The star of Miluoka Bax Damian Lillard tore his left Achilles tendon, the team announced on Monday. This is news, what Bax was afraid It will be confirmed after MRI on Monday, and now a sobering reality has entered. Lillard will miss the rest of the play -off for bucks and probably also miss a good piece – if not all – from rehabilitation next season from the injury.
The injury occurred only six minutes after the first quarter of the game 3 on Sunday. Lillard tried to attract an insulting rebound from the missed Gary Trent Jr. Jr., but when he tried to accelerate, the All-Star guard was crumpled to the ground, noticeably in pain. The game continued when Lillard was sitting on a 3-point line, and when Kyle Kudadarma tried to help him from the floor on the next dead ball, Lillard could not put the weight on his left leg. The ALL-NBA guard helped the team’s medical staff on the BAC bench when he jumped on one leg right back into the locker room.
Lillard was excluded from the game until the end of the first half with what they called the “injury of the lower left leg.”
This is a destructive blow to Lillard, who had just returned from another failure, a bunch of blood, who kept him aside for the last 13 games of the regular season and the 1st match in the play -off miluo against Indiana Pisers. The return of Lillard from the bloody clot was incredibly fast, given that other players, most recently, Viktor Vembanyam in February, ended the season after the diagnosis. But Lillard was from a medical point of view to return to the court and played in each of the last three Games of Miluoi.
Damian Lillard’s injury – the last turn of the knife is that it was a cruel ending of his heyday
Sam Quinn
In the first two games ago, it was obvious that there was a little rust for knocking down, gaining an average of only 10.5 points, six gears and three selection by 24% from the field and 18% from the range of 3 points. These are incredibly uncharacteristic numbers for Lillard, who built his career, huddled in bundles and forces his opponents to pay for his even a piece of the room, especially from the arc. But Lillard’s presence was positive for Miluoka, even if it did not appear in boxing. So, for its end of the season to be incredibly unsuccessful.
“I saw the trauma squeeze the teams. Tonight, it hurt. I thought our guys tried, but it was difficult, ”said Bucks head coach Doc Rivers after the game on Sunday. “All of them are there in a break in the training room. After that, it is very difficult to talk to the team. My work within the next 40 hours is to make us vertically to try to win one game in Indiana and try to return it here. But my brain is in the same place where the players are with a lady. ”
This is a depressing situation for Lillard, and equally depressing the result for bucks, which are on the verge of building before the game 5 in Indiana on Tuesday (bucks +275 on a monetary line, on Caesar).
Looking beyond this season, this is an even more shaky situation for Lillard, bucks and superstars of the team Giannis Antetokunmpo. Lillard will turn 35 in the next season and try to return from tears in Achilles tendon, and not an ideal combination for the team trying to win the championship. Antetokounmpo will be 31 years old next year, still in the midst of his heyday, but with the aging, now wounded colleague next to him. This is a similar situation when it was Chris Middleton, lining up next to Antetokounmpo, who tried his best to remain healthy during the years when Miluoi won the title in 2021. Unfortunately, with Lillard’s injury, this will again raise the question of the question. Future Antetokounmpo with bucksField
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