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An image collage containing 3 images, Image 1 shows Nets center Day’Ron Sharpe is out for the season with a left thumb injury, Image 2 shows Josh Minott, who scored a team-high 24 points off the bench for Brooklyn, shoots over Jonathan Kuminga during the Nets 108-97 loss to the Hawks on March 12, 2026 in Atlanta, Image 3 shows Mouhamed Gueye goes up for a dunk during the Nets’ road loss to the Hawks<\/p>\n

Nets center Day\u2019Ron Sharpe \u2014 quietly as effective as any player on their roster \u2014 will miss the rest of this season.<\/p>\n

Sharpe, 24, was diagnosed with an ulnar collateral ligament tear in his left thumb and will require season-ending surgery.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s in good spirits,\u201d coach Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez said of Sharpe before Thursday\u2019s game in Atlanta. \u201cObviously, we would love to have him playing because these games and minutes are valuable for everybody\u2019s development.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m very happy with what I\u2019ve seen from Day\u2019Ron, the hard work he put in the summer and how much better he\u2019s gotten. So obviously we wouldn\u2019t want to see that (injury), but we know it\u2019s fixable and we\u2019ll go and do surgery. Then we\u2019ll have a timetable after he gets done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news will come as a tough blow for Brooklyn and the young center, who was peaking in the midst of a career year.<\/p>\n

Sharpe finishes his campaign averaging 8.7 points, 6.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.1 steals in 62 games, all career bests. While Sharpe has been behind starter Nic Claxton on the depth chart, his absence will be a huge loss for the Nets.<\/p>\n

Without Sharpe on Thursday night, Brooklyn used a makeshift lineup and lost 108-97 in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The Nets (17-49) are fourth in the lottery standings, two games behind the Pacers. They trail Sacramento by 1 \u00bd and Washington by \u00bd game.<\/p>\n

Josh Minott led the way with 24 points, 4-of-7 from deep and three steals \u2014 all career highs.<\/p>\n

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Nets center Day\u2019Ron Sharpe is out for the season with a left thumb injury. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re asking him to pressure the ball, to pick up full court, and he did an amazing job,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said of Minott. \u201cHe\u2019s trying to do everything we ask him to do. You see the size, he\u2019s going to let it fly, and those things are positive. So I\u2019m excited to watch him play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brooklyn has outscored opponents by seven more points per 100 possessions with Sharpe on the floor vs. off, the best mark on the team and sixth best among 35 centers who had logged over 1,100 minutes this season, per Cleaning The Glass.<\/p>\n

Sharpe has been among the Nets\u2019 best players, ranking seventh in the NBA in offensive rebounds per 100 possessions and 12th in steals.<\/p>\n

\u201c[He gives] a ton of effort,\u201d said Detroit coach J.B. Bickerstaff. \u201cHe\u2019s got great size, he plays extremely hard, he\u2019s physical on the interior, he doesn\u2019t back down, he\u2019s got the ability to stretch the floor and make 3s.<\/p>\n

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Josh Minott, who scored a team-high 24 points off the bench for Brooklyn, shoots over Jonathan Kuminga during the Nets\u2019 108-97 loss to the Hawks on March 12, 2026 in Atlanta. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think the thing that stands out when you watch the tape is just the effort that he puts forth. And when you mix that effort with that size and skill, he can create problems for you on both ends of the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sharpe showed that Saturday against Bickerstaff\u2019s Pistons, helping key the fifth-biggest rally in team history. While Claxton was getting dominated by Jalen Duren, Sharpe had 13 points, seven rebounds, four assists and two steals in 21 minutes, including nine points and five boards in the fourthquarter.<\/p>\n

Then Sharpe had 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting with five rebounds, two assists, two steals and a block in 18 minutes off the bench against Memphis. But he aggravated a preexisting thumb injury in Monday\u2019s win, and now is lost for the season.<\/p>\n

\u201c[He got hurt] the Memphis game,\u201d said Fern\u00e1ndez. \u201cI mean, I know that it was bothering him, but then I saw him grabbing his hand, and that\u2019s why I had him subbed out to look at it And that\u2019s when it all happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mouhamed Gueye goes up for a dunk during the Nets\u2019 road loss to the Hawks. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Nets re-signed Sharpe last summer on a team-friendly, two-year, $12.5 million deal. It includes a team option for next season at a guaranteed $6.25 million, but that would run the risk of letting him hit unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2027. Brooklyn could opt to preemptively give him an extension this offseason.<\/p>\n

They would be wise to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s awesome,\u201d gushed Nets rookie Danny Wolf. \u201cHe\u2019s so fun to play with. He makes everything so easy. And you can put any shot up there and he\u2019s gonna have a good chance to get on the boards.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd elite defensively. He can switch, he can plan a drop. And you get a glimpse into it every day, and he continues to prove his worth and just how good he is and what he brings to the table every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Without another proven pure center to back up Claxton, Wolf and springy Josh Minott could be in the mix to try to fill those shoes.<\/p>\n

In addition to Sharpe, Egor D\u00ebmin, Michael Porter Jr., Nolan Traore and Ziaire Willams were all out in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Ben Saraf (10 points), Drake Powell (11 points), Wolf (eight points), Noah Clowney (10 points) and Claxton (eight points) started in the loss to the Hawks, who won their eighth straight.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, opportunity for everybody,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cThe exciting part is to give a look to guys that haven\u2019t played as much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image collage containing 3 images, Image 1 shows Nets center Day’Ron Sharpe is out for the season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[676,7,3519,670,247,3803,1042,2299,296,997,227,677,912,867,248,7272,293,562,6449,6,671,2728,3805,114,986,31054],"class_list":["post-656131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn-nets","tag-atlanta","tag-basketball","tag-ben-saraf","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklynnets","tag-danny-wolf","tag-dayron-sharpe","tag-detroit","tag-drake-powell","tag-egor-demin","tag-hawks","tag-jalen-duren","tag-jonathan-kuminga","tag-jordi-fernandez","tag-josh-minott","tag-memphis","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-mouhamed-gueye","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-nic-claxton","tag-noah-clowney","tag-pacers","tag-sacramento","tag-thumb-injury"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116222032707673519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656131","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=656131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}