The injury-ravaged Brooklyn Nets will be without Paul Pierce for 2 to 4 weeks with a broken bone in his right hand.
Pierce's frustrating start in his first season in Brooklyn now includes a nondisplaced fracture of the third metacarpal of his shooting hand.
The Nets' loss of Paul Pierce is the biggest hit to a team that already was without Deron Williams, Andrei Kirilenko and Jason Terry.