The amount of time that elapsed between Trail Blazers power forward/center Zach Collins dislocating his left shoulder while fighting for a rebound in the third game of the season and the team’s health and performance staff popping said shoulder back into place could be measured in minutes. A relatively simple procedure, Collins’ left glenohumeral joint, known to the layperson as the “ball” of the shoulder, was placed back into the glenoid, aka the “socket,” which for many of the afflicted, would be the end of a somewhat unpleasant affair.
“When it happened and then they put it back into place, I was like ‘Is that it?