Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic went down with a sickening left-leg fracture Monday night in Portland’s double-overtime victory over the Brooklyn Nets. I should be writing about the thrilling win, the Blazers clinching the playoffs, and above all Blazer’s Edge sending over 2000 kids to see the game on our annual Blazer’s Edge Night. Instead, we have to reflect on Nurkic’s season-ending injury.
In case you ever doubted it, the basketball gods are assholes.
I’ll repeat something here that I tweeted during the game. When something like this happens, the game outcome doesn’t matter.