Andre Drummond appears to be getting closer to returning, but he's out for tomorrow night's game against Minnesota, Keith Langlois reports:
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“He’s on course to get back and we’ll just read it,” Lawrence Frank said on Monday after Drummond went through his second full practice, in addition to participating in the last two game-day shootarounds, since suffering a stress fracture in his lower back in early February, 21 games ago. “It’s very encouraging, what you see, but as much as you try to simulate it, practice isn’t an NBA game. But he’s working hard and it’s great to see him back on the court.”
Drummond’s first practice came on Thursday before the Pistons played a weekend back-to-back set at Miami and Charlotte, where their losing streak was extended to 10 games on Friday before it was snapped on Saturday. The team didn’t practice on Sunday, but Drummond worked with Frank’s staff and got in another conditioning session.
Drummond wouldn’t have been cleared for full-contact practices without the medical staff being satisfied that the fifth lumbar vertabra had healed, so the Pistons are exercising another dose of caution while also enabling Drummond to improve his conditioning level. In the early weeks of his rehabilitation, he was limited to minor isometric exercises, putting him in catch-up mode from the perspective of his cardiovascular conditioning.
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