Kevon Looney, a key part of the Warriors winning team, is likely to be out for the rest of the NBA Finals after getting hurt in Game 2 and sustaining what an MRI and CT scan revealed was a “non-displaced first costal cartilage fracture.”
Huh?
We said the same thing.
Here’s a quick primer on the condition from Dr. Faisal M. Mirza, an orthopedic surgeon from Los Gatos.
Q: Can you talk about this sort of fracture?
A: It’s in the first rib where the ribcage meets the sternum, or breastplate, in the middle of the chest.