Zach Edey's Repeated Ankle Injuries Cause Concern!
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00:00That's unfortunate that he just keeps, he keeps coming up with these ankle injuries
00:06here the last two weeks during the summer league.
00:08Yeah, well, what's weird for me is, is that he really never, let's face facts, got injured
00:15at Purdue.
00:16He played every game and he played 40 minutes a game and he never came out of any NCAA tournament
00:22games.
00:23Uh, the guy was like an iron horse for the Boilermakers and here he is in summer league.
00:28He's gone down at least twice and I'm concerned because, you know, the theory around here
00:35is we don't like to talk about knees, ankles, or Achilles.
00:39I just don't like those topics, especially being a basketball player myself, right?
00:47Like so a month ago I hurt my knee, I hyperextended it, I sprained it, I thought I tore my meniscus,
00:55I felt a pop, a bad one.
00:58I landed and I literally went through a, like a bad five day stretch of like compression
01:05on it and, and a massage on it and all kinds of stuff on it.
01:09And I know that, I'm just saying from my experience, I'm one, I'm one away from being finished.
01:14I mean, I'm 59 years old here in a couple of weeks.
01:16You're going to get older in a couple of weeks and I can't afford a knee injury or a ankle
01:22or an Achilles.
01:23I'd be done.
01:24If I had an ACL and was out a year, I would never come back and play.
01:29My other buddy's my age and he came back after an ACL after a year and he's playing again.
01:34And I don't think I want to do that, to be honest with you, because it's, well, I mean,
01:39what's next?
01:40You're going to tear the other one?
01:41It takes a year.
01:42And if it's a meniscus, it's like, you know, eight weeks at least of getting it scoped.
01:48So I'm worried about ED.
01:50Once you roll it once, the ankle keeps rolling.
01:54It comes back to haunt you.
01:55It's like the never ending injury.
01:57I guarantee you, I don't believe for one minute mess, he's playing in two games down in Miami.
02:03His ankle was the size of a football at that Copa final.
02:07And all I know is ankles don't heal in two days.
02:11They don't heal in two games.
02:12And I think he's going to have problems with that ankle this year.
02:15And I think that'll bum me out.
02:18Well, I think the good thing is, is that hopefully, you know, you're still two and a half months
02:23away from serious training camp.
02:26Right.
02:27And as much as we talk about these guys all a lot during the off season, you know, when
02:31you've had this now the past two and a half weeks, if I was them, I would tell Edie, uh,
02:36you know, no ball for a month, six weeks, they stopped playing for a month or two because
02:42they play for eight, they play for eight, nine months a year.