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mook said:
That's all true, but Nurk is carrying around a solid 60lbs more weight than PG. A guy that big will have a lot more pressure on his leg.

Also, PG came back for 8 games at the end of the regular season, but he was terrible. 15mpg, 9pts, 3 rebs, 36%fg. He was maybe 50% of where he wanted to be.

He was pretty bad for his first 4 games in the fall when he did come back too. So the first time he played an NBA game like his old self was November 4th, a full 15 months after the injury. It would take 3 more seasons until he evolved into his current MVP caliber self.

So now imagine it's early to mid December. We're around .400, and Nurk xrays look good. He's laboring up and down the court because he's out of shape, and he's useless on pick and roll defense because he can't move his feet quick enough.

Do you think it's likely, given our history with leg problems, Portland shrugs and says "What the hell, let's play him 28mpg" with their 25 year old, locked-up-on-a-long-contract center? The Jason Quick article writes itself: "Remember how ruined Sabonis was because the Soviets brought him back to soon." It's going to be very, very tempting to shut Nurk down for the season. It starts with "playing it safe for another month", and then we get so buried in the standings that at that point the team goes all-in on tanking for a draft pick.

We've been down this path with Roy and Oden. I'm tamping my expectations way, way down.
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Except PG is more athletic so his leg was still producing and absorbing as much force when jumping/landing and accelerating/decelerating.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Any chance we can use Meyers for spare parts? Would a leg transplant heal faster than a break?
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With my 4 year old grandson all his grandma needs to do is kiss his owie and he's better. Can we fly Grandma Nurk over here to do that for Nurk. Or maybe we can sign Leonard's wife. She has a nice shot. :bgrin:
 
CupWizier said:
With my 4 year old grandson all his grandma needs to do is kiss his owie and he's better. Can we fly Grandma Nurk over here to do that for Nurk. :bgrin:
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bradk8605 said:
To any Salary Cap Wizards here, for Next season could we apply for Disabled player exception and that would help us resign our free agents?

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2017/12/hoops-rumors-glossary-disabled-player-exception.html
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In order to be eligible for that, Nurkic would have to be evaluated and determined "by an NBA-designated physician or Fitness to Play panel that the player is substantially more likely than not to be unable to play through the following June 15."

So, if his healing over the course of the summer puts him on schedule to play at all next year, then there can be no disabled player exception.
 
yuyuza1 said:
The key thing is keeping Nurk engaged mentally and in good physical condition. He can't put on more weight.
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I fully agree with the first statement, not so much with the second. His two leg injuries are the type often associated with nutritional deficits. The first one I felt was from dropping weight too fast, but he seemed like he was in a much healthier spot this year. Being light [for his build] obviously didn't help prevent this horrific injury, and he hasn't had these problems when bulked up, as far as I know, so there's no reason to conclude that adding weight during rehab will be a bad thing for his health.

I was cautiously optimistic that Nurk's game had evolved to the point where trapping Dame wouldn't be as effective in the playoffs. Sucks that we clinched a berth the day he goes down... Now the main goal is to avoid 14 straight.
 
As a Clippers fan, we of course have been carefully watching the Blazers, as (as of this moment at least) we could be playing each other in the first round of the playoffs. So, I was watching the game.

Oh God, this was one of the most sickening, heart wrenching injuries I’ve ever seen. The only other injury that I’ve seen that I can compare it to is when Shaun Livingston broke his leg back in January of 2008. I remember that injury so well to this day, and my stomach dropped seeing it, just like it dropped seeing Nurkic.

Needless to say, this is not how any Clippers fans want to face the Blazers in the playoffs, if that were to happen. This is a horrible tragedy. I went to college in Salem, Oregon. I have friends in Portland, and close family. I was just in Portland a month ago for my daughters Irish Dance competition (and spoke with numerous Lyft drivers about the Blazers, and an employee at Powells about them). I love the Rose City, and it’s the city I’d like to live in if I were not so tied to Los Angeles.

This is a terrible loss for your team. I hope Nurkic can recover. I watched Shaun Livingston recover, and now he has several championship rings. I hope your fanbase can stay strong.
 
Mistwell said:
As a Clippers fan, we of course have been carefully watching the Blazers, as (as of this moment at least) we could be playing each other in the first round of the playoffs. So, I was watching the game.

Oh God, this was one of the most sickening, heart wrenching injuries I’ve ever seen. The only other injury that I’ve seen that I can compare it to is when Shaun Livingston broke his leg back in January of 2008. I remember that injury so well to this day, and my stomach dropped seeing it, just like it dropped seeing Nurkic.

Needless to say, this is not how any Clippers fans want to face the Blazers in the playoffs, if that were to happen. This is a horrible tragedy. I went to college in Salem, Oregon. I have friends in Portland, and close family. I was just in Portland a month ago for my daughters Irish Dance competition (and spoke with numerous Lyft drivers about the Blazers, and an employee at Powells about them). I love the Rose City, and it’s the city I’d like to live in if I were not so tied to Los Angeles.

This is a terrible loss for your team. I hope Nurkic can recover. I watched Shaun Livingston recover, and now he has several championship rings. I hope your fanbase can stay strong.
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Thanks for setting up an account and saying that.
 
mook said:
That's all true, but Nurk is carrying around a solid 60lbs more weight than PG. A guy that big will have a lot more pressure on his leg.
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I'm worried about how he'll keep his weight down while he's down. Remember how incredibly hard he worked to get his weight down after we got him? And that was with full use of all his extremities.
 
Is it possible that there was an undiagnosed issue with Nurks leg, like a hairline, that caused this? As in, it was going to happen eventually, etc?
 
julius said:
Is it possible that there was an undiagnosed issue with Nurks leg, like a hairline, that caused this? As in, it was going to happen eventually, etc?
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In 2016, he had surgery on his LEFT patella tendon.

In 2017, he had a non-displaced fibular fracture in his LEFT leg.

This might not be a coincidence.

I fucking hate how long the NBA season is. Freak injuries can happen, but injuries due to overuse are a serious pet peeve of mine because they're so easy to control. I hated seeing Dame play 48 mins last night.
 
yuyuza1 said:
In 2016, he had surgery on his LEFT patella tendon.

In 2017, he had a non-displaced fibular fracture in his LEFT leg.

This might not be a coincidence.

I fucking hate how long the NBA season is. Freak injuries can happen, but injuries due to overuse are a serious pet peeve of mine because they're so easy to control. I hated seeing Dame play 48 mins last night.
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that fracture was on his right leg.
 
yuyuza1 said:
In 2016, he had surgery on his LEFT patella tendon.

In 2017, he had a non-displaced fibular fracture in his LEFT leg.

This might not be a coincidence.

I fucking hate how long the NBA season is. Freak injuries can happen, but injuries due to overuse are a serious pet peeve of mine because they're so easy to control. I hated seeing Dame play 48 mins last night.
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I think the injury in 2017 was his right leg.
 
I’m pretty sure rods are put in for injuries like this, and only taken out if they become too painful. My biggest concern with something like this isn’t the physical timeline, it’s the mental one. I’ve shattered a femur and severed a bicep completely in half, it took me much longer to mentally trust they were healed than anything.
 
Showing game on NBA TV and cut the entire seausequ. Show Nurk going for rebound, then carried away on stretcher
 
This guy is much more reliable. Wrote this before specifics were even revealed.

 
When are we supposed to get an update about his status? Is he still in surgery/hospital?
 
If you want the ultimate positivity to this situation here it is...

With Nurk out Zach gets the minutes he needs over the next year and a half to become a dominant player. We are still strapped with bad contracts next year so no real difference makers were gonna be added. Maybe by the time Nurk is fully ready physically and mentally to come back in 2021 Zach will be established as a monster and we will have added another core peice without the contract restrictions of ET/Nards/Moe?

This could all be part of the Basketball Gods plan.

There you guys go, you’re welcome.
 
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The Nurk injury feels like the Matthews injury when we are alll playing well then disasters strike. Ugh... I hate this game.
 
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