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  • Smells like someone wants to make the Kai thread become a cesspool again.

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    • With a more advance and never ending development of medical science and technology each and every year, an acl injury to an athlete is becoming more less of a concern when you compared it 10yrs ago or more. That is why I'm confident that we will see again how kai used to play. I thinks it's more on his mental aspect on how he will recover and get back his confidence.
      Ako ang may pinakamalakas na confidence!

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      • Originally posted by Metta View Post
        Ruptured and torn ACL is the same thing, just semantics. A lot of medical/surgical advancements has made ACL injuries not as devastating as before. Just a quick search will show that most NBA players who had ACL tears came back just as good. Exceptions are those complicated with age and some are really injury-prone. ACL by itself is not career-threatening.

        What happened to Kai is a "giraffe fall."

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        It's something extremely tall players are susceptible to. Wemby slipped and contorted his leg far worse but he avoided injury. I've posted earlier on things that Wemby works on to avoid injuries. The best prevention is to "bullet-proof" your body (especially lower extremities) as much as possible. Rather than avoiding getting hit (avoiding contact, using athleticism to the fullest) strengthen the body instead, because getting hit is inevitable.
        Great points bro & I very much agree with you.

        I've once read an article about what happened to NBA players who suffered ACL injuries. The article states that more than 80% of NBA players were/are able to continue their NBA careers post-ACL injuries & most were/are still the same player from pre-ACL injury as there was/is hardly any deterioration of their respective games post-ACL injury.

        So one may ask, what happened to those less than 20% ACL victims who were not able to come back to the NBA after recovering from their ACL injuries? Did their basketball career end after the injury? I think most of them (if not all) were able to contunue with their basketball careers post-ACL injuries, is just that most of them are/were just averaged or marginal NBA players in which their respective NBA teams can easily replace them with younger & uninjured players. What I mean is that, there's just too many basketball talents in the US that if one player is just an averaged or marginal player, there are too many players out there who can easily take his spots.

        For instance, an averaged NBA player who is already 29 years old suffers an ACL tear, chances are, hindi na sya kukunin ng NBA team nya because there are just too many good basketball players out there who are younger & injury free that an NBA team can recruit to serve as replacements. Now, things would be different when a NBA player hit by an ACL injury is a star or superstar. Chances are, makakabalik talaga sa NBA ang ganoong caliber na player.
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        • Originally posted by JAMSKIE View Post

          Great points bro & I very much agree with you.

          I've once read an article about what happened to NBA players who suffered ACL injuries. The article states that more than 80% of NBA players were/are able to continue their NBA careers post-ACL injuries & most were/are still the same player from pre-ACL injury as there was/is hardly any deterioration of their respective games post-ACL injury.

          So one may ask, what happened to those less than 20% ACL victims who were not able to come back to the NBA after recovering from their ACL injuries? Did their basketball career end after the injury? I think most of them (if not all) were able to contunue with their basketball careers post-ACL injuries, is just that most of them are/were just averaged or marginal NBA players in which their respective NBA teams can easily replace them with younger & uninjured players. What I mean is that, there's just too many basketball talents in the US that if one player is just an averaged or marginal player, there are too many players out there who can easily take his spots.

          For instance, an averaged NBA player who is already 29 years old suffers an ACL tear, chances are, hindi na sya kukunin ng NBA team nya because there are just too many good basketball players out there who are younger & injury free that an NBA team can recruit to serve as replacements. Now, things would be different when a NBA player hit by an ACL injury is a star or superstar. Chances are, makakabalik talaga sa NBA ang ganoong caliber na player.
          A thing to consider also is...a player may really be injury prone. And if a player is injury prone, it's highly likely that he will suffer an ACL injury. But it doesn't mean that the ACL injury was the cause of his deterioration, he was injury-prone to begin with (and that was the red flag for the teams). That's why I mentioned, ACL by itself is not career-threatening. Factors such as age is also considerable, any serious injury during late stages of a career will obviously be more impactful (yes, teams will be more hesitant to get older players who had a serious injury).

          Some guys who suffered ACL while young and looked just as strong after recovery are Zach Lavine, Mark Jackson and locally I believe Clint Escamis also suffered one early on.

          There's a whole recent study made by Stanford University on the subject. For those not inclined to read it, basically they say it's more likely one can come back just the same after an ACL injury.

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