Just as the sun rose on the start of the 2024-25 season, many players that were to fill key roles on this team this year suffered unfortunate injury setbacks.
Merely a single game into the season, ‘hope springs anew’ gave way to ‘ugh, here we go again’ as the all-too-familiar health issues have, well, sprung up once again. The past month has seemed all too reminiscent of the past four seasons that preceded this one.
To recap, at a Saturday practice before the season opener against the Brooklyn Nets, projected backup point guard Kobe Bufkin suffered a right shoulder subluxation (a partial dislocation of a bone from a joint in layman’s terms).