Rockets’ Wall ready to come back
Rockets guard John Wall said he is ready to return after missing four games with fluid buildup on his left knee. But he said it was more than the knee issues that had kept him out.
Wall said on Wednesday that he also had soreness in a hip and tightness in a hamstring, in addition to the knee issues that the team announced. But he said that he does not expect to need any sort of procedure to address the knee issues.
“I’m feeling cool,” Wall said. “It’s been a couple nagging injuries, having a hip contusion. In Minnesota, I fell on my hip and that was sore. We were playing Memphis, and I fell. In the first quarter, going for a rebound, KJ (Martin) knocked me, and I fell right on that same spot and it was hard to run. Then dealing with some tightness in the back of my hamstring area. Dealing with both of those was very difficult.”
Wall said he has had some fluid buildup since early in the season.
He said he was struggling to run throughout the Rockets game March 29 against the Grizzlies when he made just 2 of 12 shots in 33 minutes. He has not played since.
Rapinoe criticizes Green’s comment
Megan Rapinoe, the outspoken star of the U.S. women’s soccer team, called Warriors forward Draymond Green an “ass” for his recent comments about women athletes’ complaints.
“It is really unfortunate in the position he is in, having all the resources he has and then having the ability to have a much more educated opinion that he just hasn’t,” Rapoine said Wednesday at the U.S. Olympic virtual media summit.
Last week, Green said women athletes need to stop “complaining” about the difference in pay between men athletes and start taking action. Green made his comments at a time of an uproar over inequities between the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments.
“They’re not laying out steps that they can take to change that,” Green said a the time. “It’s coming off as a complaint because the people who can change it are just going to continue to say, ‘Well, the revenue isn’t there. If you don’t bring in the revenue, we can’t up your pay.’ They’re going to keep using that, but the reality is, as true as that is, it’s an excuse. Everyone says, ‘We support women. We support women’s empowerment. We support women in the workplace. We do this for women. We do X for women. Blah, blah, blah.’ ”