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Houston will be without Ray Spalding for the foreseeable future due to an injury to Achilles, which the third-year center suffered in Washington on Monday in his second game with the Rockets. The severity of the injury was not immediately revealed and is awaiting further testing.
“The prognosis is not good,” head coach Stephen Silas said after the game, adding that the final diagnosis would come on Tuesday.
Spalding had played with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers – Houston’s NBA G League affiliate organization – for part of the past two seasons. After playing well to start the 2020-21 campaign, he was called up to the Rockets ahead of Saturday’s game in New York.
It was brutal timing for Spalding, who hadn’t played in an NBA regular season game since the 2018-19 season, his first as a professional. For the Rockets, this is the latest in a long line of unfortunate setbacks.
Christian Wood (right ankle sprain), Victor Oladipo (right foot sprain), PJ Tucker (left thigh contusion) and Eric Gordon (right groin pain) are among the regulars of the rotation currently absent for the Rockets. No coincidence, Houston (11-16) has lost six straight games.
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