Kevin Durant Sprains His MCL

and now all of a sudden, something's bad. Katie went to the ground, he gets up gingerly, he leaves the game. He does not return Today. The Nets announced that Katie is going to miss a minimum of one month, say minimum two weeks, but later Adrian Wargzanowski came out with another tweet said month isolated mcl sprain in his right knee. This is what happened last year as well. If you remember that kept Katie out six weeks. I mean, this is gonna be tough on average, and MCL sprain takes

six weeks from diagnosis to full healing. Of course, this is changing from case to case. Of course, if you've sprained your MCL before, they're gonna be a little bit more cautious, not fun.

one of the best shooting seasons I've ever seen. He leads the NBA in both jumpers attempted and made by a wide margin. But that's just the beginning. Among the NBA's fifty most active jump shooters this season, Durant has the second lowest shot quality. Via Second Spectrum, they estimate that an average shooter would produce an effective field goal percentage of just forty percent, which is awful on those

durance jumpers. But Kevin Durant's actual efficient field goal percentage is fifty eight point four, which is elite in some Kevin Durant is taking extremely difficult shots but still producing hyper efficient results, and his team is following suits. So even when he's being offended nearly perfectly, being draped by multiple guys, he's hitting tough, fade away mid range shots, he's shooting nearly twenty percent above what is expected. That's crazy,

that's literally that doesn't make any sense. And that's one of the reasons that the Nets are eight and two under Jaqvaon is in part because one he's obviously a better coach than Steve Nash, which we know, but also because Kevin Durant is leading the best offensive team in the league and they're following his lead. I don't know how it's gonna work without him. Very fascinated to see how the Nets respond. I need to know. Is Kyrie gonna just put up fifty now? Are they going to?

Are other teams going to double and triple team Kyrie? Who's gonna step up offensively? Are we gonna get bucket bucket after bucket from TJ? Warren? The bubble God. This is gonna absolutely test Shock Vaun's coaching chops. It's gonna put a ton of pressure on Kyrie. The Warriors without Steph for six and five pretty much, it's better than I expected five hundred. I thought they would be like

three and seven. The Nets without KD. They have the Celtics, the Thunder, the Spurs, the Suns, the Jazz and Golden State the next two weeks. It's a bummer. It's a bumber if you're a Nets fan. But now you're gonna get to see what this team is really made of without KD. Maybe some more Ben Simmons minutes. Other than Miles Turner, is anyone more tired of being rumored to be traded than John Collins? John Collins has been in trade rumors since before I was born. Really like he's been,

he's been. It's just the thing. It's death taxes and John Collins on the trade blog because John Collins had to be asked about it again and he's just like so sick of it. You can just tell I'm over this. He goes off on this reporter when they're like, hey, you're still on the trade. This team still wants to get rid of you. What are your thoughts about being traded again? There's just nobody in the NBA who doesn't know that John Collins would rather be anywhere than on

the court watching Trey Young. Like we know that Trey Hug's not a fun player. We all know that they fucked up when they traded Luca for nothing. This is a team that absolutely fumbled the bag worse than Dennis Shruder. But you know, we have Collins who doesn't like Trey. He was the first to call out Trey back three years ago. There was articles written about it, but damn, here we go. So Collins finally has had enough. Right they ask him about his status. Does he actually know

his dad? We'd no one knows his status. I don't even think the Atlanta Hawks know his stady. So he decided to just say, you know what, I'm taking off the kid gloves. I'm gonna say what I really think, he says. I could say, hey, I want to do this, I want to do that, and they can just do whatever they feel. It's fair. You saw it with Kevin Durant last summer. Right, he's begging for a trade, and like, nah,

not saying that, I'm Kevin Durant. But that's just the mentality of Yeah, you can say whatever you want to go wherever, you can make a public see, you can do whatever. It does not matter. That's pretty much the crux of the issue. Right, you can desire a trade. Teams can do whatever they want with you. They can decide where you go, what it takes. They can hold you hostage. That's the nature of being in a contract, right And right up until he resigned, Travis Schlank was

bound in the termines to keep Collins in Atlanta. Who knows why Collins does not want to be there. Schlank does not want him there, and Collins opined, how hard it's been playing for three different coaches with three different systems in Atlanta. Obviously, so much of what happens with his destination, what happens with the teams outside of his control. But then the reporter, of course, probably the same one that pressed trade young uh, pressed him about a possible

trade again, and he finally had enough. He was, oh God, it's best I don't give a damn he says, I don't give a damn. I honestly, you know what I mean. I play basketball every day. You know what I mean. I play basketball. Come in and I play basketball, and whatever happens happens. Because I don't control that side. I don't have any control over the decisions that get made. Where I am, where I play, I don't have any control over that. Is it safe to say John Collins

is sick of this bullshit? Is it safe to say John Collins would like to be anywhere but to be asked about, Hey, you're on the trade block again. One thing is for certain, like the Hawks are not going to allow Trey Young to go. And it is very hard to see where John Collins and Trey Young fit on a team that is centered on a guy who really his first, second, and third option is to score. His fourth option is to lob the ball up, really to keep the defense honest for option one, two and three,

that's really it. You're only getting lobs to help Tray Young, that's it. And you're not getting play calls for you at all. So how bad our thing in Atlanta? Well, according to Shams, Nate McMillan strongly considered resigning after the whole Trey Young incident that we covered a couple weeks back. Now, Nate insists that that was not true. He says, these are allies, but come on, we know what Shams does. Shams is getting multiple sources. He is not peddling in rumors.

There is fire behind the smoke, so do not hold it against John Collins. Think about how toxic things are there. I heard from somebody within NBA circles that reached out to me. Hey, they said, players don't like playing with Trey, Coaches don't like Trey. There's nothing they can do. He's the franchise, that's it and a story. So yeah, retirement looks a lot better than dealing with the freaking chucker

every day who's gotten attitude issue? And I like Trey Young ish, But do you want to bet John Collins's pro Nate on this little beef? I would bet. I would bet so bottom line very safe to say, there's a lot of teams that would like Choun Collins on their rosterin down. But let's be honest, why why is her point? He's why why is this points down?