It was almost exactly two years ago when Kevin Durant ruptured his Achilles tendon. On Tuesday, he rescued the Nets’ season with 49 points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists against the Bucks.
, an injury that destroyed the careers of professional athletes before him, lasted roughly an hour. The operation was followed by thousands of hours of rehab, with hundreds of millions of dollars riding on the strength of a few inches of tissue in his right foot.was that he would return as the best player in the world.
But in the early months of his remarkable comeback with the Brooklyn Nets this year, it became clear to anyone who watched him that something extraordinary was happening. After the injury, the surgery and the rehab that cost him a full season in the prime of his career, Kevin Durant was playing like Kevin Durant again. The caretakers of the most precious tendon in sports were so impressed that they began to think he would approach a full recovery at two years.
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