Foye to miss threeweeks
Nuggets shooting guard Randy Foye is out three weeks because of a small tear in his right quadriceps, he said Tuesday.
The issue had been an ongoing one. Originally hurt in a game against the Sacramento Kings onNov. 5, Foye didn’t think he had anything serious beyond soreness. He played— and playedwell— in a loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Pepsi Center, scoring 28 points, but Foye had begun to miss some subsequent practices and shootarounds as his leg became more sore.
After missing road games at Indiana and New York withwhatwas then thought to be a right knee injury, Foye said he felt better when he returned.
When he took the court against the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night, Foye said: “It was the best I felt since theCleveland game. It was still affecting my shot a little bit. I could tell when I pushed off.”
Andthen, late in the game, he tweaked it. On Monday, he asked to get anMRI.
“I knew something was wrong,” Foye said.
The MRI revealed the tear. The treatment is basically rest. There is no surgery involved, he said. Foye, one of the Nuggets’ top reserves, is averaging 8.4 points and 2.0 assists per game. He is shooting 34.7 percent from 3-point range.
Expect to see more of Gary Harris, or possibly Alonzo Gee, in Foye’s absence, depending on how coach Brian Shaw wants to rotate his bench.
Shawwill have other rotation issues to think about with the absence of center JaValeMcGee aswell. An Xray taken onMcGee’s surgically repaired left tibia came back negative, but the big man has been experiencing pain in the shin.
McGee was not scheduled to play Tuesday night against the Chicago Bulls.
“I don’t think there’s anything structurally wrong,” Shaw said. “He came down kind of flat-footed (against the Lakers), and he felt the pain radiate up through his shin area.”