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Nets’ Kyrie Irving avoids the worst with latest injury woe

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An MRI on Kyrie Irving’s right knee Sunday morning confirmed that he suffered a medial ligament sprain. The Nets’ star guard will be re-evaluated in a week.

It says something about Irving’s spotty health history and Brooklyn’s injury-riddled season that having the star point guard miss a week – at least – is considered good news and the best possible outcome. But that’s where the Nets are.

Irving suffered what the Nets staff diagnosed as a right knee sprain with 5:31 left in Saturday’s loss at Washington. Now after dealing with a lengthy shoulder impingement, and then the passing of friend Kobe Bryant, he was back in New York getting examined again.