N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nHarden\u2019s status for Tuesday\u2019s game at NBA-leading Phoenix is up in the air. Nash had no clarity after Saturday\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not,\u201d Nash said. \u201cWe\u2019ll have to see how it settles, but we\u2019re hopeful.\u201d<\/p>\n
When pressed on exactly how long the hand had been bothering Harden, Nash had no answers. He only could surmise that the star aggravated the initial injury at Friday\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s probably outside of my jurisdiction to say. But what it seems like is a few days,\u201d Nash said. \u201cAnd then shooting and lifting [Friday] flared it up and must have \u2026 he doesn\u2019t remember an event, but the scan shows the irritation, the strain. And he\u2019s said he\u2019s had it for a number of days, so I think the deduction would be that he irritated it shooting and lifting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harden missed Wednesday\u2019s loss to the Nuggets with a hamstring strain. He\u2019s recovered from that, but now he and the Nets are dealing with a new injury.<\/p>\n
\nWhile Kyrie Irving had a season-high 32 points, seven rebounds and seven assists, a local politician was mad the guard was on the court at all. San Francisco board supervisor Matt Haney said the unvaccinated star shouldn\u2019t have been allowed into Chase Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think he should have gotten the exemption,\u201d Haney told The San Francisco Chronicle. \u201cWe have a standard and it should apply to everyone. You\u2019ve got bus drivers and firefighters being told they can\u2019t come into work unless they are vaccinated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you have basketball players playing by a different set of rules, and it breeds cynicism over what are clearly double standards. If New York won\u2019t let him play at home, I don\u2019t see why San Francisco should let him play here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Irving\u2019s perspective?<\/p>\n
\u201cI really don\u2019t have a perspective other than echoing what I said the other day. Some people are gonna agree and some people are gonna disagree,\u201d Irving said. \u201cHe\u2019s entitled to his opinion and I respect it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 James Harden was a late scratch from Saturday\u2019s loss at Golden State, sidelined by a right hand strain that hadn\u2019t appeared on the injury report an hour earlier. \u201cJames\u2019 hand has been bothering him for a few days at least,\u201d coach Steve Nash said before the Nets\u2019 110-106 loss to the Warriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[2452,690,203,314,1297,2332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13551,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549\/revisions\/13551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}