The NBA Playoffs are just a few days underway but already injuries are threatening to derail them. Stars like Giannis Antetokounmpo, Ja Morant, Domantas Sabonis, and Tyler Herro have all suffered injuries of various degrees and their teams are being forced to adjust and adapt on the fly.
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Everyone hates injuries, even when they don’t impact the team you root for. They make the on court product worse and they derail conversations about which team actually “deserves” to win.
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Just last year Celtics fans had to hear endless excuses about how the Bucks series could have been very different if they had a healthy Kris Middleton.