Less than two minutes into the Warriors’ Feb. 28 loss to the Wizards, when Zaza Pachulia crashed into him, Kevin Durant heard a crack.
“It was something that I never felt before, I never heard before,” Durant recalled during a podcast interview with Bill Simmons posted Friday morning.
Durant’s worst fears were confirmed the next day when doctors told him he had fractured his left tibia. For the first time since that night in Washington a month ago, the eight-time NBA All-Star detailed to Simmons the aftermath of that initial diagnosis.
“The first diagnosis we got was that I broke my leg — fractured my tibia.