{"id":9594,"date":"2023-01-21T10:45:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T10:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/duke-basketball-guard-breaks-nose-during-practice\/"},"modified":"2023-01-21T10:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T10:45:21","slug":"duke-basketball-guard-breaks-nose-during-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/duke-basketball-guard-breaks-nose-during-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke basketball guard breaks nose during practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- tml-version=\"2\" --><\/p>\n<p>Duke Basketball sophomore Jalen Blakes broke his nose after accidentally catching an elbow during practice Wednesday, first-year head coach John Shayer told media on Friday. .<\/p>\n<p>Still, when the unranked Blue Devils (13-5, 4-3 ACC) host the No. 17 Miami Hurricanes (15-3, 6-2 ACC) at noon on Saturday, Blakes will probably be the first I plan to play again&#8230;or second guard off the bench while wearing a protective face mask.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\"\/>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> 2022-23 Duke Predicted Scores for Each Match<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jaylen is ready,&#8221; Scheier confirmed. &#8220;Our medical team did a great job. About an hour later [the injury], they could reduce fractures. And he handled it like an absolute champion, tough as nails. He just wears a mask for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s shown a lot that he will do whatever it takes to get on the floor&#8230; no matter what you want to put in front of him, he&#8217;s going to be &#8216;strong&#8217; and &#8216;strong&#8217; with the name of Jalen Blakes.&#8221; Must be tough.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<section class=\"m-in-content-recommendation m-detail--in-content-recommendation h-isolated-styles mm-component-stack--is-body-item\">\n<p><span>scroll to continue<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>Shire said they &#8220;haven&#8217;t been in touch with him&#8221; since the injury, but against a guard-laden Miami Hurricanes team featuring veteran backcourt leaders in Isiah Wong and Nigel Puck. , said, &#8220;Except for the mask, he&#8217;ll be ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> John Scheer&#8217;s Blue Devils are hungry and angry<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Blakes has emerged as an energy booster and defensive stopper this season with a view to creating fast-break opportunities after riding the pines for most of last year&#8217;s Duke Basketball inaugural season.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<p>The 6-foot-2-inch, 200-pound former four-star recruit appeared in all 18 games for the 2022-23 Blue Devils, averaging 5.2 points, 2.2 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 0.9 steals in 19.3 minutes.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-3\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\"\/>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> John Shire addresses Jayden Schutt&#8217;s lack of minutes<\/p>\n<p><em>For daily Duke basketball content, keep an eye on Blue Devil Country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiVWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNpLmNvbS9jb2xsZWdlL2R1a2UvYmFza2V0YmFsbC9kdWtlLWJhc2tldGJhbGwtZ3VhcmQtYnJlYWtzLW5vc2UtcHJhY3RpY2XSAVpodHRwczovL3d3dy5zaS5jb20vY29sbGVnZS9kdWtlLy5hbXAvYmFza2V0YmFsbC9kdWtlLWJhc2tldGJhbGwtZ3VhcmQtYnJlYWtzLW5vc2UtcHJhY3RpY2U?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Duke Basketball sophomore Jalen Blakes broke his nose after accidentally catching an elbow during practice Wednesday, first-year head coach John Shayer told media on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1674299078_duke-basketball.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}