Cleveland Cavaliers star guard Kyrie Irving will miss a month recovering from a hairline fracture in his left 
index finger.
The said Irving had an MRI and CT scan Monday at Cleveland Clinic Sports Health that revealed the non-displaced fracture. Irving will not have surgery but rather will be treated with taping and a splint.
Irving is expected to miss four weeks. He will be re-evaluated in two weeks, when his status will be updated.
Irving suffered the injury in the third quarter of Saturday’s loss to Dallas. He played the rest of the game and acknowledged the injury afterward but nevertheless played in Sunday’s loss at Philadelphia, where he clearly was not himself, scoring a season-low nine points on 4-of-14 shooting.
The Cavaliers are off to an awful 2-8 start, and it is hard to imagine them ithout Irving, their best scorer and playmaker. The 2012 Rookie of the Year is averaging 22.9 points – sixth in the league – and 5.6 assists while shooting 46 percent from the field.
Cleveland’s current options at point guard are unproven second-year journeymen Donald Sloan and Jeremy Pargo. Sloan played for three teams last season, starting 11 games for the Cavs. Pargo played for Memphis last season, starting five games.
The Cavs have 15 players on their roster, so they would have to cut a player to sign a free agent. Possibilities include free agents Derek Fisher, Mike Bibby, Mike James and Jannero Pargo, recently waived by Washington.