re: Anybody else get the feeling that it’s going to be an “out of left field” type of deal?

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Klay has an ACL tear. Barring setbacks, athletes come back from that in 6 months or less all the time these days. Often better than they were before.

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I don't want to assume, but it sounds like you don't know much about the history of ACL injuries. It wasn't but 20-25 years ago when an ACL injury meant your career was effectively over. The surgery is far more successful than it used to be, but you still see athletes who are never the same. To say, it's no big deal and players are more often better than they were before is simply not true.

Secondarily, a timeline of 6 months is ludacris. Again, the fastest ACL recovery for an athlete i've ever heard of is AP and it took 260 days.

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KD may never be the same again which is the huge shift in offseason expectations

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I find it interesting that you take just different takes on two injuries that used to be guaranteed "career enders" and now are manageable due to surgery. Now, to be sure, Durant won't have the same explosiveness, but he won't need it. So long as KD in 7 ft tall with an 8ft wingspan and a knockdown 3p pt shot; he will be a star