The Portland Trail Blazers will be missing their No. 3 overall pick Scoot Henderson for a significant amount of time.

The team announced Saturday that an MRI had revealed bone bruising in addition to the point guard's right ankle sprain, giving him a return timeline of an additional two to three weeks. From that time frame, best case scenario would see Henderson return on Nov. 26 against the Milwaukee Bucks.

Henderson sustained the injury on Nov. 1 in a game against the Milwaukee Bucks, exiting in the third quarter and not returning. He has missed three games since, and is now in line to miss at least seven more.

He might not be the top player on the Blazers this season, but few, if any, players loom larger for the Blazers' future than Henderson following the Damian Lillard trade. The Blazers drafted Henderson months before sending their all-time leading scorer to the Bucks, landing on a point guard of the future while figuring out to do with the one of the present.

Five games into Henderson's career, the results haven't quite been what the Blazers would want, with the 19-year-old shooting 34.6% from the field and 9.5% from 3-point range, with 4.0 turnovers per game against 4.6 assists. He wouldn't be the first young ballhandler to struggle to acclimate to the NBA at the start of his career, though.