Wayne Ellington hurt his left ankle in today’s scrimmage and sat out the end of practice. Rambis called it a sprain, didn’t seem all that concern about it but doesn’t yet know if Ellington will be available to play Wednesday against Chicago.
Oleksiy Pecherov, coming back from that broken wrist, participated fully in the scrimmage and made a couple of nice long range shots, but Rambis wants to wait another day before declaring him ready to make his preseason debut Wednesday at Target Center.
Slowly but surely, guard/forward Corey Brewer is getting back to where he wants to be nearly 11 months after tearing his ACL.
He has appeared in both of the Timberwolves’ preseason games, averaging nine points and four rebounds in 19 minutes of play per game.
It’s not perfect, but he’ll take it.
“I still don’t have the legs that I want to,” he said. “I’m still weak a little bit, can’t get my jumper off like I want to, been shooting a couple of air balls.”
Six preseason games remain before the Oct. 28 season-opener. Brewer vows he’ll be ready by then.
From The Kamenetzky brothers/Lakers Blog: Know thy enemy: Minnesota Timberwolves