I just need someone from the training staff to explain how he could miss the whole season over this. At this point any semi plausible explanation will do.
Typical Lakers luck lately. IDK..I'm sure something lengthy will be written on this situation by someone during the off-season. It should be an interesting read.
he had to be broken before he came, Mia fans on realgm even stated that hes injury prone, for a player to get this jacked up from practice/scrimmage, whoever our Drs were that signed off on his physical F'd up...probably another reason why he didnt get many big offers
i posted his injury history earlier in the thread; there weren't obvious signs that he was injury prone. i don't know why people can't handle luck as an explanation for a lot of things in life. because it is. now, i am also interested in just hearing both nunn's and the medical staff's accounting of the situation, simply because this is the oddest injury story i can remember (though aaron baynes's may be even weirder on second thought). but i'm not angry at nunn about it, nor do i think he, the lakers, or miami could or should have expected that he'd miss a year due to injury.
yeah, i didn't think so. and i honestly can't tell if a lot of the comments in this thread are anger or mock anger or just venting. it just feels like on occasion people are ascribing sinister motives to nunn or miami or suggesting the lakers were stupid to sign him and should have known. i just don't think any of that has a shred of support.
Nunn played every regular season game in the 2019-2020 season and played 75% of the Heat's games last year. There is zero evidence that he was broken before he came to LA. As @abeer3 said, all signs point to bad luck.
Good to see glass half empty explanations AGAIN, Khmrp, against all other possibilities. Had to be our staff f***ed up with “damaged goods” Nunn. In spite of the games played previous seasons and the role LUCK plays every year with every team regarding injuries.
I don't think we'll get anything of real clarity. We have the most cryptic, least informative medical staff in the league. And we've been through a few different staffs over recent years and the flow of information has remained funky, so it's clearly a consistent directive from up top.
well if he's good to go for next year - he owes us. Would be good to get him to opt into that deal so that we can a) use him as a trade piece or b) have a useful rotation player on a cheap deal and have him be our Monk insurance should he leave for a bigger deal There's no benefit to him opting out - we are capped out so it doesn't even open up room to get someone else.
the only opt-out scenario that makes sense for us is if he opts out and takes a vet min next year or something (we'd still retain his early bird and thus be able to pay him the same new contract if things worked out). but he wouldn't do that. and honestly, if he's hurt again, i'd rather have the 5 million expiring to throw into trades.
If they knew he had a serious injury I wonder if they could've gotten an injured player exception out of this. But then again I don't know if Jeanie wanted to spend anymore...
Man. That's gotta be rough on Nunn. I guess he's gotta hope more time without the pressure of playing will somehow help.
at least he got 10 million in the bank before it happened. imagine this happens his second year instead of his third.
