One of the most devastating injuries in sports is a torn Achilles tendon not just because of the amount of time it takes to fully recover (usually a year), but also because athletes rarely, if ever, come back the same. So naturally, when Kevin Durant went down with that exact injury during Game 5 of the Finals, one Spurs player in particular felt the pain right along with him. As Rudy Gay told The Undefeated:
“You just know when you see it. It’s just like a Fireball shot running through your body.