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Because the Warriors needed more bad news.
A team that just welcomed back Draymond Green on Monday will have to say goodbye to Damion Lee for a while, the guard suffering a non-displaced fracture of the fourth metacarpal in his right (shooting) hand, the team announced. Lee, who suffered the injury in Monday’s loss to the Jazz, will be re-evaluated in two weeks.
It is unclear when the injury occurred. The 27-year-old shot 4-of-11 for eight points while playing 22 minutes before an MRI on Tuesday morning revealed the hand break.
Lee is another significant blow, a wing threat who had played between 20-30 minutes per game the past seven games, in which he’s averaged 10.7 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists. A team with so little depth somehow just got thinner.
Lee joins an extensive Warriors injury report. His brother-in-law, Stephen Curry, will be out until “early spring,” he said Monday. The Warriors (2-9) also are without Klay Thompson, Kevon Looney, Alen Smailagic and Jacob Evans.
