KD

Fans shouldve never cheered when he got injured. Honestly most of the people in that building arent even the true fanbase at this point. Lots of em its their first time to a basketball game gauranteed. But Im sure it will have consequences longterm.

 As a basketball fan, this sucks. We’re losing yet another great player due to injury. He was killing it in the playoffs until this sad.

 Most likely scenario now is he opts in to his 31.5mil contract and stays with the Warriors to rehab all year.  Possibly returning for the playoffs and trying to get his contract next summer.  Needless to say this injury really impacts free agency this year in terms of what teams that were hoping to land him will do and with Kyrie who was rumored to want to team up with him.

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 He rushed back, and now will pay the price.

Happy they won the game he played, but hope Green was Wrong, and they cant win without him.   

Looking at timelines for this injury the best recent case scenario was about 8 months so that is mid February 2020 return, worse case is a whole year which effectively scrubs next season. Lets take middle ground and say he is back for last couple of weeks of regular season.

He has that player option which he can opt into and GSW would likely get some injury cap relief on his contract though.

Would a team risk taking a punt on an injured KD if he didn’t opt in or what if GSW decided to trade him to get some cap relief or to get some sort of asset back.

The other wildcard but unlikely thing to happen is that KD effectively becomes a FA and rehabs privately and if he does get back then he could hop onto any line up when he gets fit or he does a DMC and takes a lot less to get onto a team of choice. Lets say a team with room for a couple of top FAs also takes a cut price KD with an intent to resign him to a max the next summer.

This absolutely makes me sick. This could’ve and should’ve been avoided and the warriors front office and medical staff has some serious explaining to do. There is absolutely no way he should’ve been cleared to play so soon after what we all know now was clearly an Achilles injury and not just a routine calf strain in the first place. If you leave it up to a competitor like KD to decide if he wants to give it a go, of course he is going to play. It’s the medical staffs responsibility to step in and prevent something like this from happening. They failed him in a major way.

The whole way this was handled just flat out sucks. They downplayed the severity of the injury in the first place. The whole time all you heard was that it wasn’t an Achilles injury. This of course led the media and fans to question his toughness and commitment when he ended up being out longer than anticipated, which no doubt influenced his decision to try to play. Even though he made his first few shots you could tell his legs were extremely wobbly whenever he tried to shift direction or plant.

The negligence extends beyond kd too. Looney was cleared to go back on the court after tearing something in his chest and now appears to have injured himself further. Thompson was going to be allowed to play on a strained hamstring in game 3 before Kerr stepped in and sat him. And as much as you admire cousins for gutting it out there is probably no way he should be playing right now.Someone on the warriors staff is not doing their job or being told not to do it.

 Feels like the Warriors medical staff lied about the initial injury.