Kristaps Porzingis suffers knee injury (UPDATE: Torn ACL)

Man that sucks I like KP a lot. One of my favorite guys to watch that doesn’t play for the rockets.

He’s a very hard worker and breaths basketball so I’m sure he’ll be back stronger than ever and quicker than ppl think.

If he was putting weight on it like they say maybe it wasn’t a really bad tear and he can bounce back quick like deshaun Watson.

 

Ouch......I make the same face when a big man has this injury (Yao syndrome).

 

Horrible news. He will miss a good part of next season too so the Knicks are looking at two more years of tanking.
And their pick this year is not good enough.

Has anyone noticed that like all ACLs recently happen during January- February?
Perhaps the ASG should be moved up by a few weeks.

 

Recently? Yes, because it is February.

Historically? No, that is not the case.

 

He's so fun to watch and such a great player who's on a team we never face. Man I was rooting for him. Hope this doesn't ruin him the league needs more unicorns like him at C

 

No I meant like in the last 2-3 years.
Lavine ,Parker now Porzingis had their acls in january- february.

 

Dunno. Didn't someone start a thread this year because everyone was blowing their legs up on opening day?

**** happens.

 

I only know of Hayward on opening day and it was a broken leg.
Yeah for sure but just an observation.

Though..perhaps the characterization of "freak accident" and all "due to luck" is probably due to our lack of adequate research on the underlying causes.

There has been huge progress in treating ACLs so hopefully soon we can have ways to prevent them.

 

He was complaining of fatigue a few weeks ago and his stats showed. Even FT%. Got hammered a bit by the media for it (the complaining, not so much the stats).

 

what a crazy season. and again, it keeps happening to the good guys while f*ckers like blake and donkey play on

 

One year of Premium Bad Luck for Team Lebron!

 

Damn this really sucks, he was playing so well and just starting to embrace the role of being the man. I hope he has a solid recovery and comes back better than ever

 

how long does recovery usually take for this type of injury in bigs?

 

Gotta find ways to land properly. Gotta build up those landing skills.

Those skills are worth potentially millions of dollars.

 

I've only watched the sequence once, but I'm pretty sure his left foot landed on Giannis' foot, causing KP's ankle to turn inward. Which I guess caused a chain reaction that tore his ACL.

Hard to practice not landing on people's feet, especially with all the traffic in the paint. And it's not like KP was in a natural shooting stance, shooting a wide-open 3.

Really sucks that he's out for the season.

 

He'll probably bounce back like regular people who tear their ACLs.

This isn't a broken foot like Yao, nor a torn achilles like Boogie. An ACL tear as a season-ending injury is hardly a kiss-of-death, in today's world.

 

Sad news.

Yeah, they should practice landing like paratroopers do. Then we'll have articles like this. "Today, another NBA player limped out of practice from landing wrong during Landing Skills training."



actually, I agree with you. Being light-footed is a skill...like a dancer. Poor Unicorn landed on Alphabet's foot, in this case. So sad.

 

Can't even imagine..just doesn't seem real.

Spoiler

 

Porzingis will retire early like Yao Ming.

 

You can't expose the side of your body towards the direction of your jump like he did, obviously, unless you're going to have enough momentum to swing your body to turn your back towards the rim at the last second.

If you're going to jump like that, then dunk with two hands to brace the impact and land on your feet when you feel like you have some clearance.

If you can't do any of those things, then just go for a plain layup so that you can clear the ground in front of you since nobody was ahead of you.

I'd much rather see that than seeing him attempt a dunk like this.