[Source](https://x.com/wojespn/status/1765746658975928544?s=20).
I am absolutely in the denial stage of grief right now and am fully latching on to the notion that it’s not a full year and he’ll be back this season.
Is it a tear or not? Shams’ tweet seemed much more definitive, but he did also add the caveat that they’re looking for additional opinions. This feels like the kind of thing where we’re not gonna know for sure for another few days.
by EsotericPotato
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someone posted this 8 minutes go and it got flagged as a duplicate by the mods so hopefully this one stays up
Soooo this is a lot different than the tone of shams’ report
This sounds way different than Shams.
Woj…bomb?
WTF does “if any” mean? He was out tonight with knee soreness yesterday. So yea he was scheduled to miss at least a game
Don’t play with my emotions Woj
He might play through it?? idk about that chief.
Hopefully it’s not a tear and KAT can manage the injury with a brace or through something like minute restrictions. 🙏
IF ANY?????? Wtf it is shit I can’t take it. Somebody tell me the truth
We should have trade him when we could have gotten good pieces in return. I knew he wasn’t reliable since day 1
Please rest up and if he can be healthy for playoffs that would be great. But I really don’t want him to risk his career to play before he’s ready
It depends how bad of a tear it is. If it is even a tear. A mild meniscus tear typically takes a month to recover from. Hope for a speedy recovery for KAT. This season isn’t doomed yet.
Bless the knees and keep them healthy.
Ronald Acuña in the MLB just went through a meniscus injury and it ended up being best case scenario and he’ll only miss a few weeks.
Not to play doctor, but here’s a doctor that does a lot of baseball injury reporting/understanding walking through the Acuña scenario. It ended up being option 1.
[Dr’s take](https://x.com/drjessemorse/status/1764028162952880183?s=46&t=bGTfIr6WtdxX4uLP4nhJwA)
My pet theory is that this knee has been bugging him off and on since he had that weird hypertextention and then bumped his knee on the padding a few plays later (maybe a month or so ago)? So he’s been playing on his partially torn meniscus for a while and it wasn’t getting better (and may have gotten inflamed when he did so many back to backs) and THIS is when they figured out he has a tear. They checked it out, confirmed a tear and now he has to decide if he can rest and then tough it out with proper management and rehab/repair in the off season, or if he just has a procedure now in hopes to be back at 100% by playoffs.
SEND HIM TO GERMANY!!!
We got Embiid’s PR team
As a Thunder fan I want him back too so we can destroy y’all and crush y’all souls in the playoff. Injuries suck, but there part of the game and I hope he comes back soon. We know the feeling of losing a star to injury when you feel like you can win it all.
Towns is an Asshole
Guessing it comes down to whether he can play through it and how much further damage that would do.
But typically meniscus injuries have a relatively quick recovery time, so surgery now, I’d think he could be back for the playoffs.
I work in medical leaves. The avg amount of time out for a heavy duty role, which we’ll use for the nba. Median 35 days if no surgery. Median 42 days if arthroscopic meniscectomy.
The play-in starts 4/20 so I’m not panicking. I’m going to think of this as about a month’s time for Kat to prep for the playoffs.
Mesicus injuries are complicated. He could be out a year or he could be out a few weeks. Fully depends on the tear type/severity and what route they choose for correction.
Bubble Tj Warren time!