Stack out with hamstring strain

Jerry Stackhouse left tonight’s game with a strained right hamstring and won’t return. Look for Trenton Hassell and/or Devean George to get those minutes.

He injured the same hamstring during the last road trip at the LA Clippers and missed the loss at Sacramento. He returned in time for the next game, but that was after a four-day break. Stackhouse does not expect to be back for Friday’s date with the Lakers.

"If I were a betting man, I wouldn’t bet on it," he said in the locker room.

He did call the injury a "little strain" and added an MRI exam could be coming. He tried to stay in the game after it happened, but it tightened up.

"It wasn’t right," he said. "It was a little worse than what I did in LA."