Nets news: Kyrie Irving, Brooklyn still discussing surgery date

Nets superstar Kyrie Irving will miss the rest of the season due to his shoulder injury. Irving and the Nets are still discussing a surgery date.

Brooklyn Nets superstar point guard Kyrie Irving will miss the rest of the season due to his shoulder injury.

Irving and the Nets are still discussing a surgery date and which surgeon to use:

Kenny Atkinson said that Kyrie Irving has not had his surgery on his shoulder yet. The performance staff, Irving and Nets personnel are still discussing when the best time and who the best surgeon will be.

— Malika Andrews (@malika_andrews) February 24, 2020

Naturally, Nets fans want to know if Irving is going to be ready for the start of next season when two-time Finals MVP Kevin Durant makes his Brooklyn debut.

According to Dr. Stephen Hunt of Tri-County Orthopedics in Morristown, N.J., Irving should be ready for the start of 2020-21 if there’s no rotator cuff damage in his shoulder, via Brian Lewis of The New York Post:

The NBA’s 2020-21 season starts in October, with training camp a month earlier and players taking part in informal workouts in August. Dr. Stephen Hunt of Tri-County Orthopedics in Morristown, N.J., told The Post that Kyrie Irving should be on schedule for the Nets if there’s no cartilage damage.

“Arthroscopic shoulder surgery is pretty minimally invasive in terms of skin incisions. But there’s a lot of variability in terms of what is done inside the shoulder,” Hunt, who is a consultant with the Jets and has worked with the Mets, told The Post. “I have no idea what’s going on [inside]. Most impingement issues tend to have good resolution with a less invasive approach like that.

“There are other issues in terms of rotator cuff, things like that, that can add time to recovery. … But I’d say certainly by six months from now I’d think in most situations people would be fairly recovered. Obviously he’s a high-level athlete, that’s his shooting arm, so that may take a little longer. It depends what they did at the time of the procedure.”