Anthony Davis had just revitalized the Lakers 

I honestly think he gets hurt cause he doesnt care about his legs and ankle. I remember watching a video on ankle strengthening in which it was revealed by the creator of the video that most athletes , especially hard wood and indoor sports playing athletes like NBA athletes, eventually suffer an ankle injury. However the person said that most of these athletes never get injured again AND recover once they start training and strengthening their ankles. Here is the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mr0YhNAc4a8.html When Curry was facing ankle injury after ankle injury his personal trainer in 2015 told him to strengthen his hips cause the musculature in his ankles showed that he was as strong as he could possibly be in his ankles. His personal trainer wanted some of the load to go over to Curry's hips and from where Curry is now....I think we can agree that it really worked, right? I think AD is uninformed of this and chooses to continue to remain uninformed.

FUCK YOU FEELINGS, HE'S STILL GETTING PAID!!

@@injusticeanywherethreatens265I did not know that but that is interesting. People have talked about the work he puts in on his body. It makes you wonder.

@@injusticeanywherethreatens265 actually it's curry's ankle braces that saved him. It was found that curry's neurovascular connections where fewer in his ankles which meant his brain wasn't fully capable of sensing his ankle in space and he was able to roll over it easily, even if he strengthened it. Foot Doctor Zach went over it in a recent video. Perhaps AD has a similar problem and his mass compounds the issue.

@@injusticeanywherethreatens265 if that’s true then it’s on his trainers for being incompetent, not him lol, his job is to play and put in the effort and trainers should be guiding him

he'll never be a what if

Still never understood that debate

He won a ring that's all that matters atp

@@owethunala2632 Exactly I mean Giannis best teammate ever is Middleton, I'm pretty sure that Giannis with prime Boogie or late prime LBJ (2020 & 2021) would win even more than him being the only superstar in Milwaukee, him being every year the most double or triple team player ( with Curry) because the opponents feels confident in letting Khris and Jrue alone. But I guess these ppl never thought of that. Also AD can't create for no one outside of himself, which a big part of Bucks offense

@@paquinraino8180 prime boogie got injured , they were gonna win it that year

John Wall did

Different sport but Mike Soroka, a star pitcher for the Braves, tore his Achilles and then re-tore it during rehab from the original injury

klay did

Russ did 😂

Klay: hold my beer.

-- props to WB for wiling to come off the bench. Many ppl said he needed to last season, but Ham earns the credit for convincing him.

@@jlui21 lol russ is playing worse off the bench, but its good since less minutes = less dogshit russ minutes. but again, hes still bad, even worse off the bench.

Ham was supposed to play through AD at the start. That's what he promised.

Props to still stinking

He does look like he's a lot more intentional about coming down in general.

AD maybe, not sure how much effort he takes to prevent these things from happening though. Kawhi is just a bitch.

This. Sigh

Ye man it really makes me think what if but I think for ad he still has time as for Kawhi who is a bit older it gonna be harder

@@DRYZZ-_- Kawhi at least always seems to be able to jump right back in to his usual self after taking time off. AD always loses his edge.

@@richmahogany1710 Kawhi is a more polished/ finished product, he doesn't keep his edge anymore than AD. Everyone recovers and deals with injury differently

whuat first?!?!?

He should basically be playing like Karl Malone. But instead, he posts up and looks for the pass, after which he turns and fades or drives. He puts himself into danger too much.

Actually Bucks coaching staff still didn't figure it out with Giannis , so i guess this not that obvious

And he has the perfect partner for that in LeBron. Heck, that's basically the reason why they won the 2020 bubble championship. LeBron led the league in assist that season, and it's primarily because of AD picking up baskets in the rim.

Lebron did. The idea of him and AD doing PnRs on paper was already one of those guaranteed bucket schemes like screening for Steph as he runs around off-ball.

@@lordpaulphilippfernandez9904 in 2020 they basically never run pick and roll with LeBron. AD's jumper was ridiculously effective, so they didn't play any pick and roll basically. It was a lot of "your turn, my turn", and a big chuck of LeBron's assist came to other players or in transition, where Davis would just leak immediately without fighting for rebounds (they had plenty of size to do it), get the ball on a very long pass from LeBron and just dunk it on top of a smaller defender with zero or one dribble before any big man could catch up to put up any resistance at the rim. Rondo played al lof of pick and roll with AD in the bubble, but it was completely a different scenario, starting way outside the paint, with Rondo somehow hitting 45% of his jumpshots and working like your regular pull up threat. Now both LeBron and AD are functionally big forwards, going both close to the basket and using angles and sheer strength and size to gain an advantage, old style basketball at its best. And Westbrook is basically doing the exact same: getting a head of steam instead of relying on sheer size and strength, using AD and then attacking a closeout or throwing it up for AD depending on what the big man does.

He's already proven himself by winning a championship and has had previous dominant seasons in his first stint with LA and the Pelicans. What do you mean what if?

@@g00gleh00 What could he have accomplished if he was more healthy? That "What if".

I can see where you are getting at. But his amazing blend of guard like footwork for a big frame had its drawbacks from the very start. Its more like 'can a team take advantage of his talents and put him in a situation to play at the highest level'? Because you get enough guys who have that elite talent like his but are never in a situation where they are playing with an equally elite playmaker/scorer to help exploit the one consistent core strength of their game. For AD it was his near automatic lob game off well placed screens.

@@shorewall Nah. He already has a ton of accolades, is a top 75 all time player, and a ring. He's also relatively young so a "What If" doesn't really apply. He's far from a bust, he's one of the greatest PFs all of time. More like what ELSE can he accomplish.

Embiid is injured all the time as well ...

CHECK THE STATS!! How often he play 75, let alone 82???

Yeah we do.

@@phillipg1331 well talk louder Clippers have not done shit but I know if they'd won "the bubble ring" y'all would be spamming that shit

People talks about Kawhi's injury history all the time. What are you talking about?

Wade's injury luck has been up and down but he makes the most of it come playoff time. Bosh is relatively healthy up until that blood clot condition of his just basically put him on retirement. ADs unique body type along with his biomechanics already made him ultra prone to injury. Remember he entered the league with that recurring shoulder issue. Then as he is playing in his prime years, he's had other unique injuries to him like leg/ankle injuries along with big man ailments like foot injuries nipping at him. He's a decade in to his NBA career but considering what he has accomplished, that is a helluva feat in of itself.

The clippers don’t have potential and the sun will consume the earth before they win a championship

None of his injuries are from falling tf are you talking about. Ntm falling isn’t even how you get injuries in basketball😂 Their playing basketball not parkour.

A possession-by-possession video analysis of Embiid's season reveals that he has fallen 244 times since the start of the 2018-19 campaign, which comes out to 3.3 times per game or roughly one fall for every 10 minutes the Sixers center spends on the court. How does that falling down stack up? Although no falls-per-36-minutes metric exists on a league-wide scale, we studied five games of video on five other players known for regularly denting the floor: Ersan Ilyasova, who led the NBA this season in drawing charges; Blake Griffin, second in charges; Jusuf Nurkic, who, like Griffin, gets hit constantly; Russell Westbrook, perhaps the sport's most aggressive player; and James Harden, the reigning MVP who drives to the basket -- and, well, flops -- more than anyone. The takeaway: Embiid indeed belongs on the NBA's Mount Rushmore of Frequent Fallers. He falls more often, on a per-minute basis, than Griffin (every 14 minutes), Nurkic (every 13 minutes) and Westbrook (every 12 minutes) and at roughly the same rate as Ilyasova (every nine minutes) and remains upright a bit more frequently than Harden (every eight minutes). But among true big men -- those with farther to fall and bigger bones to bust -- Embiid stands alone in his inability to remain standing.

@@Foggycallabasashillshelicopter I'm literally saying the opposite lol. This last AD's injury is weird but before that he got injured at least a couple of times trying to land on his feet and awkwardly rolling his ankle. Maybe if learned how to fall instead it would save him from at least some of these cases.

Or maybe learn the best way to land. IIRC, LeBron has his own way of landing which allowed him to avoid major injuries in his 20-year career.

Are you kidding? Embiid is injury prone as well, lol it's like comparing Penny with T-Mac, Penny should learn with Tracy on how to avoid injuries

M/oron

Irrelevant

As a rockets fan, we struggled with Yao’s feet for a good stretch there

That's Kawhi

@@blue-phoenix115 Aint just Kawhi my guy

@@Tylercm262 Kawhi + AD = The Hurt Bros

That’s the problem he keeps breaking

@@showtimej2582 this comment wins

@@linkonedgell894 😂😂😂

They won no championship 3 yrs ago

Same lol

"FLUKE INJURY" I laughed.

@@darrengordon-hill What?

@@Mr.Sax. Maybe watch the video

@@darrengordon-hill I've watched it, next time at least write the reference correctly, it's just 3 words. My comment was serious by the way, nothing to laugh about injuries.

@@gunnernathan7023 Main difference is that Bill Walton didn't have access to today's medicine, diets, rehab procedures, game gear... Had Davis played in Walton's era, he would have lasted 5 years at best.

and will commit 6 to per game

Yea but TB and AD Is very different but we’ll see

1d1ot

Didn’t LA say he would miss a month?

thats what im saying i literally landed on my ankle that ive injured alot with my full body weight and only got a ligament stretch/strain

His ankles have been injured repeatedly though, which makes them easier to injure again and harder to rehab.

You do realize AD also may not be playing at 100% even when he comes back? Dude will still be run ragged on the court by the All-Star game.

@@t4d0W I think he should be fine by all star break, it didn’t look to be of a injury. Most likely it’s less then a month from what the injury LOOKED like

I mean... Pelinka decided to let go of his wing depth and not resign Caruso just to get Westbrook. When the book was already written that a healthy Lebron + reliable shooters is a baseline playoff team. Now Laker fans went to cheering for THT to Austin Reeves.

@@t4d0W delusional

i agree sort of but I would say he was better then AD was a friggin beast in the bubble Ben made a video about how AD was basically MVP (probably should have won DPOY) material that season

Bubble AD I think was a specific thing considering he was also not at 100% then either. He only had at least 21 games to push himself to near 100% playing form. Still impressive considering dude was guarding the opposing teams' best wing scorer in the finals at the perimeter.

@@jokimbuenafe13 no one cares about some bubble

@@t4d0W no one cares about some dumb bubble young fella

It resulted in no ring

They walked to no title