Jayson Tatum update
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It's so crazy that so many athletes are getting ruptured Achillies now.
Overuse injuries left and right. Making a kid start specializing in a sport at 7 or 8 and then play it relentlessly 12 months a year is just not natural.
Yep. Interestingly, bipedalism evolved relatively recently and our bodies aren't 100% tailored to it. It's what we do to move, but it's also why we have so many hip, knee, and lower leg injuries. Add in so much abuse and strain as a professional athlete, and it's just not a recipe for an injury-free career.
Hope he can recover quickly.
Damn, that’s exactly what I told my wife. When it happened I said the way he fell and the level of pain he was in looked like he tore his Achilles. He’s been remarkably durable so far as well. Hopefully he recovers at the level Durant did. At least his game isn’t all athleticism. He’s very skilled.
Agreed and the seasons are way too long anyway. Baseball especially but the NBA would do well to cut 15 games or so a year at least. The season is ridiculously long with the playoffs as it is.
Agree, hopefully he bounces back like KD did after his. Best case scenario for Jayson. Unfortunately, Cousins was never the same after he tore his in New Orleans.
The bigger you are, the worse it seems to affect them. Injuries derailed HOF type careers of Cuz and Wall. It’s sad. I would really love both of those guys to be in a GM type role or something going forward here. They would be an amazing link to the Cal guys since they started it.
they want all youth to only play 1 sport all year.
you cant tell me running on the hardwood for 12 months isnt bad on your joints.
like throwing baseball all year is hard on your arm
let them play different sports to give certain muscles and joints time to heal while strengthen others.
Good point, it does seem like the big guys have a much harder time with these devastating injuries. Big Cuz was on such a roll there in NOP when it happened.
Too many games nba is grueling some don't hold up
That Big Cuz injury absolutely gutted me. I was turning into a Pelicans fanatic superfan and they were on the verge of making a serious run. Think that is when they had AD, Cuz, Rondo, Miller and Liggins. That injury completely changed everything and the team got blown up at the end of the season.
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That team was definitely fun to watch seeing that many Kentucky players come together on a team. Darius Miller came back a 3-point sharpshooter during his 2nd tenure with NOP and for a period of time in 2017-18 when he only trailed Tatum for highest 3-point % in the entire league.
When a basketball player tears their Achilles I always think about the game when Kobe tore his. He tried to pull it back into place so he could finish the last 3 minutes of the game. He made two free throws and walked off the court unassisted with Jack giving him a standing ovation in the background.
Sac trading him cost him 200 million and then the Achilles happened . I felt bad for him .
The game before he tore his Achilles Boogie played 51 minutes against Chicago .
Wish Tatum well and hope he can recover to be close to the same player he has been. Terrible injury that has detailed so many others. Seems like a good guy too in addition to being a great player.
If you do believe in evolution then humans began walking bipedally 6-7 million years ago. Now granted everyone's idea of time is different but I wouldn't consider 6-7 million years "relatively recently" but to each his own.
Feel bad for him even if he did play at Duke. Worst injury you can have in sports. He will never be the same.
In terms of evolution, it's incredibly short. Life has been on earth for roughly 3.5 billion years. Probably longer. We're closer to living in the time of the Tyrannosaurus rex than the T. Rex was to living in the time of the Stegosaurus. There were fossils of dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period... While the Cretaceous period was ongoing. Evolution is cool.
That's my time frame. Yes, 6-7mya seems like a long time, and it absolutely is in the context of our very short lives.
I don’t get this meme. Is it saying that evolution hasn’t been observed? Is this one of those speciation arguments?
I don’t recognize the guy in the meme so not sure what this is trying to say.
No way they cut games due to money. They will add more players and mandate rest days.
Lol. Not sure I get it either. I was piling on a potential debate about the validity of evolution theory on a thread about a torn Achilles.
Celtics won by 25 to force a Game 6 in their first game without Tatum.
It's all about additional revenue for the owners, they could give a crap about their players.
Just one more reason why I will always be a Laker fan.
But the Celtics are a proud franchise, and knowing the series between the Celtics and Knicks, I am still not totally convinced the Knicks will finish them off.
Hated seeing what happened to Tatum though. Heartbreaking, shocking. Never like to see it when it happens. I hope he comes back to stay the level of player post injury he is in going down.
I have to at at least say that I think over the last 2 years, he's been the best player on the best team in the NBA. This year might've been 3 in a row. It looked like he really was Superman.
Many interesting stories in the NBA this year.
Good to hold me over until Kentucky basketball begins once again...