By Johnny Askounis/ info@eurohoops.net
After suffering a patellar tendon rupture late in the 2023-24 season and sitting out the 2024-25 season, Keenan Evans is sidelined by Olympiacos for 15 to 20 days due to osteochondral damage to his right patella.
The update on Wednesday adds to the unfortunate injuries for the 29-year-old combo guard. Besides undergoing left knee surgery last May at the bottom end of his spell with Zalgiris and being forced to delay his debut with the Reds, he was sent to a premature end for his 2022-23 journey with the Kaunas outfit due to a torn Achilles tendon.
The team coached by Giorgos Bartzokas will miss the former Texas Tech standout in Greece’s Stoiximan Super Cup, which will be held in Rhodes on September 26 and 27, and likely on September 30, in an away game versus Baskonia at Fernando Buesa Arena in Round 1 of the 2025-26 EuroLeague Regular Season. From there, Evans is considered questionable for later fixtures in the early stages of the 2025-26 continental and domestic schedules.
Besides Evans, Moustapha Fall is also on the injury list, expected to miss several more months and likely the entire 2025-26 season. In contrast, the remaining players, including international players fresh out of a bronze medal with the senior national team of Greece in EuroBasket 2025, Kostas Papanikolaou, Tyler Dorsey, Giannoulis Larentzakis, and Kostas Antetokounmpo, are projected to be available for the next games.
Focusing overseas since 2019, following one year in the G League, Evans played for Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv, Hapoel B-Cure Laser Haifa, and Igokea m: tel, before moving to Zalgiris in 2022 and to Olympiacos in 2024.