Portland Trail Blazers guard Scoot Henderson sustained a left hamstring tear during an offseason workout leading up to the start of training camp and is out indefinitely, the team announced on Friday afternoon.

Henderson will miss the start of the 2025-26 NBA season and is expected to return to basketball activities in four to eight weeks. He will begin his rehabilitation immediately.

The Blazers drafted Henderson third overall in the 2023 NBA Draft as a potential successor to Damian Lillard, who was traded from Portland to the Milwaukee Bucks before the 2023-24 season. Between his explosive athleticism and playmaking abilities as a lead guard, Henderson was viewed as one of the future pillars of the Trail Blazers franchise.

While this is still the case with the 21-year-old guard,

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