Brook Lopez to Undergo Surgery on Broken Foot


Tough news for the New Jersey Nets’ big fella (who has never missed a regular-season game in his career), as Brook Lopez will go under the surgeon’s knife tomorrow to repair a broken bone in his right foot. Nets PR has the details: “Nets Center Brook Lopez has been diagnosed with a stress fracture of the fifth metatarsal of the right foot, Nets GM Billy King announced. Lopez injury occurred in first half of Nets preseason game at New York on Dec. 21. Lopez will undergo surgery on Fri. Dec. 23.”