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, according to The Athletic.
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 ᴀssists 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 team that’ll likely end the season positioned for one of the top picks in next year’s draft.
Carrington averaged 9.1 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.8 ᴀssists per game entering Monday, and in his lone season with the Panthers, he averaged 13.8 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.1 ᴀssists per game — helping the 6-foot-4 guard get selected at No. 14 overall.
The Wizards kept it close against the Knicks in the first half Monday, 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.
“We try not to think about it,” Hart told reporters about the winning streak. “I think at the end of the day, winning streaks, they’re cool, they keep the vibes great, but we know there’s peaks and valleys to the NBA season.”
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. 1.
