This is 100% correct. We never wanted him that bad because if we’re being honest, he’s not that good. It’s all projection with him and I’ve said it from the start, basketball will keep getting in the way of those projections.
Basketball career was over before it started
Tore my Achilles last February, not one I'd wish on anybody.
Yea any fan bothering this dude on social media is a clown
Too may people becoming specialized in a sport at too young of an age. Every sport causes some overuse injuries specific to what that sport demands physiologically. Pitchers tear their UCL tendon, tennis players have their injuries. Basketball is murder on the knees down to the feet. It is not so much the running as it is jumping and landing on a hard surface.
Every good basketball player I knew growing up played everyday — sometimes for 6 hours — from the age of 10 through high school. And when we weren’t playing basketball, we were playing football or baseball. I was one of them. Can’t remember anyone, in high school or college, tearing their Achilles. Lots and lots of torn ligaments in the ankles, but never the Achilles.
I also had an Achilles tear plus tendinosis, had my surgery in January. Still recuperating.
I can see your point. However, Europe has the soccer academies where these kids are playing since they’re six or seven years old and you don’t see these injuries in soccer at all.
Basketball has evolved and is spread out so much now, kids are moving around alot more and are having to change directions alot more than back then. Its wearing lower bodies down