2 days Ago By Andrew Crane
Wizards rookie guard Carlton “Bub” Carrington was pushed off the court in a wheelchair Monday after hitting his head on the floor during the third quarter of Washington’s game against the Knicks. Carrington was defending Knicks wing OG Anunoby as he drove to the basket, and at one point during the sequence, Carrington fell backward and hit his head on the court at Capital One Arena. The Wizards’ medical staff helped lift Carrington into a wheelchair, with two towels getting placed over his head as he was moved toward the locker room.
He was eventually ruled out with a post-traumatic headache, according to the team, but he was talking with teammates and walking around the locker room after the Knicks defeated Washington, 126-106, on Monday. Carrington, the Wizards’ first-round pick in the 2024 NBA Draft after his lone collegiate season at Pittsburgh, finished the game — which was Washington’s second home loss in three days to the Knicks — with six points on 2-for-6 shooting with five rebounds and five assists in 28 minutes while adding one steal on defense. He has started 20 of his 29 games across his rookie campaign on a rebuilding Washington that’ll likely end the year positioned for one of the top picks in next year’s draft.
Carrington averaged 9.1 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.
8 assists per game entering Monday. The Wizards kept it close against the Knicks in the first half, but behind Josh Hart’s triple-double and Karl-Anthony Towns’ 32 points, the Knicks eventually pulled away for their eighth consecutive win to close a 12-2 December. And Washington, which now sits at 5-25 and last in the Eastern Conference, will wait for further updates on Carrington before they host the Bulls on Jan.
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