NBA Injury Report
Every injured player's estimated return date, our chance he plays each of his next five games, and who gains minutes while he sits.
NBA injury report with return dates
See when every injured NBA player is expected back according to two injury reports at once, our chance he plays each of his team's next five games, and who takes his minutes while he sits.
Players whose team plays tonight come first, then everyone else, each by our rank as in Rankings. Est. return date shows the earliest and the latest return date ESPN and CBS Sports give, read from their public injury reports every hour. Open a row for each source's own date and status, with a link to its report and the time it was last read. A player on the NBA's own injury report whom neither of them lists yet is shown too, with the NBA's status and no date.
ESPN gives an expected return date. CBS gives the earliest date a player could be back, marked with a +. A game-time decision has no date: he may play tonight.
The chances are our injury model's, built on past seasons of the NBA's own injury reports and box scores and updated with each new report: the chance he plays each of his team's next five games, green when likely and red when not. If he sits names the teammates the model expects to play six or more minutes over their usual while he is out, and not fewer than in their last ten games.
Pick a day, or a span of days, to see every listed player whose team plays in it. A player misses a game when the latest return date the sources give is after it, or no source gives one. Plays shows everyone whose team has a game; Misses keeps those who miss at least one; Highlight keeps everyone and marks them.
With a league connected, each player is tagged with the fantasy team that has him, and My team narrows the report to your own roster. A name with a player page links to it, with his news and outlook.
From the public injury reports of ESPN and CBS Sports. Only the status and the return date are shown, credited to each source, with a link to its own report when a row is opened.
Each one estimates on its own from team announcements and reporters, and some update faster than others. A wide spread usually means the team has not given a timeline, so the most recent update and the team's own report are what to trust.
The sources are read every hour during the season and every six hours in the offseason; an opened row shows when each was last read. The chances and gainers are updated with each new NBA injury report.
When ESPN, CBS Sports and the NBA's report all stop listing him, or once he has played a game since every listing he still has began. An entry older than that game no longer keeps him. He comes back if the NBA's report lists him for a later game, or ESPN or CBS lists him again. On game day, a blue tag marks the players the NBA's own report lists for tonight's game.
By our own injury model, from the NBA's official injury reports, how long he has been out and his team's schedule. It is a chance, not a promise: a player listed out can still be cleared before tip-off.
Players whose team plays tonight are listed first, under Team plays tonight. A blue tag marks each one the NBA's own injury report lists for tonight's game, with his status there: Out, Doubtful, Questionable or Probable.
Point at his chance for the next game, or open his row, for the two things that moved it most compared with a typical player on the report: his listed status, the injury, how long he has been out, his history on injury reports, his role, the schedule, his team's situation, the 65-game award rule or when he was listed. It shows wherever the model has measured them.