Timberwolves

Jimmy Butler Out with a Right Meniscal Injury, Return Unclear

(photo credit: Jim Faklis)

After leaving Friday’s game in Dallas with an apparent knee injury, Jimmy Butler left Wolves fans fearing the worst.

After a negative X-ray on Friday and an MRI on Saturday, good news came in.

The MRI revealed Butler suffered a “right meniscal injury” on Friday, though the official press release did not list any sort of timetable for his return.

Zone Coverage‘s injury analyst Lucas Seehafer gave his two cents on the matter.

https://twitter.com/loseehafer/status/967517653878427649

While neither of those scenarios is preferable, they’re still both vastly superior to any scenario involving the ACL, historically an automatic season-ender.

We’ll have more on Butler as it comes in.


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