BLeP wrote:
axlsix3 wrote:
BLeP wrote:
JSA wrote:
BLeP wrote:
KD. Obviously shouldn’t have been playing. Reinjured his calf. We won’t see him again this year.
Well, I'm pretty sure last night confirmed what many suspected - that wasn't a "calf injury." Having torn one Achilles and strained the other, many others, I suspected this was an Achilles injury, not a calf injury. Last night confirmed that. It may have only be strained, but, it's a full blown tear now. I think the MRI later today will confirm that.
Yup. I can't believe that he was cleared to play. Ridiculous.
You mean that teams put themselves ahead of the athletes? Monsters...
Well, it is the championship series so if there's a hint that KD can play he will play. Athletes play hurt all the time, especially this time of year. Look at hockey right now, how many walking wounded are playing in that series? Look up Kirk Gibson.
There are injuries that you can play through and it's just pain management. Then there are injuries like KDs.
Now, we don't know what his injury was because GSW were very hush hush about it but all the rumours were that it was a partially torn Achilles and not a "calf strain". What player has ever been sidelined by a "calf strain" for a month. Nobody.
If it was a partially torn achilles, it's fully torn now.
He was cleared by the team to play. One can argue whether or not it was in the best interest of the team or KD, but I think we all know the answer there.
In a brief back-and-forth with reporters, Myers acknowledged the outside noise about the severity of Durant’s injury. Golden State bungled the original diagnosis, officially a calf strain, while allowing the initial reporting that it was “mild” to just hang out there. On Monday, Kerr admitted he was initially informed that Durant’s recovery time could be measured in months, not weeks.
That ambiguity created frustration, with sources purportedly close to the Warriors venting to different outlets.
The Athletic reported Durant’s continued absence caused “a mixture of confusion and angst” amongst several of Durant’s teammates, reporting that Myers pointedly addressed.
“Kevin Durant wants to play basketball,” Myers said. “The people that questioned whether he wanted to get back to this team were wrong.”
Perhaps, but did the outside noise influence the Warriors' decision to allow Durant to play? Celebrini and the medical staff made the call, but did the public flogging Durant was taking make it tougher to hold him out? Myers insisted the initial diagnosis was a calf injury, with nothing to do with the Achilles but admitted “I don’t know how those are related or not.”
https://www.si.com/...rs-raptors-bob-myers