Earlier, Durant did an MRI to check the knee that was injured yesterday. The results showed a sprained medial collateral ligament of the left knee, no structural injury, and an adequate blood supply in this location to help restore. Zion has not been able to come back so far, in addition to his own weight problems, there is also a fracture of the fifth metatarsal bone blood supply is insufficient, is not conducive to recovery, so after the injury regression, pelicans and he took injection treatment to recover from the injury.
Back to the point, Durant's injury, the Nets optimistically expect 4-6 weeks, can fully recover. This can also refer to the previous 2017 Durant injury, and this time similar, after being crushed by slag, diagnosed as a secondary sprain of the medial collateral ligament of the left knee and a tibia bruise, and finally stopped injured 19 games, after the comeback in the state of no damage, durant got the FMVP that season.
In addition, the injury also gives Durant a breather, so far this season, Durant's average playing time per game is the fifth in the league, it is worth mentioning that the second is Harden, and the third is James and Tatum. Tatum is young and strong, but both James are thirty-year-olds, and as a result, they are still working as workers.
However, this break, Durant's scoring champion, MVP and a burst may not be played.
Because the league has a Rondo clause that stipulates that a player must participate in 70% of the games (58 games in a normal season, proportional to a shrink season) before he can be included in the statistics list. If there are fewer than 58 appearances (or 70%), then the overall data must be divided by 58 (or 70%) to participate in the ranking.
Magic 58, and this clause is related to Rondo and Paul.
In the 2012-13 season, Rondo made just 38 appearances and scored 420 assists, eventually winning the league's assists king with an average of 11.1 assists per game. Paul, who has played 70 times and averaged 9.7 assists per game, has no chance, because the original rule has a loophole, as long as a player "70 or more appearances" and "total scores more than 1400 points, total rebounds more than 800, total assists more than 400" can run. That's not fair to a healthy player, so the NBA uses new provisions to fill the holes.
Durant has to play at least 58 games this season, and he has now taken six breaks and missed more than 18 games, so even if he averages first in points per game, he may not be able to score the king.
MVP, remember Embiid, last year he was at the top of the MVP list, but after the knee anti-joint injury, he withdrew from the MVP competition.
Although there is no explicit rule on the number of matches in a squad, when other players are healthy and performing well, too many absences may become one of the reasons for losing the selection.
But what Durant really needs than honors is more rest so that he can save his strength for the title. But on the other hand, Harden's time is not estimated, even if 11 of the next 13 games are away, Irving can share some for him, when he gets on the plane today, Harden's expression is not too good, and it seems that he guessed that the day of cruelty is coming again.