Portland Trail Blazers general manager Joe Cronin provided an update on the status of center Robert Williams III at media day, and unfortunately, to no surprise, it wasn't promising. Cronin said that Williams still isn't fully cleared to play after undergoing knee surgery for the injury he suffered in March. He did note that Williams was getting close, but seeing as we're less than a month away from the start of the regular season, one would've hoped that Williams would've made more progress by now.
It's not just the recovery timeline that worries us; it's also the extent of Williams' brutal injury history.