With just 15 games left in the NBA regular season, Portland Trail Blazers wing Matisse Thybulle spoke with media Friday afternoon at the team’s practice facility in Tualatin. The interview marked Thybulle’s first media availability since Trail Blazers Media Day, all the way back in September.
“Being a basketball player again is great,” Thybulle said. “It’s been tough to be a basketball player that can’t play basketball.”
It has been a season of frustration, rehabilitation and patience for the 28-year-old defensive specialist. Prior to the start of the season in mid-October, Thybulle underwent a procedure to clean up inflammation in his right knee that was expected to keep him out 3-4 weeks.