Las Vegas - Donnie Freeman’s playing status is unclear for the Players Era Festival. The Syracuse forward traveled to Las Vegas from Syracuse in a walking boot.

Questions concerning Freeman and a potential injury surfaced two days ago.

About dinner time in Syracuse on Saturday, the Syracuse men’s basketball account tweeted photos of the team touching down in Las Vegas, site of this week’s Players Era Festival.

In a photo that was soon deleted, Freeman was seen walking down the stairs of a chartered plane wearing a medical walking boot on his right foot.

An SU spokesman, responding a day later to a question about Freeman’s status, said there was “nothing to report at this time.”

SU has offered no official word about Freeman from the time the photo appeared on Twitter until hours before

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