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“I heard it and felt it and knew it wasn’t just (a) casual rolled ankle,” Hayward said. “It was swollen by the time I was leaving the court, so I knew that it was definitely worse than normal.”

Hayward, wearing a boot and wielding familiar crutches, was sent off to an MRI machine on the Disney World campus, where imaging confirmed what everyone feared: He had suffered a Grade 3 sprain and would miss a significant amount of time.