We have seen too often how dramatically a season can turn based on a moment of terrible fortune. We saw Jayson Tatum’s Achilles blow up last spring, not long before Tyrese Haliburton blew up his Achilles, not long after Damian Lillard blew up his Achilles.
A few weeks ago the entire city of Denver held its breath when Nikola Jokic hurt his knee. That could’ve meant the season if the images had come back bad, and with it any reasonable expectation of the Nuggets playing truly meaningful games in the springtime. The news was good: Jokic only missed a couple of weeks, and was in the lineup Wednesday night when the Nuggets visited the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
Josh Hart wasn’t there; he tweaked his ankle during a routine play during the laugher over Washington a night earlier. Deuce McBride wasn’t there, either, since he’s still dealing with chronic ankle pain serious enough that it’s merited a fresh reevaluation by Knicks team doctors.
Basketball has always been a game that’s been deadly on ankles, on knees, on shoulders and hamstrings and groins, and that’s only become more so as the speed of the game has intensified as has the across-the-board skill level of most of the players in the league.
Disclaimer : This story is auto aggregated by a computer programme and has not been created or edited by DOWNTHENEWS. Publisher: nypost.com
