Report: Brook Lopez Available for Monday vs. Utah Jazz

After months of waiting, plus parsing through practice photos, haircut interpretations, reading through coach Bud’s injury double speak and maintaining all manner of hope, Milwaukee Bucks Center, Brook Lopez will finally return to the lineup Monday versus the Utah Jazz, per Woj.

Initially out after the first game with back soreness, Lopez eventually underwent surgery on December 2. Since then it’s been a steady trickle of almost no news until the last 10 days or so when he was cleared for on court contact. Milwaukee acquired Serge Ibaka at the trade deadline likely as some Lopez insurance but we’ll now see how he fits into a lineup that will more actively feature Brook at center.

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