Will Cleveland Miss Mo Williams?

Filed under: Cavaliers, NBA Injuries

Mo Williams, quasi-All-Star point guard for the Eastern Conference leading Cleveland Cavaliers, will miss up to six weeks with a shoulder sprain, reports Brian Windhorst of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. For now, that puts Delonte West in the starting PG role, with Anthony Parker playing long minutes at shooting guard and Daniel Gibson re-emerging from darkness. (Gibson hasn't played 10 minutes in a game since January 2, and hasn't topped 20 minutes since December 16.)



As Williams is considered Cleveland's second-best player*, this is seen as a huge opportunity for the other Eastern challengers -- Boston, Orlando and Atlanta -- to make up ground, and potentially even grind Cleveland away. But that oversells Williams' particular value to this team. In other words, while Williams is indeed a fine player, the injury hasn't happened in a vacuum, and Cleveland can remain excellent.

 

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