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Detroit Pistons guard Jaden Ivey suffered such a grotesque leg damage on Wednesday, January 1 that his teammates made positive to cover it from the followers in attendance.
Within the fourth quarter of the Pistons sport towards the Orlando Magic at Detroit’s Little Caesars Enviornment on Wednesday, the left leg of Ivey, 22, bought trapped beneath the Magic’s Cole Anthony whereas each gamers had been chasing a free ball.
Ivey was instantly in absolute anguish on the ground as he was attended to by the Pistons’ medical employees. Finally, one in every of Ivey’s teammates grabbed a towel from the bench to cowl up his leg and the remainder of the group made a circle round him.
A stretcher was used to move Ivey off the court docket as the world watched on with hushed silence. Ivey’s teammate, Ausar Thompson, was seen wiping tears away.
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Sources instructed ESPN on Thursday, January 2 that Ivey had suffered a damaged fibula in his left leg and would doubtless miss the rest of the season.
“It’s robust. It’s robust on all of us,” Pistons head coach J.B. Bickerstaff stated after the sport. “No higher teammate, particular person than J.I. Nobody who cares extra about this factor than him. It’s robust to see.”
Bickerstaff, 45, added, “On the coronary heart of this group, and what we’ve tried to evangelise all yr since we’ve been right here is togetherness. If one man goes down, you don’t wish to let that man down, so all people else has to step up. Once more, it’s the feelings, it’s the human side of it, however I believed our guys did a extremely good job of simply sticking collectively and getting it accomplished.”
Pistons star Cade Cunningham stated Ivey’s damage was “robust on the entire group.”
“To see him hurting like that’s robust on us,” Cunningham, 23, instructed reporters. “He’s constructed for it, he’s going to shake again realizing him. He’s going to work his tail off and he’s going to be higher than ever when he will get again. It’s laborious to see that, for positive.”
After the damage occurred, Cunningham defined he gathered the group for “a prayer.”
“Simply wished to gather ourselves and discuss it and ensure all people was on the identical web page about what we needed to do from that time on,” Cunningham stated.
Ivey, who was chosen by the Pistons with the fifth general decide within the 2022 NBA Draft, had been averaging 17.6 factors, 4.1 rebounds and 4.0 assists per sport.
The Pistons return to motion on Friday, January 3 towards the Charlotte Hornets.
