Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton last to succumb to Achille’s injury during the NBA playoffs
Could Achille lesions be the NBA Achilles heel?
Regardless of loyalty, anyone who looked at the game 7 of the NBA finals on Sunday had to be affected by the impact calammus of the Aquunio at the Tyrese Haliburton superstar on the Pacers of Indiana.
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Haliburton had the ball in the first quarter, took a step back and started going left. Pushing away with his right foot, the right tendon snatched and the chances of defeating Oklahoma City’s thunder were destroyed.
“At that moment, my heart fell for him,” the Okc guard and the Shai Gilgeous-Alexander finals told journalists. “I couldn’t imagine playing the biggest game of my life and something like this. It’s not right.”
It is also not uncommon. Haliburton was the third superstar lost during the playoffs with a tear of Achilles, following Damian Lillard of the Milwaukee Bucks and Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics.
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The players who suffered the injury during the regular season include Dejounte Murray of the Pelicani of New Orleans, Dru Smith of the Miami Heat and two of the teammates of the Indiana of Haliburton: Isaiah Jackson and James Wiseman.
The doctor of regenerative medicine Jesse Morse stressed in the post X posts that the deformation of the high degree calf suffered in the game 5 was a precursor of Achille’s injury.
“Hailburton was playing with fire playing 6 and 7 games after diagnosing a high -grade veal voltage, an injury that is notoriously slow to heal,” Morse wrote. “There was a significantly increased risk of a possible tear of Achilles due to the fact that it already had the tension of the high degree calf, regardless of what the” data “show.
“We saw him with Kobe Bryant. We saw him with Aaron Rodgers. Probably more. A deformation of the calf led to a tear of Achilles.”
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Bryant broke his left Achille on April 12, 2013, after playing every minute of eight consecutive quarters while the Lakers pursued a playoff point with two remaining games in the regular season. Bryant had undergone injuries to the knees at the beginning of the game. He returned to action eight months later.
Rodgers snatched his left Achilles in his first game as New York Jets quarterback on 11 September 2023, shortly after experiencing the hold in his calf. He lost the whole season but returned in 2024 at the age of 41.
The Achille tendon is a fibrous cord who directs the movement from the leg to the foot, connecting the muscles from the calf to the heel bone. A sudden explosive movement such as running or leap can cause tenders or breaking of the tendon.
The origin of the term Achille derives from the hero of that name in Greek mythology. His mother tried to make him immortal by immersing him in a river that contained magical powers. He kept him for the heel, however, leaving him vulnerable.
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Quite safe, the apparently eternally brave Achilles were killed by an arrow in the heel during the Trojan war. Achilles’ heel has been known since then as a metaphor of a person’s vulnerable point.
Haliburton has certainly shown a talent for heroic throughout the season, culminating in the skipped shot that he made with 0.3 seconds to play in game 1 of the finals that gave Pacer a victory over the Thunder strongly favored.
He helped them to reach Game 7 and hit a trio of shots in three points at the beginning of the race only unfortunately-of the land on the ground when his Achilles tendon appeared. Thunder prevailed, 103-91.
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“We needed Ty out there,” the Pacers Obi Toppin striker told journalists. “For him to go down in such a game, who sucked our soul.”
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.