Clippers Rookie Yanic Konan Niederhauser To Miss Rest Of Season

Yanic Konan Niederhauser tore a ligament successful his correct foot, putting an early extremity to his rookie play pinch the Clippers.

The 7-foot Swiss halfway was injured Wednesday nighttime successful a 130-107 win against nan Indiana Pacers. Niederhauser was diagnosed pinch a Lisfranc wounded successful his correct ft and will require surgery, nan squad said. The wounded involves harm to nan ligaments aliases bones successful nan mediate of nan foot.

Niederhauser averaged 4.3 points and 2.9 rebounds successful 41 games. After being selected 30th successful past year’s NBA draft, he began nan play successful nan G League, but aft nan Clippers traded Ivica Zubac past month, he was earning much minutes.

In his past 5 games, Niederhauser was shooting 52% from nan section and averaging 8.2 points and 6.2 rebounds while playing 18 minutes a game.