Caris LeVert's injury is a Jones fracture, which is what Kevin Durant had
Caris is at the combine but not working out. He revealed that his injury is a Jones fracture, which is what Kevin Durant had a couple of years ago. Below is a link from UMHoops with an interview with Caris (please visit - I don't want to steal clicks from them), a link that gives general information on Jones fractures, and a link that talks about KD's Jones fracture and what it meant for him as far as returning to the Thunder.
If you don't want to read up on the medical information, I can tell you as a non-doctor that a Jones fracture occurs when one of the foot thingys near the baby toe suffers a boo boo - usually because of stress rather than a single incident. And unfortunately, a Jones fracture often merits surgery because the chances of reinjury are relatively high.
http://www.umhoops.com/2016/05/16/notebook-caris-levert-reveals-jones-f…
http://www.foothealthfacts.org/footankleinfo/fifth-metatarsal_fractures…
http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2014/10/12/6965691/kevin-durant-jones-fract…
EDIT: Mods: Is this old news? Delete?
Was it? I missed that if it was.
Even if it was, this is the first I am hearing of it so I appreciate the post. Caris will be another on like Mitch in that "what might have been" catagory.
Fair enough. I think I had heard about the Jones fracture / Kevin Durant parallel over twitter, perhaps it never made it here or wasn't headlined in the same way.
BTW pretty clear this isn't old news to a lot of people, don't believe it merits deletion. Maybe I didn't know as much as I thought?
Don't listen to champswest.
Do beat yourself up. And then post it on Yotube. Make sure it's ten minutes long.
...if Stephen didn't have such a long history here of incivility, swearing like a longshoreman, and posting long rants about Freemasons.
This is news to me. I knew he was injured and not participating in the combine drills but the specific nature of his injury hadnt been publicly released as far as I know.
Maybe Steven's got some inside sources.
It wasn't posted here, at least not in its own thread...
I don't know why this would be the case as people have recovered from such injuries before and will again.
If you're saying it's because he's too skinny - Kevin Durant, Jamal Crawford, and many others have had very successful NBA careers.
I didn't read it last time it was posted, so +1 for you in the meantime before it (possibly) gets deleted.
How you missed it is a mystery.
I recall a discussion about Caris a while back, but I don't recall reading about the exact nature of the injury. Thanks, Erik.
Yep, the fifth metatarsal is a sumbitch. I broke mine my senior year in hs and was in a cast for 2 months because they treat those things so carefully. At that time the name Keith Byars was floating around--if you remember him his career basically ended because he kept re-breaking his fifth metatarsal. Something about less blood to that bone and so healing is really slow and sketchy. The relevant passage from wikipedia:
Byars was a preseason favorite for the 1985 Heisman, but fractured the bone in his right foot near the little toe in preseason practice. He missed the first five games of the 1985 season, and returned too early. He reinjured the broken bone in his second game back and missed the remainder of the regular season. He attempted to return for the Citrus Bowl game on December 28, but injured his foot again in the second Ohio State offensive series of the game. Many observers note that throughout the remainder of his football career Byars was never as dominant a player as he had been in 1984.
*shakes fist at fifth metatarsals for Caris*
Get well, pal.
Keith Byars was a Buckeye, so he is the worst example possible.
A Michigan Man will recover.
Boom. Scienced.
I only mentioned it because my post was about me, and that's who was in the news then. Can we get back to talking about me?
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Speaking medically 5th metacarpal/metatarsal fractures of the hand or the foot are usually long, surgically repaired nightmare recoveries. Our anatomy is such that we don't have great bloodflow around that area which can slow healing or lead to incomplete healing so risk of re-fracture is high. Definitely not an injury you mess around with. I hope Caris the best and hopefully he can recover enough to play a few years in the NBA. Poor damn Caris
I don't know about old news, but this article came out Thursday http://sports.yahoo.com/news/what-nba-prospect-caris-levert-has-in-common-with-kevin-durant-174445976.html
And I remember Ace and Stu Douglas discussing it on twitter.
Still, the UM Hoops article is new and I don't know if anything was posted here yet, so fwiw I say
Pretty awesome that Durant gave Levert a call. From the yahoo article:
“Stay the course,” LeVert said Durant told him, “because once this rehab is over, you’ll forget all about it.”
Along with the foot injury, LeVert and Durant have the same orthopedic surgeon in New York, Martin O’Malley, and have discussed the road to returning to full strength.
/No Politics!
I prefer to think of O'Malley as his Wire counterpart... Tommy Carcetti aka Littlefinger.
Michigan put Caris back on the court against Purdue with a Jones fracture? That seems bad.
Remember the people who were suggesting that Caris was voluntarily sitting out to save himself for the NBA? Idiots.
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Because a lesser competitor wouldn't have even tried to come back, his attempt to return, only to find he couldn't, undermines rockedinny's point how exactly? It actually supports it by showing how much Caris wanted to play.
I hope that Caris recovers fully. This underscores a couple things to me.
- I think Beilein was doing the right thing by being so cautious, and also so circumspect. There always was an undercurrent of grumbling that Caris should be playing. It is obvious that recovery is long, and reinjury isn't worth it.
- This also tells me that Michigan had some incredibly bad luck. You don't hear about Jones fractures (injuries to the 5th metatarsal bone) very often. It is a rare injury and one that can't be anticipated or expected or avoided. Stuff happens. But the reality is that Michigan's play would have been vastly different if McGary hadn't been screwed by the NCAA, and Caris by the injury.
If we had McGary another year, and LeVert had been able to play, the outcome of the last few seasons would have been vastly different. There's no point in going down the "if only" speculation trail. But still, you can see how badly Michigan was affected. In other words, I am in the "it isn't Beilein's bad coaching" and the "it isn't Beilein's bad recruiting" camp.
SRK, I agree completely. It was a bit disheartening to see so many people here insinuating that Caris was being selfish. I would hope those people think twice next time, but they won't.
There really weren't that many people calling him selfish. Maybe a handful of idiots.
I still contend that Beilein didn't handle the situation well because, in my opinion, his handling created the grumbling that Caris should be playing. I don't think anyone felt that Caris should be playing on a serious injury, such as a broken foot. People were grumbling because it seemed that he had a sprained ankle, or some other relatively minor injury. Beilein's secrecy and obsfucation were what created the backlash, not Caris getting hurt.
Why would you give your competition or the public detailed injury reports if not required to do so? Just the threat of Caris returning probably required game planning by the opposition
What did we really gain by that? He almost always said enough that it was pretty clear Caris wasn't playing in the next game. And for what? Making your star player look soft and selfish? I get hiding the nature of an injury for a kid who is going to actually be playing to protect him from opponents targeting the injury. But that wasn't the case here.
I agree. This mentality didn't work out well for Hoke either with his 'boo-boos' philosophy. In the end it was part of the hole that sunk him. Not that Beilein is in that situation, but if your player is legitimately out, then set the proper expectations for your fans. Dragging them week by week only intesifies their feelings around the situation. Remember, never turn a 1 day story into a 3 day story. Same philosophy.
That said, if there was legitimate possibility that LaVert could return, then he was in the right. I just don't see that being the case seeing the data that is now out.
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A Jones fracture is way easier to handle than a Jonas fracture. When that band broke up, I was devastated for weeks.
Glad for Caris he's not suffering from that.