Put yourself in Michael Porter Jr.’s NBA-sized Pumas.
It’s been nearly 16 months since you’ve played a competitive basketball game. It’s been almost exactly a year since your second back surgery. Your Summer League teammate says you remind him of a video game player after going up against you in training camp. Your coach says you have the chance to be special.
Forty eight hours before you finally get to respond to the growing hype, finally with your play and not your words, you drive along the baseline during a scrimmage, take contact in the air and come down awkwardly with a knee sprain.