Anthony Davis Discussion: Thanks For The Ring AD!!!

To me all signs point to soft tissue injury. The 2nd and 3rd opinions, the hush around this thing. And being in a harder-to-deal-with area than the ankle, the 2nd and 3rd opinions may be about the extent of the injury. No boot, no crutches sort of takes away a lot of the worry for me though.

 

I agree: The thing is MRI's are great for soft tissue injuries while CT is great for bones but not soft tissue.
I guess there may have been non-specific swelling on the MRI is my guess without clear ligament/tendon damage. May need a repeat MRI 1-2 weeks after the injury after the initial swelling goes down to see if they are missing something small perhaps?

Would be shocked if there is a fracture or something like that in the foot as that would be picked up by the scans

 

I know in pediatric cases they assume a small fracture on xrays if there is swelling in the typical places associated with small hard to diagnose fractures but with a guy like AD I would suspect they would do a high-resolution CT rather than just a plain X-ray so I'm sticking with my no fracture guess

 

I’m confused about why the report says “or if surgery would be required”.

If they’re not seeing specific damage to a bone or ligament in the imaging, why would surgery even be a consideration? Like how do you plan a surgery without knowing what you’re going under the knife to repair?

 

If you look how the injury happened - basically kicking and hitting a wall with the outside of the foot - my guess like a lot of people on Twitter is that it's a question of avulsion fracture of the peroneus muscles (the part of the bone where the muscle ligament attaches on to is ripped off). Those muscles evert your foot: in these cases the muscle and the bone it's attached to need to be surgically fixed back in place. My guess is the problem is that they can't seem to confirm it with imaging they've done on his foot so they're trying to figure out if it's something less severe like ligament strain/partial tear

 

Well that certainly clears things up…

 

We are so screwed this year and for the immediate future.

 

Woj with a glimmer of hope!

 

Yep as predicted - they can't find anything on the scan despite the initial physical exam being concerning

 

I don’t think we know enough about the injury to definitively act like there would be a risk of further injury if he came back in a few weeks.

If in 10 days AD isn’t feeling pain or any limitations, and the imaging that already seems to have shown only non-specific damage comes back looking clean, why exactly would we hold him out longer or put him under the knife if there is no medical justification for it?

Sorry but that seems like a contrarian take to attack the FO no matter what

 

Cancel the season, sell the team, Lebron should go ahead and retire.

 

This is vintage street clothes, when they keep the injury like it's a riddle, he won't be back soon