A 38-point gem and win for Kawhi Leonard Sunday meant so much more than just that; it was his first playoff game in 671 days. Leonard and his NBA contemporaries reflect on his — and their own — journeys back from ACL injuries. ✍️ LawMurrayTheNU
, a former Clipper who tore his ACL playing in the same EuroBasket tournament as Šarić the previous summer. This was Gallinari’s second ACL tear in his right knee.“I understand what he went through,” Gallinari said of Leonard. “My first time, even for me, the first time was a partial tear. You get surgery, you gotta go through the same process anyway. They repair the ACL anyway, even if it’s a partial tear.
“Mentally, you gotta get back into having trust in your body, trust in your leg, trust in your knee and trust your basketball skills,” he added. was Leonard’s teammate in San Antonio. Murray tore his ACL in the 2018 preseason, the same season Leonard made his debut with the Raptors. Murray would bounce back and become an All-Star before departing for the Spurs in 2022.
“It can be a challenge, just knowing where he was at in his career,” Murray said. “We get older, you know. I still think he’s a great player to talk to in this league. Obviously, health is just holding him back. But I feel like eventually, sooner than later, he’ll be able to get back to where he was. As you see, he’s playing, not playing. Minute restriction or whatever. So that should tell you, you’ll never be able to get the full Kawhi Leonard.
“There’s no turning back, during your ACL,” Ingles said. “There’s no, ‘Just go home.’ We were in Minnesota. Get back home to my family, my kids and then kind of figured out the next steps of what that looked like. And like I said, obviously not having an injury before, trying to figure out those steps of like, who do I have surgery with? Where do I go for surgery? What rehab looks like and all that.”shortly after he injured his knee.
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