If Austin Etherington has complained about hard luck in his basketball career, no one has heard him say so publicly.
He has a condition called osteochondritis, in which the cartilage or bone in a joint is inflamed. That cost him his seventh-grade season and half of his sophomore season at Hamilton Heights High School. He fractured a patella while at Indiana University and lost an entire summer to a foot injury after announcing his transfer to Butler.
He has long been a role player. We don’t know what will happen for the rest of February and into March.