A combination of injuries — physical and emotional — have crippled Tyreke Evans’ season. Plantar fasciitis, one of the NBA’s most unfortunate, nagging injuries, has hindered Evans throughout the year, and made sure that the reigning Rookie of the Year would not be selected to this year’s All-Star Game.
Regardless, Evans is a shoe-in for an invitation to the Rookie-Sophomore game, the headlining event of All-Star Friday. But he won’t play. Evans told Scott Howard-Cooper of NBA.com that even he receives his likely invite to represent the NBA’s sophomore class, he’s going to turn it down.
With everything Evans is going through -- the plantar fasciitis as well as the usual assortment of bumps and brusies that penetrating guards pick up in the NBA -- this seems the wise move.