Caris LeVert has surgery to repair stress fracture in foot, will miss 8-10 weeks
Reported by Baumgardner, among others. This is obviously a setback with regard to LeVert's summer workout plans, but he should be recovered in time for the trip to Italy:
“Caris underwent surgery today for a stress fracture of his foot at the University of Michigan hospital," Beilein said in a statement. "He is doing well and we expect him to make a full recovery in about 8 to 10 weeks. We are confident he will participate in our late summer training and play in our August trip to Europe.”
According to a Freep article, it's not known whether he'll be able participate in the Kevin Durant camp for wings (to which he had received an invite), which is usually held in July.
ARGH!!
Et tu, 2014?????????!
Better now than later but there goes the summer of weight training and working on game.
Ever heard of swimming pools?
Dafuq is a swimming pool.
Is that like a pond?
This probably won't be that big of a deal. If he's back in action by July, he's still got five months to improve himself before the season starts.
Possibly. It could also be shoes. Shoe width and arch support can be critical, especially if you have big feet.
Well, if something like this was going to happen to anyone on the basketball team, this is perhaps good timing if you want to call it that, but it still sucks for LeVert and the team all the same. Best wishes to Caris on a speedy and full recovery and hopefully he is good to go for the European tour in August as predicted.
Have we ever had a stretch where so many top players in the 2 sports have something hit them? Mitch, Caris, JMFR - best LB, Blake - best CB, Darboh (I know he hasnt done anything but by all accounts had won a starting WR job), Butt - best TE, Magnuson - best OL? etc. I get injuries happen but it seems like ours happen much more prominently to our very top players.
Did someone not make the correct sacrifice to a volcano at some point 4 years ago?
They threw a chicken in when they were supposed to hurl a goat. Very bad juju.
Kentucky fried puppy?
Half-full analysis: Now he can work on bulking up his upper body for the next 8-10 weeks
Caris in 3 months?:
This just means Caris is going to be fresh when the season starts.
Get well, get back.
I've seen Brian himself link to Mark Snyder articles recently. It's still your choice whether to click on it or not.
This is good.
Couldnt just be a got Malzone kinda day huh ? Had to throw in this bullshit, Get well Caris
How does Caris get a stress fracture in his foot? Doesn't he have to weigh something for that to happen?
But inside sources have it that Caris put on some 27 pounds during the past summer conditioning. Maybe Stauskas worked out with him? I don't know.
The incoming freshmen will be on the Italy trip, right?
Yes, they will be.
This is going to hurt his weight training...also, this is an important development period for basketball players. Getting work in over the summer is HUGE for improvement and development.
Obviously LeVert was pretty damn good, but he would've been able to attend summer camps with other potential all-american players and learn things the way Burke, THJ, GRIII and Stauskas did the summer before they left us.
Also good to build chemistry with the new team and establish a new role.
Not the end of the world, but this hurts.
caris about the last guy on the team that i worry about conditioning. should be a non-issue for his weight training. lets just hope he doesn't miss much true practice time.
some just think it isn't the end of the world and that people can actually train while having a fractured foot. Put me down in that camp as well. Everything doesn't have to be a catastrophe. If you need something to be grateful for be happy this didn't happen at the beginning of the B1G season. He'll be fine and ready to play by the time the season starts.
Also, 8-10 weeks puts him back at either the second or fourth week of July. This isn't the end of the world guys, calm down.
Which is why MAAR was necessary. There is literally no other 2 on the roster right now unless you throw Irvin down from 3 to 2. I you want to keep Irvin mostly at the 3, MAAR would be getting 25 minutes a game (maybe some Dawkins too) at 2.
Just like the 5... those are two positions we cannot suffer any serious injury next year since dropoff is dramatic.
but that's a small backcourt with Spike.
spends a summer in Camp Sanderson and grows 7 inches. Or is that not how that works?
in a pinch i could see walton and spike on the court together against smaller backcourts.
/s
Fun... or not so fun fact. I saw Caris today being wheeled into the Campus Inn in a wheelchair with a cast on his foot. I was 100% sure it was him, so I immediately went on here to see if anything had been posted yet about it and it hadn’t. I wanted to post yet so I thought about posting or tweeting out something about it but knew better than to post speculative bullshit until the news broke. Sure enough though...
/cool story bro