""It's my knee, something that had to take a little more time than some other injuries," Young told reporters after practice in Atlanta on Wednesday. "... I feel good. [My conditioning is] going to get better as you play. They wouldn't even allow me to come back or even be close to coming back if my conditioning wasn't right or close to it.""
""I see certain things that our team is doing really good that I want to keep allowing our team to do," he said. "But then there are times when we are struggling or times when it looks kind of tough on guys, and I want to make it easier for them. "For me since Day 1, I've always felt I was a puzzle piece to the big puzzle. I never felt like I was the whole puzzle. I'm about to come back and do the"
Trae Young will return Thursday night against the Charlotte Hornets after suffering a sprained right MCL on Oct. 29 in Brooklyn and missing 22 straight games. Atlanta went 13-9 without Young and sits 15-12 overall despite recent injuries. Young is averaging 17.8 points and 7.8 assists this season. He was upgraded to probable after a full practice Wednesday following a G League scrimmage Tuesday. Young described the knee as requiring extra time to heal and expects his conditioning to improve with game action. He intends to preserve team strengths while making play easier for teammates.
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