Monday evening, midway through the second overtime of a double-overtime game, Jusuf Nurkic of the Portland Trail Blazers went up for a shot and landed awkwardly and injured his left leg. This gruesome injury (don’t watch it if you haven’t seen it already), brought back sickening reminders of Gordon Hayward’s injury on opening night of the 2017-18 season. Following the game, Portland announced that Nurkic suffered compound fractures of his left tibia and fibula. The nature of the injury will obviously cost Nurkic the remainder of the 2018-19 season.
Gordon Hayward reaches out to Jusuf Nurkic
