Jaden Ivey may very well have an opportunity to return this season despite the terrible leg damage that he simply suffered.
The Detroit Pistons announced on Thursday that their former top-five decide underwent profitable surgical procedure earlier within the day to restore a damaged fibula in his left leg. Ivey is now set to be re-evaluated in 4 weeks.
Omari Sankofa II of the Detroit Free Press also shared extra encouraging details about Ivey. Sankofa notes that the Pistons didn’t imagine that was any ligament or tendon harm to Ivey’s leg and provides that the four-week timetable helps the proof that Ivey had a clear break, a best-case state of affairs for him underneath the circumstances.
The 22-year-old guard Ivey suffered the damage throughout Wednesday’s sport in opposition to the Orlando Magic when Orlando’s Cole Anthony dove into his leg while going for a loose ball. Ivey needed to be taken off the courtroom in a stretcher, inflicting each groups to be visibly shaken.
After struggling to seek out his footing so far of his profession, Ivey had been having fun with a breakout season with 17.1 factors, 4.1 rebounds and 4.0 assists per sport on 46/41/73 capturing splits.
Whereas the four-week timetable isn’t meant to recommend that Ivey might be again in motion inside that body, it does point out a risk that he could possibly be again earlier than the season ends in three-and-a-half months (with Detroit presently in play-in place at 15-18).
