CLEVELAND (AP) — Cavaliers small forward Max Strus will miss at least six weeks with a right ankle injury sustained during a recent workout, an early blow to a Cleveland team ravaged by injuries last season.
The Cavs said Saturday that Strus, who has been slowed by a hip injury he got in the team's exhibition opener, got hurt during an individual workout on Thursday. He'll be reassessed after six weeks.
Cleveland, which made the Eastern Conference semifinals last season despite a rash of major injuries, opens the season on Wednesday in Toronto. The Cavs play their home opener on Friday against Detroit and former coach J.B. Bickerstaff.
The 28-year-old Strus in his second season with the Cavs, who acquired him in a sign-and-trade deal with Miami last year. Strus made 70 starts for Cleveland and averaged 12.2 points and 4.8 rebounds in 32 minutes per game.
Strus sustained a hip injury in Cleveland's preseason opener on Oct. 8.
He attempted to draw a charge in the second quarter against Bulls rookie forward Matas Buzelis. Strus absorbed the contact and fell hard to the floor. He remained in the game before limping off and heading to the locker room.
Following the game, the Cavs said Strus had a bruised hip.
Strus spent three seasons with the Heat and one with the Chicago Bulls.
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FILE - Cleveland Cavaliers guard Max Strus, left, passes the ball around Orlando Magic guard Joe Ingles (7) during the first half of Game 6 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, May 3, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A flood warning was issued Saturday after an outburst from a glacial lake in Alaska's capital.
Suicide Basin is a side basin of the Mendenhall Glacier above the city of Juneau. Since 2011 it has released glacier lake outburst floods each year that cause inundation along Mendenhall Lake and Mendenhall River.
“We expect moderate flooding from this event, not major flooding,” said Nicole Serrin, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Juneau.
Residents had 24 to 36 hours to prepare for flooding, she said. The flood warning was in effect until Monday.
The forecast called for the river to crest at around 11 to 11.5 feet (3.35 to 3.5 meters) early that day, the weather service said.
Officials warned people to stay away from the river. Recent snow has made the banks very slippery.
Suicide Basin fills with rainwater and snowmelt during the spring and summer and at a certain point builds enough pressure to force its way out through channels it carves beneath Mendenhall Glacier.
The basin started refilling with fall rain over the last couple of months, Serrin said. It was not certain how quickly it will drain or if it will empty completely.
In August, roughly 290 residences were damaged after the lake sent floodwaters into neighborhoods.
The Mendenhall River crested at 15.99 feet (4.9 meters) then, a new record, topping the level during last year’s flood by about a foot, and the water reached farther into the Mendenhall Valley, officials said.
Juneau, a city of about 30,000 people in southeast Alaska, is reachable only by plane or boat.
FILE - The face of Mendenhall Glacier is seen from along the Mount McGinnis trail in Juneau, Alaska, Aug. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)
