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Exum Injured

He's back out on the bench. Someone please tell me this is a good sign. If he had torn a ligament would they really have him back out watching the game?

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For the record, I had a knee on knee the other day (medial side) and my knee totally gave out, and I had trouble walking for the rest of the night.

Turned out just being a lil sprain, and I was fine in a week. There's a small chance he might be okay.
 
dalamon said:
How many injuries does that put the 2014 draft class at? There was a brilliant article done by ESPN regarding how so many young guys are suspiciously getting crazy injuries early on in their careers.

This is happening too often to be a coincidence. He's still growing. He needs to hit weights, strengthen his body. Extremely sad for him, and I hope it's more like Demarre's injury than it is like Jabari's.
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If this is the case the medical staff should have known about the risk and either not draft him (if they wanted instant gratification) or have him strengthen up and get some burn in the D-League, gradually getting stronger. He's only 19, if he needed 2 more years to be NBA ready then so be it. There was no contact so obviously there was something else going on. Way to go Jazz staff.
 
dalamon said:
For the record, I had a knee on knee the other day (medial side) and my knee totally gave out, and I had trouble walking for the rest of the night.

Turned out just being a lil sprain, and I was fine in a week. There's a small chance he might be okay.
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Unfortunately the video doesn't really show a knee on knee collision, so your experience may not be similar.
 
There was nothing mechanically strange about the way he drove or went up, which suggests this is likely something that was waiting to happen, and not a minor injury caused by over-extension, pulled muscle, sprained ankle, or what have you.

I'm super worried.
 
Whatever this is, it will show us if Exum is a fast healer or if he heals like Carlos Boozer. Hopefully not the latter.
 
So he was putting weight on his leg why he went back to the bench...I don't know if that means anything.

Jazz PR master Jonathan Reinhart tweeted that Exum is coming to SLC for further evaluation at the u of u.


After learning it was his left knee, I watched the video again. It appears that after the jump stop his knee bends inward a little awkwardly. At first I thought it was him trying to use his legs to move his momentum away from the help defender coming at him, but it could be that his knee gave out causing the change in direction.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cEToH7VZZ8

Here is Demarre injury. He recovered fast and didn't have ligament damage. Hopefully Exums is similar.
 
mellow said:
So he was putting weight on his leg why he went back to the bench...I don't know if that means anything.

Jazz PR master Jonathan Reinhart tweeted that Exum is coming to SLC for further evaluation at the u of u.
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I tore my mcl playing basketball and kept playing for a while (did not know it was torn at the time). I was always able to put weight on it.
 
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