Daily News | ‘You’ve just got to survive it and play through it’: Injuries impacting NBA playoffs’ first round, including Sixers-Raptors series
As Doc Rivers watched Anthony Edwards grab his right knee and hobble to the Minnesota Timberwolves’ locker room during Game 4 of their first-round series playoff against the Memphis Grizzlies Saturday night, the Sixers coach’s mind immediately went to the worst-case scenario.Though Edwards returned to the game, Rivers’ initial reaction was understandable.
Barnes missed two games with a sprained ankle suffered in Game 1. VanVleet departed Game 4 and did not play in Game 5 with a hip strain that left him so frustrated he ripped his jersey in half. And Embiid has vowed to play through his ailment before having offseason surgery. “It’s really unfortunate,” said Sixers reserve forward Georges Niang, who noted he watched the Bucks play without Middleton and the Suns without Booker on Sunday. “That’s why, in the NBA playoffs, you kind of have to get lucky. You got to have everybody be healthy, [and] maybe you catch a couple breaks with another team missing a couple guys.
Some of these injuries, such as the tear in Embiid’s thumb that he believes occurred when the finger got twisted in a jersey during Game 3, are of the freak variety. But Rivers recently wondered if some are perhaps a byproduct of what he called the “end of the COVID tour.” “Wow, yeah. I hadn’t even thought of that,” Niang said after the Sixers’ Game 5 shootaround. “It’s really been a grind for some guys. I’m sure guys are really thinking about, after all this is over, how they’re going to be taking care of their bodies to have a first real regular offseason [since 2019].
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