"Timberwolves guard Randy Foye wore a hooded sweatsuit and a plastic boot to protect his sprained right ankle while he watched his teammates practice 3-on-3 Tuesday morning.
So has to it come to this? Are those the only healthy bodies the Wolves, with 18 games remaining, have left?
"No," Foye said, "I think we've got 10."
With Al Jefferson and Corey Brewer already out for the season with the same anterior cruciate knee ligament injury, the Wolves lost both Foye and Rodney Carney to injury in Monday's loss to Washington, the Wolves' 10th consecutive defeat and their single-season, franchise-record 11th consecutive at home.
Both are expected to miss at least tonight's game against Memphis at Target Center.
"Yeah, the training room was full this morning," Foye said.
Foye was injured when he reached back for Mike Miller's errant alley-oop pass in the fourth quarter and landed on Wizards guard Jarvaris Crittenton's foot, wrenching his ankle. Carney left the game in the second quarter after Nick Young kneed him in a sensitive area on a drive to the basket.
The team called Carney's injury a lower-body contusion, which apparently is a polite way to term an injury Carney said hurt "everywhere down there."
"That's what my mother told me they called it [on the televised game broadcast]," Carney said. "If that's the way they say it ... it's in that area."
Carney said he aims to play again Friday against New York. Foye said he could put pressure on his right foot Tuesday. He received treatments after Monday's game and Tuesday morning and took an electrical stimulation machine home with him to continue rehabilitation on his own.
"It feels good to me," Foye said after Tuesday's practice. "I would try to play tomorrow. They told me to sit out 48 hours and see how it feels."
Foye's hip, which caused him to miss Friday's game at the Los Angeles Lakers, bothered him again Monday before he sprained his ankle. He nearly got hurt again after the alley-oop play when he had to scoot himself off the court while still flat on the floor because teammate Kevin Love was headed back down the floor rumbling toward a slam dunk.
Somebody asked Wolves coach Kevin McHale what he thought when he saw Foye, the team's best scorer with Jefferson out, fall in a heap.
"My first reaction is why did we throw that lob pass on a 2-on-1 break," McHale said. "Then my next reaction is you better get out of the way because Kevin Love is lumbering for a dunk. But that didn't work out, either."
It says something about the Wolves' current state that Miller limped off the practice court Tuesday as he has often done this season, and he's considered one of the team's healthy players.
Obtained from Memphis last summer because of his shooting skills, Miller has done everything -- pass, rebound -- but shoot this season. That might have to change if Foye's absence extends far beyond tonight's game.
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