LEADING player agent Liam Pickering has questioned the sense of Melbourne young gun Christian Petracca, who is set to miss four weeks of the pre-season after breaking his toe playing backyard basketball.

Petracca, a former gun junior basketballer who was taken as the No. 2 draft pick at the end of 2014, is yet to play a game for the Demons after rupturing his ACL and having a knee reconstruction during last year’s pre-season.

Pickering, who doesn’t manage Petracca’s interests, said he doesn’t “know what (Petracca) was thinking”.

“I don’t like doing this to a young player,” he said on SEN. “If you’re recovering from an ACL, don’t go and play basketball on your holidays, little mate. We want to see you back playing and how good you can be at AFL level.

“He’s injured again, I don’t know what he was thinking, he’s a kid, but he’s coming off an ACL and he’s got to do everything right.

“We want to see him playing … he’s a star.”