When the NBA playoffs begin, no player is 100 percent healthy. Everyone is dealing with bumps and bruises and some kind of ailment. As long as the injuries don't cause any missed time, then for all intents and purposes each team is healthy. The Sacramento Kings have just completed one of the most successful seasons in franchise history and ended the NBA's longest active streak of missing the playoffs. Mike Brown was named a finalist for the Coach of the Year Award and De'Aaron Fox is a candidate for the new Clutch Player of the Year. And after a brief scare, it looks like Kings veteran Harrison Barnes recent injury will not keep him out of Game 1 on Saturday against the Golden State Warriors, as per Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee.
Barnes' injury involved an ankle tweak during practice on Wednesday, although he managed to finish practice. He was held out of practice on Thursday just as a precaution, but he should not appear on the Kings injury report. Barnes is one of the veteran players on a young Kings team and a steadying influence.
This season, Harrison Barnes averaged 15.0 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game while shooting 47.3 percent from the field, 37.4 percent from the 3-point line and 84.7 percent from the free-throw line. Barnes started in all 82 games at a little over 32 minutes per game.
Barnes is in his 11th season in the NBA and fifth with the Kings. For the Kings to have any shot against the Warriors, they will need him to produce in a big way.
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