Just watched the video of the play in Houston. 1. he grabbed his calf. Now it could be he was grabbing for his achilles and just didn't reach all the way down, but he didn't grab his achilles. 2. Also on the video, it shows him walking off through the tunnel before play had resumed in the game. the courtside reporter says "the warriors have told me it is a strained calf muscle and he won't return. So the warriors said it was a calf IMMEDIATELY, not the next day. 3. Despite the announcers jumping all over it being the achilles, I think his reaction was perfectly consistent with a calf strain. If the announcers had never said achilles no one would have thought it, given that the warriors immediately told them calf strain.Big C said:1. No, not really.concordtom said:No way!Big C said:Don't you think KD's injury last month was actually an Achilles (not a complete tear or rupture, obviously) and not a calf? That was certainly the way the announcers were describing it, at the time, when he initially went down. It would explain why he took so long to come back and also better explain Bob "Sensitive Guy" Myers' tearful "Blame me" speech last night.concordtom said:
In the old days, when guys were injured, people would say "gut it out. How tough are you? Don't be a p*ssy."
Those are NOW the old days.
I'd have never thought he could blow out his Achilles based on a weak calf.
People will now say KD response was wrong, and that Kawhi response was right.
Rest, get 100% healthy.
I don't believe that at all.
1. KD grabbed his calf, not his Achilles, as he did last night.
2. He never had a boot on, like he did last night.
3. Announcers can guess and pontificate all they want about the injury. They are not doctors, they are not Kerr, who spoke on it. He doesn't lie. And I don't believe the doctors or staff would lie to him.
4. If it was Achilles related, no way would he have come back so soon.
I didn't know he could mess up his achilles with it being a calf. I had heard talk of that, and suppose the staff should have known, so that TOTALLY sucks.
But like I said, an historic 3-peat was right there for the taking. How many could resist that, provided they thought the calf could not I jure him worse (which is what Kerr said they believed).
2. ?!?
3. Get real.
4. Could have been Achilles, but not complete tear or rupture.
When Durant got injured last month, they kept replaying it and the announcers kept saying it sure looked like an Achilles. The next day, nope, it's a calf, but then he can't come back for FOUR WEEKS, even though Klay and Looney are coming back from a hamstring and a torn cartilage after only two DAYS (it is the finals, after all). Then, when he finally comes back, after only one quarter, he suddenly tears that Achilles, which had been "perfectly healthy" prior?!? It ISN'T a very common injury, you know.
And what's with that phony-azz Bob Myers? Okay, I get it's 2019 and men can cry. And I get he really, REALLY cares about his players (especially when they're superstars he wants to re-sign). When he was crying for multi-millionaire Kevin Durant getting injured, all I could think about were the THOUSANDS of people going on disability this month who have been barely able to make ends meet for their families and now what are they going to do? Pooooor Kevin Durant: All those questions from the media -- ALL THROUGHOUT THE YEAR -- and now he's injured! Some guys just have a rough life...
The warriors had no idea that the announcers were making it out to be an achilles, so they had no reason to make up a story at that point. They told the courtside reporter what it was based on Durant telling them.