LuckyNumber7
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Not a doctor but unless his half muscle gave way in some sort of convulsion/cramp/fold and caused the full force of that stomp to go on his achilles, it could be just totally random/not related.
Doctor Babak Baravarian, a foot and ankle specialist based in California who serves as a consultant to the ATP Tour, admitted he was surprised to see Durant on the court again so soon after his initial injury.
"What happens is he has an inflammatory process from his initial injury and he also doesn't have a good firing calf muscle because of the previous injury, so the soleus is maybe hyperextended or overworked and it causes the extra strain that cause the Achilles to tear," he explained to Omnisport.
"Normally when we deal with a college athlete or an elite athlete this is a 90-day recovery (from the initial injury).
"I don't know the level of damage he had from his initial injury but you're not talking about getting back to normal walking or shooting, you're talking about explosive-type exercise. That to me is a 90-day recovery - 30 days is still during a major inflammatory process, and 30 days is still during the very early healing process. That calf muscle healing, tendon healing is minimum about 60 days.
"I don't know who brought him back but I think it was way too early. When you're dealing with a player the caliber of Kevin Durant, with the longevity of his career being at stake, and the fact you're possibly going to cause an MVP-level player to not be able to play, this is a disaster."
"I have never seen that. I've never seen any literature to support that," Dr. John Belzer, a surgeon at California Pacific Orthopaedics, told ABC7 News. "So, it's an interesting sequence and a very unfortunate one for Kevin."
He added that, "If this is truly an Achilles injury, nobody could have seen that coming."
I am but a straw man who can not defeat the sound argument that they merely didn't care
maybe is should just say you're wrong and run away for a few days
i make no claim that there was anything nefarious or shady about it by anybody involved with KD or the team, or that this is anyone in particular's "fault". and yes of course the medical staff of the 2019 golden state warriors is considerably more advanced than the staff of the 2004 dalhousie university track team.
i'm also by no means saying that i know what happened and it's person x's fault, or anything like that. just saying that the notion that it's completely unrelated and a totally random accident doesn't pass the eye test to me.
if this were the regular season it's fairly evident that they'd have taken a lot longer to more gradually ease him back into playing at 100%. i understand that with the season on the line they didn't have that option and i think everyone involved (KD most of all) likely pushed for his return just a little too quickly. the dude hadn't even done much more than a shootaround in over a month before he went out playing at full speed. that can't be good for your risk of incurring *any* injury. and if that leg wasn't fully back to 100% his body would have made adjustments to protect it that could have caused the achilles to be abnormally strained.
of course i am neither a doctor or involved in any way so it's all just bullshit speculation until and unless we get more information eventually. i suspect that over the offseason we'll find out a lot more about what happened over the last couple of weeks and the picture will become clearer.
maybe is should just say you're wrong and run away for a few days
maybe is should just say you're wrong and run away for a few days