Gordon Hayward Breaks Ankle Minutes Into Season Opener

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  1. ThizGuy83

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    Take a lot of luck for his injury to not have any ligament or vessel damage. If it truly is a clean fracture. Then he could possibly be back late in season. But he definitely won' be preinjury status. That won' be till next season
     
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    They did.

    He ran through sets without a ball, and started watching film of his workouts. “I wanted to see: Am I doing it right every single time?” Hayward said. “I think there is a still a big leap for me, and I want to get that out of myself. I couldn’t do the same stuff I’ve been doing every summer. I wanted to be uncomfortable.”



    He quietly reached out to Kobe Bryant to see if the retired superstar might tutor him on the art of the midrange. He ended up spending a week with Bryant in Newport Beach. “He’s one of the best to ever do it,” Hayward said, “and it was one of my best weeks ever.”



    It paid off. Hayward is having a career season. He’s a legit All-Star candidate who does everything well. He powers through contact, and shoots his mid-rangers with a little less lean. His core is so solid, he widened his stance at the foul line to improve his balance; Hayward is shooting a career-best 89 percent from the stripe.


    Read more at http://www.slamonline.com/nba/kobe-bryant-tutored-gordon-hayward-midrange-game/#bmOotuiVjYO1x4Av.99
     
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    BI was too busy with other stuff?
     
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    The progression of my emotions when seeing that picture...

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    :Magic Shaking Head No:
     
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    Absolutely perfect .gif use LOL
     
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    So wrong on so many levels but trying hard to stifle a giggle...
     
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    The internet is wrong for this man, but dammit I laughed.
     
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    Not gonna lie. I immediately sent it to every basketball fan in my company.
     
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    Kobe mentality.
     
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    Wow. Strengthening his passing one of first things he comes up with creatively he can do while he can't use his legs. Left arm coming up.
     
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    C bag green

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    Cleveland still gets by C Bags with Hayward back? LeBron be an old man after all dat work and another Finals?

    Good for Hayward after that gruesome injury.
     
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