After seriously injuring his cruciate ligaments a few weeks ago during a Playoff game with the Sixers, Danny Green said in his podcast that this injury would not end his career. He’s even planning a comeback for the next All-Star Break. At 34, there is no question for the three-time NBA champion to hang up the sneakers.
Never give up, always decide for yourself. It is with this kind of sentence in mind that Danny Green evoked in his podcast Inside The Green Room the end of his career. Crossing paths at 34 logically makes more than one professional player think about his future in the industry. As a reminder, the Sixers player found himself caught in a fall with Joel Embiid, the latter falling on his knee. As you can imagine, eating a kingpin weighing more than 100 kilos on the corner of the leg does not feel good. Ligaments that fart, and especially big questioning around the future of the injured. Will Dan ‘continue the NBA adventure or put an end to 13 basketball seasons in the most prestigious league in the world? For the person concerned, there is in any case no question of letting a big sore dictate things to him.
“I would like to decide for myself when to end my career rather than end up with a big injury. I’ll be back before the All-Star Break. I think I can be back in time to help my team compete in the Playoffs and prove to everyone that I can still play at a level that allows a team to win in the Playoffs. » – Danny Green
Inevitably, being on the sidelines for so long provokes reflection. We take stock of things past, the good times and the bad times…because putting in nearly a year of physical work to get back in shape is not within everyone’s reach psychologically. Make no mistake about it, if Danny had made the decision to close the shop, he would have bowed out with quite a track record. Arrived in the NBA with the Cavaliers in 2009 and passed through the G League box and then even through Europe, it was at the Spurs that Green finally imposed himself on everyone as an NBA-caliber player. Champion in 2014, the consecration is total for the guy who will even have his place in the five of Gregg Popovich following the replacement of Manu Ginobili as sixth man. Placed in Kawhi Leonard’s suitcase during the blockbuster trade with Toronto in 2018, he will once again be crowned king of the NBA in 2019. Left at the Lakers in 2020, it is at Mickey’s that he adorns his third finger with a ring … It begins to cause. Arrived at the Sixers after the episode of the Orlando Bubble, he is a real reinforcement for Jojo on the back line. Capable of lighting up at 3-points as well as driving effectively, it is therefore in the future that we speak of Danny Green, with the focus on February 2023, the date of his return.
Danny Green is a valiant. Going through difficult stages at the start of his career, he knows how expensive the place in the NBA is and it is therefore not after 13 years that he will let this dream slip away. The objective now is to work well with the physiotherapists by next February.
Source texte : Inside The Green Room
