{"id":158732,"date":"2025-07-09T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/158732\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:17:21","slug":"hawks-larry-nance-jr-vit-krejci-out-multiple-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/158732\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks’ Larry Nance Jr., Vit Krejci Out Multiple Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawks forward Larry Nance Jr.<\/a> and guard Vit Krejci<\/a> both had to leave a 112-106 win over Orlando on Monday with injuries and will face extended absences.<\/p>\n

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According to the Hawks (Twitter link<\/a>), Krejci departed Monday\u2019s game with a lower back contusion. After he underwent imaging, he was diagnosed with a non-displaced lumbar fracture and is set to be reassessed in three-to-four weeks.<\/p>\n

Nance, meanwhile, exited the contest with a right knee injury. He has sustained a non-displaced fracture of his right medial femoral condyle, and is set to be on the shelf for at least six weeks, at which point he will be reevaluated.<\/p>\n

Nance was acquired as part of a blockbuster offseason deal with New Orleans for guard Dejounte Murray<\/a>. Across his 24 healthy games this season, the 6\u20198\u2033 forward\/center is averaging 8.5 points, 4.3 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 0.8 steals and 0.5 blocks in just 19.3 minutes per night.<\/p>\n

Krejci, 24, is in his third season with Atlanta. This year, he\u2019s averaging a career-high 6.9 points per game on an efficient .447\/.384\/.667 shooting line. The 6\u20198\u2033 pro is also chipping in 2.7 APG, 2.7 RPG, 0.7 SPG and 0.5 BPG for the Hawks.<\/p>\n

This is a big blow to the depth of the new-look Hawks, who have retooled their personnel through an active trade deadline stretch.<\/p>\n

Without Nance or star forward Jalen Johnson<\/a>, Atlanta head coach Quin Snyder will likely need to lean more on rookie forward Zaccharie Risacher<\/a> and newly added stretch four Georges Niang<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sans Krejci or Kobe Bufkin<\/a>, Snyder will presumably give more touches to other backcourt contributors like Dyson Daniels<\/a>, Garrison Mathews<\/a>, and fresh trade acquisition Caris LeVert<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawks forward Larry Nance Jr. and guard Vit Krejci both had to leave a 112-106 win over Orlando…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,677,2988,6,7477],"class_list":{"0":"post-158732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-atlantahawks","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-hawks","13":"tag-larry-nance-jr","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-vit-krejci"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114824416632945171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}