The Nets lost Day’Ron Sharpe to a knee injury Sunday night, and it’s unclear just how long the backup center will be out.
Sharpe suffered a sprained left knee with just over three minutes left in regulation of Sunday’s overtime loss to Portland.
He went down during a collision, clutching at his knee and pounding the Barclays Center court in pain.
The third-year pro was eventually helped off the floor, went to the locker room and didn’t return.
He’s slated for imaging Monday and won’t accompany the Nets on their trip to play the Cavaliers on Thursday in Paris.
“Left knee sprain. He’ll get an MRI [Monday],” said Jacque Vaughn. “He’ll stay back, won’t travel with us to Paris right now. We’ll see if he’s going to join us in Paris.”
Sharpe had 11 points and six boards in 16:35, and had come on of late.
Leading scorer Cam Thomas, who came in averaging a team-high 20.7 points, had just nine in a modest 17:53 of playing time.
His playing time bears watching now that Lonnie Walker IV is back.
Thomas took a first-half elbow to the face, and after being bloodied, played the rest of the night with bandages over his left eye.
Brooklyn continued its inability to guard the perimeter.
The Nets yielded 20 of 38 shooting from 3-point range, particularly disturbing considering how poorly the Trail Blazers have shot.
Trendon Watford and Harry Giles III are both guaranteed for the rest of the season.
“They’re guaranteed. Dinner is on those two,” said Vaughn. “They’ll be with us.”
Sunday was the deadline for their contracts to be guaranteed.
“I’m officially official,” Giles told The Post. “Sean (Marks) texted me in the morning, told me, ‘Glad you’re a Net, you’re here to say, well deserved.’… When I came in this morning, I saw Sean again. He gave me a hug, told me congrats and I’m glad you’re here to stay.”
Both players will make roughly $2 million.
“I know if you do good things, good things will happen. So, I just want to continue to be a good teammate if I’m playing, and if I’m not, do my thing when I get in and just try to get wins to help the team. So that alone, that mindset, it really kept the pressure off me,” Watford told The Post. “I knew in the back of my mind that the date was coming up, [but] I didn’t go to sleep with it on my mind too much.”