Injuries become the history of the NBA playoffs. And not even the stars of the game are safe

Associated Press

These are the NBA playoffs of survival, in which not even the stars are safe.

The most recent big blow in this post -season: Jayson Tatum was picked up on Monday evening, with every preliminary indication that he will not be nearby with defending champion Boston Celtics this season.

Stephen Curry from Golden State can have more time before his injured knee tendon enables him to play again. Donovan Mitchell from Cleveland is dealing with an ankle problem. If the season of the Los Angeles Lakers had become lower, LeBron James would have got out the way with a knee grinding. And Milwaukees Damian Lillard opened his Achilles, undoubtedly asked the next season and also raises questions about Giannis Antetocounmpo's future.

In some cases, the Sternmacht has disappeared into different pain, and there is no question that injuries to the history of this post -season become. For Lillard – and now possibly Tatum, depending on what MRI and other exams show – injuries could also be part of the story next season.

“Obviously we want to go out and compete, but when a player goes down and he rolls in pain, you know that something is wrong,” said Jalen Brunson, the New York Guard Jalen Brunson, after seeing Tatum's injury on Monday evening. “Well, that's why I only gave my thoughts and prayers – because you never want to see something like that.”

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Overcoming injuries is only part of the NBA Life, said Bucks Coach Doc Rivers.

“The human spirit is amazing,” said Rivers. “It's really.”

And the hits come again and again in the playoffs. The stars injured the most part of Cleveland's starting line-up was attacked in these playoffs. Even teams who win this do not do this in almost 100% – Brunson is typical to do with an ankle problem and somehow does not slow him down.

“Every year, playoffs are concerned with adaptation, be it a schedule or injury or a list,” said Steve Kerr, coach of Golden State, shortly after Curry was injured in the second round of the Warriors against Minnesota. “So we just have to adapt.”

In the series with 3-1 and a Win-Or-Else game on Wednesday, the Warriors have no time to adapt. There will be an update to Curry's status on Wednesday, said Kerr. It doesn't seem that Curry plays in game 5.

“We won't surpass this thing,” said Warriors striker Draymond Green. “If he is in a place where he can play, I am sure that he will do it.

In a collision with Donte Divincenzo from Minnesota, James was injured late in the leading game of the Lakers of the season, a defeat in game 5 of an opening matchup. James later revealed that he could probably not have continued, even if the lakers won this game because of a knee climbing that did not need an operation, but needed weeks to heal.

“Even if we had won game 5 at home, I would probably have missed 6 and 7 and even further,” said James in his podcast “Mind the Game” with Steve Nash. “However, I have some time. I have some time to do it right.”

Tatum had an absolute monster game for Boston on Monday: 42 points, eight rebounds, four assists, four steals and two blocked shots – numbers that nobody in the history of Celtics, at least since each of these statistics, had ever ended a game.

In view of the severity of the injury, these statistics did not seem much to be and what it could mean for Celtics – a team that is on the right track to face a potential record content and a luxury tax calculation that could exceed 500 million US dollars next season.

“He was a great player,” said Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau. “And he is also a great guy.”

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