Both Bilal Coulibaly and Alexandre Sarr returned injured from the Casketball European Championship to the Washington Wizards. General Manager Will Dawkins announced new information on the state of affairs in both cases.
Like Josh Robbins from “The Athletic” on X Avarios, both will miss the training start and probably also large parts of the Preseason. Robbins wrote that there was more hope for an assignment in the Preseason at Sarr, who had to leave the European Championship due to a calf injury.
According to the insider, he was “hopeful that he will come to the end of the preseason”. The second pick of the Draft 2024 injured himself against Slovenia in the second group game of the French.
Coulibaly will miss the first week of the season
The situation was different with Coulibaly, who was still present in the round of 16 in the defeat of France.
On September 12, Shams Charania reported that the 21-year-old had undergone an intervention due to a torn volume in the right thumb. The seventh pick of the Pacers in Draft 2023, which directly transferred him to the capital, suffered the injury like his teammate during the European Championship.
In his case, Dobbins said that he will definitely not take part in the training camp and would not be used in the preparatory games. “It is assumed that he can play again in the first or second week of the regular season,” wrote the Wizards expert.
Without Sarr and Coulibaly, the Head Coach Brian Keefe team begins the Preseason on October 12 against the Toronto Raptors. The Wizards training camp began on September 29.