According to ESPN, the exceptional player suffered an Achilles hersonal – that should also have an impact on the coming season.
The Milwaukee Bucks have to fight for the turn in the NBA playoffs without Damian Lillard – but the exceptional player should even lack the team until the coming season.
As ESPN reports on Monday evening, the Point Guard suffered a tear of the left Achilles tendon that this resulted in an MRI examination. Lillard suffered the injury in game four of the playoff series against the Indiana Pacers (103: 129) last Sunday.
The Bucks, in which Lillard has the greatest expectations alongside top star Giannis Antetocounmpo, are 1: 3 in the best-of-Seven series, Indiana can already decide on Tuesday (local time) with a home win.
“It’s hard to be in his situation”
For Milwaukee, however, Lillard’s serious injury is not just a setback for the current season, an Achilles tendon tear usually results in a half -year rehabilitation. The next season of the NBA begins in October.
With Antetocounmpo and Lillard, who joined the team in 2023, the Bucks actually want to develop into the title candidate. However, Lillard is repeatedly thrown back, most recently he had had to expose in the right calf due to a blood angel. “It is hard to be in his situation,” said Antetocounmpo right after the game on Sunday, “but he is one of the mentally strongest players I know and he will overcome any obstacle.” And we will help him. “