I have seen 5 people tear their ACL.

1. Currently plays football in my country’s second division
2. Currently does plenty of activities, has no problems
3. Isn’t the most athletic person I know, surely he can support his weight and doesn’t give the impression of a person who tore a ligament in his youth
4. My father, lost all mobility in a leg, can barely put weight on the knee and has to regularly do check ups.
5. Was amazing playing football, came back and his whole body moves differently. He’s evidently scared to put weight on it, even after 3 years.

Yup. I’m a Sports and Ortho PT and have worked with thousands of patients with these issues.

We too commonly speak as though an X-injury is an X-injury is an X-injury and that’s just not the case. “Well, my friend had this injury and they were only in pain a few days” or “I can’t believe my friend is still in pain from this injury, I got back so quick”.

You don’t hear it as much with a full tear because, well, those are a bit more the same all around. But with strains, for example, people talk way too uniform. With Tatum last week when he was grabbing his calf - the whole reddit thread was “ohhhhh man, they gotta sit him because that’s how you tear the achilles” without any context on 1. what did he feel (was it a tightness? sharp pain? etc.) 2. where in the lower extremity did he feel it (feeling it in the achilles tendon is a LOT different than in the muscle belly of the gastroc) 3. what was the movement that caused the pain (jumping? landing? full dorsiflexion push off?)

You’re completely right.

I tore my mcl on my left knee, grade 2 tear was okay again within year and not really had more issues with it. Had a grade 2 LCL tear on my right knee and that was three years ago and I’ve still not really recovered, when I see people jump from like 2m I wince on pain and can like feel it in my knee lol. Shit is traumatic

Also age plays a factor, I had hypermobility issues as a teenager and used to dislocate or hyper extend my knees very frequently but would be better after a couple weeks. I hyper extended my knee at 32 and still have a bit of a limp 6 months later

I think this is what it boils down to. Derrick Rose was quite literally never the same after he came back from his ACL tear, and he took 18 months to get back on the floor. Some guys just respond differently than others, and at the end of the day, I trust the Wolves medical staff more than Dr. Giannis.

I was 21 at the time playing uni ball, got pushed mid-air after I stripped a guy in their back court and went up for the lay up. Sprained my ankle - the worst I’ve ever had - it took close to a year for the random pains at night to subsided. Soft tissue injuries are indeed the worst and different for so many.

Man i just turned 30 and i still love to hoop but this is what scares me now. Seeing so many players tear their Achilles of non contact is so scary

brother sounds like you just fucked yourself for your future body health. ankles are literally the things that keep you standing, not sure putting more pressure on them and snapping them back in is the go to move. god knows what kind of other compensation your body is going through just to keep you going. i only pray for your well being.

I have the same thing you do with the tendon snapping in my ankle. If I crouch really quickly the tendon slips over the outer bony part of my ankle. I sprained it really badly my senior year of highschool and it’s never been the same. I need to do stretches to prevent plantar fasciitis in the future.

And unless you’re a billionaire in assuming they got better surgeons, recovery, and PT than you.

I swear my ankles are made of steel or something. I’ve never sprained my ankle playing basketball, even though I’ve twisted them and landed on people’s feet multiple times. I never feel anything afterward. I just get fucking cramps on my calves. lol

Sign this petition to release real wolves on the court during game 3

Playing heavy minutes at 41 with sciatica is ridiculous 

He’s going to have to use the same recovery methods even after he retires to at least feel halfway comfortable. I have degenerative disc disease, dextroscoliosis and spina bifida. I have to work out and stretch just to feel 50%.

None of these guys are humans like us

People actually don’t understand how bad sciatica is.

I’d rather break a few bones than ever have to relive half of the pain sciatica inflicted. like an electric knife being jammed up your ass 100 times a day.

It is sciatica the moment you feel that pathway of pain from the sciatic nerve, so it has a very wide spectrum.

I’ve had it at a level where it just was some pain that didn’t affect what I did at all, even thought it reached all the way down through my leg. With 3 ruptured discs, I suspect you had the very opposite end of the spectrum.

They literally have the old man sitting on a special seat riser on the bench

I feel like it’s taken a toll on Bron. The biggest thing I’ve noticed is his on ball short/quick burst speed is hampered. He still has good top speed and jumping/vertical ability but even just compared to last season his first step hasn’t been the same

Idk if it’s due to his Sciatica injury or just overall age but I downplayed the injury coming into the season and didn’t think much of it. Honestly didn’t know about Sciatica until LeBron got it lol

Because Lebron has the same care like you, right? Lol the audacity to even compare

Even then he dropped 50 points and a championship ring with a finals mvp to boot

People will upvote this comment, then five years later when Ant is saying the same thing as Giannis in the OP also upvote that we should have known all along that he shouldn’t have played on it

IIRC his injury didn’t really restrict his ability to play, it only meant that if it happened again he’d be completely cooked.

Giannis was 26 at the time tbf, not a huge difference in age. Hopefully you’re right though. Do think it helps that Ant is less reliant on explosiveness than Giannis is with his shooting, but guards do need to run & sprint more than Bigs do.

Not as tall and weighs a lot less too, so less leverage being driven into the knee from the buckling.

Also Giannis can’t seem to move on from Milwaukee although he obviously wants to. Meanwhile Ant moves from one baby momma to the next in the span of months

Medical staff is under pressure. Who cares what Ant thinks. Smart move would not to put him out there until game 3

Honestly, the path might be easiest if/when the Wolves move East.

Then you just hope OKC and San Antonio beat each other up and you only have to play 1 of them in the Finals (assuming you get there, of course).

What gives me hope is that he’s playing game 1.

If there was even a shred of risk of long term damage it would make so much more sense to just sit him in game 1 to see if his team can steal that game, and if not, then play game 2, or if the wolves win game 1, then just sit until game 3. That would be the smart thing to do if there was an actual risk because you aren’t winning the series in the first game.

So to me if he plays then it probably means he’s fine. I actaully wonder how the runner’s knee is holding up with all of this.

So wolverine basically

So you wouldn’t listen to you medical staff and player? If they’re ready you’ll say longer for no other than “what if?”

He has 25 pts bet on books for game one. I have t seen an easier under. I doubt he plays even a half