{"id":273604,"date":"2021-06-13T21:58:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T18:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jeff-green-returns-to-nets-for-pivotal-game-4-vs-bucks\/"},"modified":"2021-06-13T21:58:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T18:58:15","slug":"jeff-green-returns-to-nets-for-pivotal-game-4-vs-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jeff-green-returns-to-nets-for-pivotal-game-4-vs-bucks\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jeff Green returns to Nets for pivotal Game 4 vs. Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Jeff Green returns to Nets for pivotal Game<\/a> 4 vs. Bucks<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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MILWAUKEE \u2014 Nets big man Jeff Green was cleared to return for Sunday\u2019s Eastern Conference semifinal Game 4 after missing six straight playoff tilts with a foot injury.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old Green had been forced out of Brooklyn\u2019s first-round Game 2 win over Boston after just 12:07 with a left plantar fascia strain. He\u2019d initially been listed as questionable for Sunday\u2019s tilt in Milwaukee, and had to go through pregame warmups before the Nets\u2019 medical staff cleared him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I don\u2019t think we expect him to play a ton of minutes,\u201d Steve Nash said of Green beforehand. \u201cI think we\u2019ve got to see how he looks and feels if he\u2019s available, and see how it goes. He hasn\u2019t played for a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was on the court the last couple of days, but still in a kind of controlled environment. So I think a lot of unknowns there still. I mean, it\u2019s nice to have him back, for sure. But we\u2019re not sure what he can do and manage, and how sharp he\u2019ll be. But we hope that we have the option of using him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jeff Green has been cleared to return for the Nets\u2019 Game 4 against the Bucks.<\/figcaption>
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Brooklyn got to use Green for the first time since May 25. And it couldn\u2019t come at a better time, after suffering a galling Game 3 loss in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-8, 235 pounder provided another switchable big in Game 4 to help slow Giannis Antetokounmpo. Or at least try.<\/p>\n

Green, who averaged 11 points on .492 percent shooting and a career-high .412 from 3-point range, was second in games played this season for the Nets with 68.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn got Green back, but hamstrung James Harden is still out despite the team\u2019s claims the past few days that he\u2019s making progress, and Nash struggled to define exactly what that progress consists of.<\/p>\n