Nets get Jeff Green back for pivotal Game 4 against Bucks
NY Post
MILWAUKEE — Nets big man Jeff Green was cleared to return for Sunday’s Eastern Conference semifinal Game 4 after missing six straight playoff tilts with a foot injury.
The 35-year-old Green had been forced out of Brooklyn’s first-round Game 2 win over Boston after just 12:07 with a left plantar fascia strain. He’d initially been listed as questionable for Sunday’s tilt in Milwaukee, and had to go through pregame warmups before the Nets’ medical staff cleared him. “Well, I don’t think we expect him to play a ton of minutes,” Steve Nash said of Green beforehand. “I think we’ve got to see how he looks and feels if he’s available, and see how it goes. He hasn’t played for a couple of weeks.
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