.
For the prop bettors and fantasy managers scrambling to adjust their Tuesday lineups, this is a forced pivot. But let us be real, you are better off taking a voided ticket than watching a compromised player try to run an NBA offense on a bad wheel.
The Jazz are already a tough watch on their best days, and George is supposed to be the guy making this rebuild tolerable. When he is healthy, Utah has a pulse. When he is missing, they look like a team that would lose a scrimmage to a local YMCA squad.
Utah will have to duct-tape their backcourt rotation together for Tuesday night. George gets a mandatory rest day, and the Jazz front office should probably hide his sneakers until that ankle is actually fully functional.