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Nets forward Andrei Kirilenko has not been cleared for contact, but he hopes to be able to participate in full-contact practice Monday, Newsday.com reports. He received an injection in his back over a week ago that has delayed his return, the New York Daily News reports.

“It usually takes 10 days to 2 weeks (for recovery following the injection),” Kirilenko said Wednesday. “Right now it’s probably at eight or nine days. Otherwise, I’m good. I usually never have that long period of this injury sustained for that long, for about a month. …The last three or four days there were no feelings of pain. It’s just the medicine they injected you have to for.”

Kirileno is out through the weekend and questionable to play Tuesday against the Raptors.