Ant got a bone bruise in game 4 vs the Nuggets and was back for game 1 vs the Spurs. This is amazing news for Orlando

This isn’t best case scenario. It’s the miracle scenario.

Yeah, that’s about as good of news as he could have gotten, but I hope he’s cautious.

His knee buckled and hyper-extended

The sports injury doctor guy made a video yesterday about Suggs, and it was pretty on point. He didn’t give a definitive prediction, but seemed optimistic that it was just a bone bruise/hyperextension, and no ACL tear. Linking for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzj8-b8XdkI.

A knee hyperextension is often diagnosed as a bone bruise. Nothing snapped, but extreme pressure was put on the joint at an atypical position, and that causes damage/bruising to the bone itself.

Giannis’ hyperextension during his finals run was when I was first made aware that it caused a bone bruise.

Edit: A good example of the same injury from Ant last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydjt5NvMDvI

You can get bone bruises from stress injuries. All you gotta do is damage the blood vessels so if you’re doing something like jumping it can be extreme or awkward enough to damage them

Impact causes bones to bang together or grind when they shouldn’t.

Big nuts hit his knee

Doesn’t Suggs have no cartridge in one or both of his knees? I would imagine this type of thing and worse is only a matter of time for someone running around with bone on bone contact in his knees

A bruise is just anywhere you have a significant external (not in blood vessels) bleed, it isn’t defined by being struck by something, it’s a result of any sort of trauma

Bone bruise is a pretty open ended term tbf

It happened to me. I thought I tore something. I heard a pop when I jumped and everything. Mri came back bone bruise. They said I should be better in about 2 months. It took 6 months and everytime I used the stairs it was a bitch.

Feels like “non-contact” is a slightly odd way to describe someone landing that heavily on one leg. It’s not like Hali etc where his leg just gave up during a relatively normal motion.

Jokic had same thing happen last season and got a bone bruise. Basically the two bones across the joints smack into eachother

I’m guessing his knee joint compressed and slammed the two bones together. It looked like he hyperextended it a bit as well.

His knee buckled in the air and hyper-extended. A ACL would’ve looked a lot different

A bone bruise can mean a few things, it can either be the thin lining around the bone is saturated with blood because it or another structure within the knee was stressed to the point of bleeding (which seems likely given the short evaluation time, this is best case scenario).

It can also mean either a joint, or the bone itself suffering a large bleed which afaik aren’t commonly heard of because when that happens, it’s usually alongside a significant fracture or tear.

At this point it doesnt surprise me. From side it feels like he’s 50% of time injured.

From jamming your knee joint into your tibia. Same thing happened to Giannis a few years back in the playoffs

I mean it happens from over extensions p often as well could be a similar mechanism idk

He wasn’t thinking properly

Hi tendons aren’t strong enough to hold his body parts together inline where they should be when he makes quick bursts of movement.

Yeah definitely huge relief. ACL tears are more common with valgus stress, where Suggs hyperextension was leaned more varus. He’s a lucky man.

I feel like it’s like any other job in that they see things so many times they can often just tell insantly.

This is the opposite of dropping like flies. He was already dropped and just came back from the dead

No idea. Something like a tibial plateau bruise? The guy is not going to have a healthy remainder to his career getting hurt like that.

Watch Bo Jackson’s broken hip play. They said if he wasn’t so strong and fast it wouldn’t have broken