Brooklyn’s bevy of injuries just got worse, with Cam Johnson forced out of Tuesday’s win.
Johnson suffered a sprained right ankle early on and didn’t return.
He had it in a wrap after the game, limping out of Barclays Center.
Asked by The Post if he would get imaging done on the ankle Wednesday, he said he expected to.
“Yeah, it’s just a right ankle sprain and we’re gonna evaluate him [Wednesday],” interim Kevin Ollie had said. “I imagine they’ll evaluate him [Tuesday night], but we’ll have more information [in the morning].”
Johnson got hurt coming down after taking a 3-pointer, when it appeared Kyle Lowry didn’t give him much space to land.
No foul was called, and Johnson stayed on for another minute before limping off.
He was quickly ruled out and finished with six points on 2 of 4 shooting in 8:15.
Even before Johnson went down, the Nets had a litany of injury concerns, and came through them with a mixed bag.
The most worrying may be backup center Day’Ron Sharpe, who missed Tuesday’s 112-107 win over Philadelphia with a right wrist contusion and is up in the air going forward.
He was wearing a brace on the wrist in the locker room.
“He got a scan earlier and we’re waiting on the results from that,” Ollie said.
Sharpe had suffered the injury with about nine minutes remaining in Monday’s loss to Memphis, taking a hard fall. He got up flexing his hand, and left with eight minutes remaining, only returning for Mikal Bridges’ final free-throw attempt with seconds left.
The backup center had no clarity from the scans by tipoff Tuesday night.
“I got it earlier today. I don’t know anything,” Sharpe saidin the locker room. “I ain’t got no news for you.”
Sharpe is second in the league in rebounds per 36 minutes (15.4), trailing only Andre Drummond (18.6). He’s third in offensive rebounds per 36 minutes (6.1), trailing just Drummond and Clint Capela.
Lonnie Walker played against the 76ers despite having been listed as questionable with a sprained left ankle.
“Yeah, Lonnie is going to work in his vitamins and see if he can go,” Ollie said before Walker had 19 points and four rebounds in 30 minutes.
The sixth man had twisted his ankle against the Grizzlies.
He’d been walking with an ice wrap on it and a noticeable limp afterwards, but had expressed confidence he would play against Philadelphia and did so.
Bridges (15 points) shrugged off what appeared to be a jammed finger.
“I think he’s full go. Our medical team didn’t come back and say anything about him at shootaround,” Ollie had said. “So I think he’s a full go and ready to play and ready to put his best foot forward and go out there and lead our team to a victory.”
Ben Simmons (back) and Cam Thomas (right ankle/midfoot sprain) were out.
“[Thomas] is just getting better. He’s ramping up his workouts and then keep leaning on our medical staff — and him also because he’s a big part of this — to let us know when he’s ready,” Ollie said. “But he is ramping up a little bit more than what he was doing prior.”
Joel Embiid was out for Philadelphia, not due to be evaluated until later this week.
Robert Covington (left knee bone bruise), DeAnthony Melton (lumbar spine bones stress) were out, and rising star Tyrese Maxey was a late scratch with a concussion.
Tuesday marked Brooklyn’s 10th back-to-back of the season. The Nets came in 5-5 on the front end of those, but just 2-7 on the tail end.
The Nets shot just 17 of 30 — or .567 — from the free-throw line on Monday, the second-lowest percentage of any team all season with at least 30 attempts.
It’s their worst percentage in a game (min. 30 attempts) since making just 17 of 31 (.548) in a loss at Denver on Feb. 24, 2017.
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