Somewhat laughable reading the NBA "experts" talking about orthopedic injuries, they reported the injury as a "MCL tear" and then talked about it being a meniscus injury, anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of anatomy knows that the MCL (medial collateral ligament) is in fact by its very name a ligament that runs on the medial aspect of the knee. The meniscus is totally separate, thinking that the writer types who were not smart enough to do anything in the medical field would have at least had the curiosity to get the anatomy correct?

Have thought all along that this was similar to the Cohen injury where the initial injury was far worse than first suspected and that they likely missed diagnostic data by misreading the initial MRI's or by not consulting a top knee specialist initially. The initial Cohen injury involved a tibial plateau fracture which they of course never divulged, and I don't think Cohen was advised well by the team or by his agent, so he never said how bad the injury was which made both him and the Bears look like idiots.

The biggest problem with sports for profit entities is that they are invested in getting the athletes back quickly and employ doctors that have the teams best interests in mind, and are dealing with young and vulnerable people that lack the ability to understand the diagnosis and treatment plan that is being presented to them and do not have anyone in their lives to advise them.

The Ball kids dad is a raging idiot who likely could not grasp even the most rudimentary explanation of his kids injury, so the kid was likely not given any good advice on how to proceed.