Jalen Johnson Listed Probable Against Nets After Missing 3 Straight Hawks Games

Jalen Johnson has not played since Oct. 31, when he sprained his left ankle in New Orleans. The Atlanta Hawks list him as probable for Saturday night’s game against the Brooklyn Nets.

Keshon Gilbert, Mouhamed Gueye, Jock Landale, Asa Newell, and Henri Veesaar are out.

It is the back end of a back-to-back for Atlanta, which beat the Washington Wizards 139-132 at State Farm Arena on Friday night for its third straight win. The Hawks are 6-4. Tip-off against Brooklyn is 7:30 p.m. ET.

Johnson stayed on the floor for all 12 minutes of the third quarter in the 121-99 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans. He did not play in the fourth. By then he had 13 points, 7 rebounds, and 4 assists in 27:56, and the Hawks had listed him as questionable to return.

Landale checked in during the first quarter, played 1:22, and did not come back. The injury report has carried him with a left hip strain ever since.

Hawks coach Quin Snyder did not have a timeline for either one that night.

“Hopefully both those guys are going to be okay and not be out for too long, we’ll know more about that tomorrow and beyond,” Snyder said.

Atlanta listed Johnson as questionable before Monday’s game at Indiana, then ruled him out. The same thing happened Wednesday in Washington and again Friday.

Luguentz Dort started at forward in all three. Kingston Flemings joined him in the starting five Wednesday after sitting out Monday on a one-game suspension, and CJ McCollum went to the bench.

Flemings went 2-of-2 from 3-point range in that first start and scored 14 points.

“Just good shooting, really,” Flemings said. “We’re getting good shots. We’re getting good shots. When we get downhill, we got a lot of great shooting from the team. So, that’s my job when I get in the game, and we got good shooting tonight.”

The Hawks beat the Indiana Pacers 108-104 on Monday and the Wizards 120-105 on Wednesday.

Snyder said a 57-41 rebounding edge in Washington took work. Dyson Daniels and Onyeka Okongwu grabbed 16 apiece.

“[Daniels] finds so many ways to impact the game,” Snyder explained. “And we’ve seen that with his defense. We’ve seen it with rebounding tonight. I thought the boards were something that was crucial for our team. And to get that [many], you got to work hard. And I think that’s kind of the thin red line that runs through everything with that is competitiveness.”

Friday’s leading scorer was Nickeil Alexander-Walker, with 28. Dort scored 25. Late in the fourth quarter, with the shot clock about to run out, he hit a corner jumper. Okongwu had 22 points, and Aaron Wiggins came off the bench for 19.

Daniels guarded Trae Young for much of the night. He finished with 13 points and 12 assists.

Atlanta’s 139 points were its most this season, on 52-of-98 shooting.

Before the sprain, Johnson had not missed a game. He had 16 assists against the Houston Rockets on Oct. 24, to go with 26 points and 9 rebounds, in a 121-114 loss.

Saturday will be Landale’s fourth straight absence.

The Hawks added Newell and Gilbert to the report Friday. Newell got hurt Wednesday at Washington, hyperextending his left big toe, and did not return. The team will update his status after a re-evaluation roughly two weeks out.

Gilbert is a two-way guard. He had a nonsurgical procedure on his left knee Thursday at the Emory Sports Medicine Complex, with re-evaluation in about six weeks.

Gueye fractured his left foot in a July 8 workout. He needed surgery, and the timeline the team gave then was a re-evaluation in three to four months.

Veesaar went 52nd in June’s draft. He tore the ACL in his right knee working out Sept. 15, his surgery was scheduled for October, and the Hawks said Sept. 21 that they expect him to miss the season.

Brooklyn is 2-6 and starts a four-game road trip in Atlanta before playing at the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday.

Egor Demin is out with a right bone bruise. Noah Clowney is questionable, and so is Drake Powell, who is on a G League assignment, while Tyler Bilodeau and Grant Nelson are out on two-way G League assignments.

The Hawks host the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday at 7 p.m. ET.