NBA Injury Report: Jalen Johnson and Alex Sarr Headline a Chaotic Questionable List
Underdog NBA tweeted the 3:00 PM ET status updates, listing eight players as questionable and four as probable.
The 3:00 PM NBA injury report is less of a medical update and more of a daily hostage negotiation for anyone with a DFS account.
Underdog NBA just dropped Wednesday's mid-afternoon casualty list, and the questionable tier is stacked enough to make a playoff run. , Alex Sarr, Ivica Zubac, Jakob Poeltl, Nic Claxton, Payton Pritchard, Trey Murphy III, and Isaiah Jackson are all officially coin flips for tonight.
The epicenter of tonight's headache is the 7:00 PM tip-off between the Atlanta and Washington . Johnson is currently questionable with an ankle injury he tweaked on Tuesday. For context, Johnson recently posted a 31-point, 18-rebound, 14-assist, 7-steal game. That is not a real basketball stat line. That is a created player on rookie difficulty. If his ankle keeps him in street clothes, Atlanta's entire offensive geometry collapses.
On the other side of the floor, Washington's 21-year-old center Alex Sarr is also a mystery box thanks to a sore left knee. He already sat out Monday's game against the . If Sarr gets scratched again, Deandre Ayton is next up to absorb the frontcourt minutes, which completely changes the paint defense for anyone looking at player props.
The probable list is much less stressful. Giannis Antetokounmpo, Coby White, Cam Johnson, and Jalen Smith are all expected to play. In modern NBA terms, probable just means a guy woke up without pulling a hamstring on his way to the bathroom.
If you are holding tickets or building lineups, you are officially in the waiting room. You cannot confidently lock in a $9,900 DFS salary on Johnson when his ankle could force a late scratch, and Sarr's status swings the entire rebounding market for Washington.
Keep refreshing your feed as we get closer to warmups. Until those final medical reports hit, every spread and prop tied to this - matchup is basically a random number generator.