It s no accident that the record-breaking example of Achilles tendon has been set this season? Everything has traces to follow, and it s shocking

Now, looking back at the scene of Halliburton's injury, it looks very similar to the scene of Durant's injury in the finals!

The reason why the Pacers started with a strong momentum in the finals was that Halliburton's firepower was fully opened.

At the beginning of that game, Halliburton was very aggressive on the offensive end, and the three-pointer pierced through the basket again and again like a hundred steps, and 3 of 5 three-pointers scored 9 points early...

Then Halliburton slipped and dropped the ball without any confrontation in the offense. At that time, we might be upset how he made such a low-level mistake that he was able to counterattack by his opponent Thunder...

But when the Thunder successfully counterattacked the ball and returned to the Pacers, when Halliburton still fell to the ground and beat the floor in pain, we felt that the situation was not good...

Finally, Halliburton limped away from the arena with the support of his teammates, and he never returned to that game!

Durant was in this situation back then. The firepower at the beginning of the game was unstoppable, and the scores were visible to the naked eye. After a brief brave performance, he slipped and injured without any confrontation, and then left the court in disgrace...

There will be reimbursed for the entire season.

Time is turned back to the G5 of the finals on June 11, 2019. In the early part of the second quarter of the Warriors and Raptors, Durant, who was on the court, held the ball in an offense and then slipped without any confrontation, and was finally determined to be a ruptured Achilles tendon.

In that game, Durant scored 11 points efficiently after only 11 minutes of playing, but it was Durant's last Warriors' masterpiece!

This year's Halliburton was injured early in the tiebreak in the finals. It was also a serious injury with a torn Achilles tendon. It is likely to be reimbursed next season, which is a pity.

It is worth mentioning that Lillard and Tatum, who are also wearing No. 0 jerseys in the playoffs this season, also suffered a torn Achilles tendon.

It is worth mentioning that whether Halliburton, Lillard and Tatum, these three brothers will be basically reimbursed next season, which will have a devastating impact on the team.

However, this season, people with a torn Achilles tendon are far from the above three, and they started earlier in the summer league.

Last summer league, Nuggets potential rookie Holmes fell due to an Achilles tendon injury before he officially started his personal NBA debut (Summer League), and was immediately reimbursed for the entire season.

During the long regular season, Pelicans defenders Dezhangtai Murray, Isaiah Jackson, Pacers center James Wiseman, and Drew Smith suffered Achilles tendon tear one after another.

In other words, there were 8 cases of Achilles tendon tear this season, and the previous record for a single season was only 5, which was still in the 2014-15 season.

The impact of a tear in the Achilles tendon on an NBA star is self-evident. For example, Kobe, all his strength has caused serious damage to his physical function due to a ruptured Achilles tendon. Since then, the competitive state has declined and he has lost his courage to the peak...

Count the NBA from 1990 to 2023, a total of 45 NBA players have suffered this severe damage. On average, there are only 1.36 injuries to tear in the Achilles tendon in each season.

So the question is, why are the examples of Achilles tendon tearing in the 2024-25 season far more than 5 times the historical average?

Perhaps this is closely related to factors such as the fast pace of modern basketball, intensive schedule, and high number of rounds.

Modern basketball has increasingly demanded players' explosive power. High-frequency high-speed direction changes and emergency stops. These large-scale movements are extremely challenging for players' lower limbs...

NBA currently averages up to 109 rounds in one game, the fastest since the early 1970s. When fast pace becomes mainstream, the huge price is that the players' bodies on the verge of collapse...