Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 8:54 am Post subject: BREAKING NEWS: Durant Out 4 to 6 Months due to surgery
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Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City’s All-Star forward and the NBA’s 2014 Most Valuable Player, has been shut down from basketball activity by the team due to continued soreness in his surgically repaired right foot, with no timetable for his return.
Thunder general manager Sam Presti announced the decision, taken as a precautionary measure and in response to Durant’s discomfort, in a Friday morning media session. “Right now, we’ve decided to take him off the floor so the people who are the experts can make the [medical] determination,” Presti said. “When he’s able to play without that soreness, he’ll be back on the floor.”
Durant, 26, played in just 27 of the Thunder’s 68 games heading into the matchup against Atlanta in Oklahoma City. He missed the season’s first 17 games after fracturing his foot in the preseason, returned for nine, then was sidelined for six more.
The four-time NBA scoring champ, also enduring a sprained ankle and a sprained toe, returned to action Dec. 31 and played in 18 of 22 heading up through the All-Star break in February. But on Feb. 23, Durant had a second surgery to replace a screw in his right foot and has not played since.
Durant has averaged 25.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 33.8 minutes. Currently No. 8 in the Western Conference, the Thunder has gone 18-9 in his 27 starts vs. 20-21 in the games Durant has not played.
Red alert. Not a good sign at all.
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My hypothesis is he's been trying to rush back to the court when he's not fully recovered from the surgery. Seeing as he got this surgery to remove soreness, what else could it be? _________________ Author of James Harden and the Strip Club
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:54 am Post subject:
ahaider wrote:
My hypothesis is he's been trying to rush back to the court when he's not fully recovered from the surgery. Seeing as he got this surgery to remove soreness, what else could it be?
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Honestly hope it's not a Grant Hill situation. _________________ Resident Car Nut.
OKC is in a bad situation this season with all the injuries. Makes sense they would shut him down. They definitely won't be going deep in the playoffs if Durant isn't fully healthy.
So, if we get him in 2016 and he gets hurt we'll have half the people here claiming that Jim and Mitch are idiots for signing him because of the warning signs.
If we don't get him, but he ends up fine, we'll have those same people claiming that Jim and Mitch are idiots for not getting him.
So, if we get him in 2016 and he gets hurt we'll have half the people here claiming that Jim and Mitch are idiots for signing him because of the warning signs.
If we don't get him, but he ends up fine, we'll have those same people claiming that Jim and Mitch are idiots for not getting him.
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:08 pm Post subject:
Geez, this is terrible. I hope his career doesn't follow the Yao route. Sucks that he's had a really off year this season. Hopefully he can get back to being 100% by October.
A real shame and has become a legit concern. Let's cross our fingers that things will be okay for KD down the line. _________________ Smrek 2, Nevitt 1, Barkley 0
This puts Durant in a tough spot with his free agency coming up. His health is obviously the key issue. If there's any discomfort at all, will he just play it safe most of the time and sit? It's almost prudent for him to do so because something major could cost him quite a bit. _________________ Smrek 2, Nevitt 1, Barkley 0
My hypothesis is he's been trying to rush back to the court when he's not fully recovered from the surgery. Seeing as he got this surgery to remove soreness, what else could it be?
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Honestly hope it's not a Grant Hill situation.
I'm afraid it's going to be. Those types of fractures are very prone to malunion and chronic problems. That he is having this much difficulty already doesn't bode well. And as we all know, big men, foot problems are not good in the NBA. There is an orthopod who posts here, I wonder what he has to say. I'll check in with a friend who is a podiatrist and loves sports to see what he has to say. _________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― James Baldwin, Collected Essays
When they asked him directly if Durant would miss the rest of the season, he responded with, "that seems to be the direction we're heading." Guy obviously doesn't want to commit to anything.
Hope he is ok, but also that we can get a chance at and then take the risk to get him. He's that great, that we take another huge swing for the fences with Nashlike risk looming, given our current position.
But whereever he is, I do hope he can resume his career unabated some point. Top 2 talent still and driven.
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 4:32 pm Post subject:
ahaider wrote:
My hypothesis is he's been trying to rush back to the court when he's not fully recovered from the surgery. Seeing as he got this surgery to remove soreness, what else could it be?
Spoke to Podiatrist friend. Says that KD should have been out for the season once he had the initial fracture. That being said, he should be fine come next season. _________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― James Baldwin, Collected Essays
it could be that his career is likely over... this looks like Grant Hill in 99 _________________ "Now, if life is coffee, then the jobs, money & position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold & contain life, but the quality of life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
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