As soon as the Minnesota Timberwolves selected UCLA shooting guard Jaylen Clark with the 53rd overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, the question formed in our mind. Now what? Clark was the right choice for the Timberwolves draft, a Round 1 player whose Achilles Tendon injury created a medical flag that warned off everyone.
Despite all of the advances in medical technology, the challenge for any professional athlete who suffers an Achilles Tender rupture is not the healing process. Rather, it is the prolonged re-training of an athlete who must re-learn how to trust that ankle once more.