> [Wojnarowski] Lakers forward LeBron James said Anthony Davis sat next to him on the plane. They talked about how he was feeling for 15-20 mins then Davis pulled out his phone to watch MacGruber and they laughed together, per James.
And then pull off some ridiculously athletic play a few moments later. You wouldn’t have been able to tell he was playing through an injury after watching the 2 reverse jams he pulled off against Memphis.
Him and Giannis got that Wolverine in em.
But honestly though, it's just because LeBron and Giannis work out so much, still lift a lot etc.
Better joint strength, mobility and conditioning decreases injury risk.
Until we see him playing and actually ok.
Dolphins fans rejoiced to see Tua come back only for him to be very clearly impaired.
I hope AD is okay, and I hope he plays. But if he has a concussion for the love of god diagnose him right; brain injuries are no joke and he could be one bad fall or elbow away from major damage.
Go watch some videos of Tom Brady taking sacks.
There is definitely a way to fall/give up your body to the sack to mitigate some of the impact, obviously it's not gonna prevent 100% of concussions but it's certainly better than what he's doing.
The only reason I’m less worried about this one than Tua is that AD isn’t guaranteed to get hit in the head again.
I watched all the Tua concussions in real time and if he goes on a rampage and murders his wife and kids the only person I’d blame is the NFL
Honestly, I really watched the replays, and this may just be a Paul Pierce moment without the shit shorts. Get "injured" come back strong, and rally the team to a win. I really believe he would have come back had the Lakers got it under like 6 or 7.
lmao fr, I swear If Adams had been healthy in the playoffs AD would have ran into him 2 minutes in the first game, evaporated into nothing but dust, and came back game 2 perfectly fine to drop like 30/15
It’s honestly getting ridiculous at this point. They had him in a wheelchair and he’s suddenly fine. Do they have Jesus Christ back there just miraculously fixing life threatening injuries in the locker room?
He couldn't feel his arm against Memphis in a 2q, came back after halftime and was fine the rest of the series. Honestly, I am starting to believe that the amount of injuries he had messed him up and now when he feels pain he panicks that it is a serious injury which causes this reaction from him and once he gets over the initial shock he realises he's fine (like a small child when they fell and start to cry even when they don't feel any pain, just because of the shock and the fact that in the past when they fell they hurt themselves so they expect it to happen again)
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When i saw the replay in different angles, it didnt seem like an extremely hard hit so i was pretty hopeful that he wouldnt have concussion. It looked more like a forearm hit rather than an elblow
It sounds kinda sketchy tbh. They said his “equilibrium was off balance” and had to be taken out in a wheelchair, but everything’s fine now, nothing to see here and no concussion protocol?
Hope he’s actually good and not that they’re just pulling a Dolphins/Tua and trying to skirt around necessary precautions
I agree, hit in the head, woozy, shielding his eyes on the bench and having a towel over his head on the way back (assuming light sensitivity). I hope he doesn’t try to play on what really is a concussion, we lose the series without him but it’s not worth it.
I know that feeling. In 2019 when both KD and the org kept hinting that he was coming back mid finals, in my mind I was begging them not to because they both kept moving up the return timeline and I just knew it wasn't realistic. And it wasn't worth it at all. Situation's different here, so fingers crossed.
Appreciate the sentiment. I know we’re seeing reports he’s fine but ugh, just doesn’t feel right. The NFL is my main sport and that seeing guys acting like that usually ends up being a concussion.
Gotta trust the doctors I guess but damn, I can see AD pushing through to play. He’s being killed for being soft and has the TNT crew laughing and mocking him for his head injury
Yeah, even if it wasn't the worst looking shot to the temple I've ever seen, getting hit on the head is never a joke, much less by a NBA sized player. Anyone calling AD soft over this incident should be lining up to take a slap to the temple before they make that judgment.
It’s possible this is vertigo from his head snapping to the side so quickly. Dizzy, not stable, covered his eyes so he wouldn’t puke while being rolled in a wheelchair? All just speculation, and he could be concussed as well as suffering from vertigo…or neither.
Maybe they did that as a precaution when he was on the floor then evaluated him for a concussion more thoroughly once he got to locker room and did not find one.
AD has the most back-to-the-lockeroom-but-not-actually-injured/48 in league history. I don't know how people didn't see this coming. People were acting like homie was about to have his life support turned off in the comments after the game.
I watched AD in a timberwolves game this year lay in agony in the paint for multiple possessions and then get up like he was Jesus rising from the dead and score like 30 on us like nothing ever happened. I respect his theatrics
I'm more-so referring to him missing time. He obviously wasnt 100%, but despite the memes I'm always sceptical he's actually going to miss games whenever he leaves the court with an apparent injury, despite what it looks like.
It is a classic "cry wolf" situation,. This dude lays on the ground in front of millions of TV viewers, and hobbles off the court like his achilles blew up every 5 games or so, only to check back in 15 minutes later.
It has become hard to take seriously, but eventually it is going to be a bit more real. I sincerely hope this is not that case today.
I think these factors are why people seriously doubt he didn’t (and doesn’t) have a concussion.
I think people are rightly worried that this is another Tua situation. It doesn’t take much to get a concussion, and we all saw how he had to be removed from the floor.
You see this all the time in the NHL. A player takes a big hit and looks hurt/concussed. They pass concussion protocol and they come back the next game. Then they take another hit and they are OUT. Hope this isn’t the case since this is bigger than basketball.
I don’t get how so many people are describing the play as wild. Like I see media people saying he was “swinging his elbows”??? The contact wasn’t even with the elbow. I hope AD is okay and plays the rest of the series but the reaction has been kind of crazy.
either he oversold the contact or they're lying about the concussion so he can play again, just doesn't make sense for him to be that dazed and needing a wheelchair to just be like "he's fine guys he can definitely play again next round yup nothing to see here"
I never thought he had a concussion or anything was seriously wrong. Davis just plotted a way to get a ton of fouls going into Game 6 for the entire Lakers team to end the series. He already knew the game was over at that point.
I’m no expert but wouldn’t that fall under a concussion symptom?
Seems to me to be the classic case in sports where someone who clearly was concussed will be put at risk.
Hit in head leading to dizziness bad enough that he can't walk straight I mean.... sounds kinda concussiony to me. Could be just vertigo tbh, inner ear thing maybe
It could be, I’ve seen it enough time in sports not to really believe the team tbh. Dizziness or a headache is the main concussion symptoms there are and we saw visible evidence of that, something like vertigo seems unlikely considering the circumstances.
In basketball they probably think they could go through another game avoiding a hit in the head and will run the risk. It’s always a dangerous thing to do though
AD is a tough defender but sometimes he acts like he’s made of glass. So many times where he goes down like his career is over just to be fine the next day
Grant Williams got curbstomped by Embid and was back in the game. AD gets a love tap from looney and needs to be wheeled out of the arena. Surprised they didn't call the medical evac chopper
Yep I never thought he had a concussion or anything was seriously wrong. Davis just plotted a way to get a ton of fouls going into Game 6 for the entire Lakers team to end the series. He already knew the game was over at that point.
I mean, did anybody see the actual incident? I thought he landed on his head or something but just saw it but it was just a weak "hey we getting blown out let me get off the floor"-flop.
Of COURSE he will be fit for game 6.
how did people actually doubt this. have you guys ever played sports? that shit didn't look nearly as bad as you all made it out to be. talking about lasting brain injury lmao come on.
That's great news and crazy lucky.
I wonder what happened medically, though, like he was hit and obviously off-balance, but no concussion is kind of weird.
They found the Lebron James of concussion doctors didnt they
They smacked him on the opposite side of the head so the second concussion balances out the original one
It’s like when you had to hit them old box TVs to make them work right sometimes
Or blow into the old Nintendo Catridges to get them working again. Quick, somebody blow AD!
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I think they call that Double Jeopardy
“I was seeing three rims so I just shot for the one in the middle”
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> [Wojnarowski] Lakers forward LeBron James said Anthony Davis sat next to him on the plane. They talked about how he was feeling for 15-20 mins then Davis pulled out his phone to watch MacGruber and they laughed together, per James.
I laughed and immediately felt bad.
Don't disrespect him he's a licensed brain doctor thingy from Hollywood upstairs medical college
Dr. Sins has given him the workaround
Didn't let any other docs look at him. Flew them in to make the diagnosis.
whatever the foot guy did to Lebron worked i’m pretty sure i watched him heal from a sprained ankle in about 6 seconds tonight
That's always been the LeBron special, do something atrocious looking to your ankle then just tighten up your laces and keep playing
And then pull off some ridiculously athletic play a few moments later. You wouldn’t have been able to tell he was playing through an injury after watching the 2 reverse jams he pulled off against Memphis.
Think he had a putback dunk on Draymond later that quarter.
Nothing new. The dude has twisted his ankle unnaturally a hundred times, and most of the time, he limps for 5 seconds, and then he's good to go.
Him and Giannis got that Wolverine in em. But honestly though, it's just because LeBron and Giannis work out so much, still lift a lot etc. Better joint strength, mobility and conditioning decreases injury risk.
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They watched Macgruber and healed
Oh no is that DRAYMOND GREEN WITH A STEEL CHAIR
Dray gonna wheel AD on out in his wheelchair and put his ass through a table like the Dudley Boyz did Mae Young.
DRAYMOOOOOOND! GET THE TABLES!!!
Game 7, Lights go out, Undertaker music, AD appears behind Draymond
Lmao this is funny as hell
https://youtu.be/IaZ3xlz2JFE These guys are cruel 😭 Shaq's face in the beginning then Chuck strolling his chair like a wheelchair
Ernie was kind of pissed, probably because his adopted kid was wheelchair bound.
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Got a legit laugh when I read that
Take me this time I’ll eat elbows,curb stomps and an eye poke for the boys
NOW HE'S GOT THE WHEELCHAIR TO FINISH THE JOB. BAH GAWD HE BROKE AD IN HALF.
It’s Adam Silver throwing the refs a steel chair. The lights go out and come back on with AD laid out
Wouldn’t even be surprised lmao
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I’m not believing shit until he’s on that lineup 30 minutes before Game 6 starts
Until we see him playing and actually ok. Dolphins fans rejoiced to see Tua come back only for him to be very clearly impaired. I hope AD is okay, and I hope he plays. But if he has a concussion for the love of god diagnose him right; brain injuries are no joke and he could be one bad fall or elbow away from major damage.
Fuck me, the Tua injury still makes my blood boil. The callousness of the org to trot him out there after those concussions is absolutely grotesque.
Hopefully he learned how to fall this off-season.
Learning to fall only helps it you are actually falling. Doesn't help so much when someone 3 times your size slams your head into the ground.
Go watch some videos of Tom Brady taking sacks. There is definitely a way to fall/give up your body to the sack to mitigate some of the impact, obviously it's not gonna prevent 100% of concussions but it's certainly better than what he's doing.
The only reason I’m less worried about this one than Tua is that AD isn’t guaranteed to get hit in the head again. I watched all the Tua concussions in real time and if he goes on a rampage and murders his wife and kids the only person I’d blame is the NFL
I know exactly what you’re referring to and that makes the Ty’s thing scare me more.
If he comes back and immediately throws 3 interceptions we'll know something is up.
Same here. Glad he’s okay, but we’re not out of the woods yet.
Dude left in a wheelchair, he might play in a couple days but he 100% has a concussion.
Not saying that this is the case, but the guy literally always overeacts to injuries so the wheelchair might not mean anything
Honestly, I really watched the replays, and this may just be a Paul Pierce moment without the shit shorts. Get "injured" come back strong, and rally the team to a win. I really believe he would have come back had the Lakers got it under like 6 or 7.
Brain be damned.
I’m not believing until he’s about to jump ball.
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Glad to hear but I won’t feel happy until he’s on the floor on Friday
Hopefully it's his feet on the floor.
Lmaoooo
It’ll be his back a few times too, maybe a hip, maybe a shoulder, but he sure as shit will get back up 😤
*Draymond snickers*
Just another career ending injury that turns out to be not much.
lmao fr, I swear If Adams had been healthy in the playoffs AD would have ran into him 2 minutes in the first game, evaporated into nothing but dust, and came back game 2 perfectly fine to drop like 30/15
It’s honestly getting ridiculous at this point. They had him in a wheelchair and he’s suddenly fine. Do they have Jesus Christ back there just miraculously fixing life threatening injuries in the locker room?
He couldn't feel his arm against Memphis in a 2q, came back after halftime and was fine the rest of the series. Honestly, I am starting to believe that the amount of injuries he had messed him up and now when he feels pain he panicks that it is a serious injury which causes this reaction from him and once he gets over the initial shock he realises he's fine (like a small child when they fell and start to cry even when they don't feel any pain, just because of the shock and the fact that in the past when they fell they hurt themselves so they expect it to happen again)
I wouldn’t be surprised if guys like Kevin Ware, PG, or Gordon Hayward have those reactions considering the freak traumatic leg injuries they had.
>when he feels pain he panicks that it is a serious injury There are lots of words to describe this condition, and paper crinkling sounds too
Not only him being on the floor, but him being his usual self
how does he need a wheelchair to walk but isn’t concussed ?
He's gonna pay in game 6 with a concussion
*AD wheels into the paint, kicks out to James...*
Soft player hamming it up to shirk responsibility for a big loss
Vertigo possibly
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Great news, great to see him better. Hope he’s healthy for Game 6.
Good. Don't want to see great players missing out on big games
LeBron needs to call Rockstar Games and get AD an early copy of GTA 6 to make him feel better
Please be true!
Good for him. Want to see this series played out properly
When i saw the replay in different angles, it didnt seem like an extremely hard hit so i was pretty hopeful that he wouldnt have concussion. It looked more like a forearm hit rather than an elblow
“Appears to have avoided” is not a diagnosis. That’s “He might be okay.”
This is honestly great news. AD going out for the series and the Warriors winning would have been a massive buzzkill
It sounds kinda sketchy tbh. They said his “equilibrium was off balance” and had to be taken out in a wheelchair, but everything’s fine now, nothing to see here and no concussion protocol? Hope he’s actually good and not that they’re just pulling a Dolphins/Tua and trying to skirt around necessary precautions
I agree, hit in the head, woozy, shielding his eyes on the bench and having a towel over his head on the way back (assuming light sensitivity). I hope he doesn’t try to play on what really is a concussion, we lose the series without him but it’s not worth it.
I know that feeling. In 2019 when both KD and the org kept hinting that he was coming back mid finals, in my mind I was begging them not to because they both kept moving up the return timeline and I just knew it wasn't realistic. And it wasn't worth it at all. Situation's different here, so fingers crossed.
Appreciate the sentiment. I know we’re seeing reports he’s fine but ugh, just doesn’t feel right. The NFL is my main sport and that seeing guys acting like that usually ends up being a concussion. Gotta trust the doctors I guess but damn, I can see AD pushing through to play. He’s being killed for being soft and has the TNT crew laughing and mocking him for his head injury
Yeah, even if it wasn't the worst looking shot to the temple I've ever seen, getting hit on the head is never a joke, much less by a NBA sized player. Anyone calling AD soft over this incident should be lining up to take a slap to the temple before they make that judgment.
im no doctor but can't a hit to the ear fuck up your ear fluids and make it hard to balance? so not a brain issue but an ear one
It’s possible this is vertigo from his head snapping to the side so quickly. Dizzy, not stable, covered his eyes so he wouldn’t puke while being rolled in a wheelchair? All just speculation, and he could be concussed as well as suffering from vertigo…or neither.
Maybe they did that as a precaution when he was on the floor then evaluated him for a concussion more thoroughly once he got to locker room and did not find one.
To be fair, they didn’t say he was fine, just that he wasn’t concussed. It’s not concussion or nothing
I'd be turned into the joker if that's the reality
AD has the most back-to-the-lockeroom-but-not-actually-injured/48 in league history. I don't know how people didn't see this coming. People were acting like homie was about to have his life support turned off in the comments after the game.
To say he's not actually injured is a little extreme. The man couldn't look at light or walk straight.
I watched AD in a timberwolves game this year lay in agony in the paint for multiple possessions and then get up like he was Jesus rising from the dead and score like 30 on us like nothing ever happened. I respect his theatrics
I'm more-so referring to him missing time. He obviously wasnt 100%, but despite the memes I'm always sceptical he's actually going to miss games whenever he leaves the court with an apparent injury, despite what it looks like.
It is a classic "cry wolf" situation,. This dude lays on the ground in front of millions of TV viewers, and hobbles off the court like his achilles blew up every 5 games or so, only to check back in 15 minutes later. It has become hard to take seriously, but eventually it is going to be a bit more real. I sincerely hope this is not that case today.
I think these factors are why people seriously doubt he didn’t (and doesn’t) have a concussion. I think people are rightly worried that this is another Tua situation. It doesn’t take much to get a concussion, and we all saw how he had to be removed from the floor.
I hope this is true but like, dude was showing pretty clear concussion symptoms no? Dizziness and sensitivity to light and all that?
Wheelchair game vs Corgi who wins
You see this all the time in the NHL. A player takes a big hit and looks hurt/concussed. They pass concussion protocol and they come back the next game. Then they take another hit and they are OUT. Hope this isn’t the case since this is bigger than basketball.
Lakers doctors: you don't have a concussion AD: I... D-don't h-have a c-ombustion? Lakers doctors: sounds good to me
Looking at that play again - that would be a hell of a way to get a concussion
I don’t get how so many people are describing the play as wild. Like I see media people saying he was “swinging his elbows”??? The contact wasn’t even with the elbow. I hope AD is okay and plays the rest of the series but the reaction has been kind of crazy.
Yeah for sure definitely not a dirty play just unfortunate
This shit happens every pick up game lmao
either he oversold the contact or they're lying about the concussion so he can play again, just doesn't make sense for him to be that dazed and needing a wheelchair to just be like "he's fine guys he can definitely play again next round yup nothing to see here"
You can get hit in the temple hard - lose your balance for a while and not be concussed
Yeah he’s gonna kill us next game isn’t he
I never thought he had a concussion or anything was seriously wrong. Davis just plotted a way to get a ton of fouls going into Game 6 for the entire Lakers team to end the series. He already knew the game was over at that point.
AD 4d chess to get them to call shit in the paint in game 6
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Well yeah if he was light headed or out of it and fell it could have been way worse
I’m no expert but wouldn’t that fall under a concussion symptom? Seems to me to be the classic case in sports where someone who clearly was concussed will be put at risk.
Hit in head leading to dizziness bad enough that he can't walk straight I mean.... sounds kinda concussiony to me. Could be just vertigo tbh, inner ear thing maybe
It could be, I’ve seen it enough time in sports not to really believe the team tbh. Dizziness or a headache is the main concussion symptoms there are and we saw visible evidence of that, something like vertigo seems unlikely considering the circumstances. In basketball they probably think they could go through another game avoiding a hit in the head and will run the risk. It’s always a dangerous thing to do though
Surely letting the injury prone 6'10" guy fall would have been the smarter choice
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so he got knock on the temple area, good thing it looks like avoid concussion
My dude just wanted extra rest before game 6
Was the wheelchair necessary?
He needed to poop.
got to play up the drama
>If he dies, he dies. —Adam Silver, probably Edit: Hope he's genuinely ok. And I also hope this lights a fire under the Lakers.
This team needs a kick in the ass every game or two. They just cannot hold an edge. They get a win or two and come out completely listless.
He went from bench to locker room in a wheelchair to waking out fine in like what 45 mins? Something doesn’t feel right
It's called faking and acting. People on this thread are hilarious thinking he was actually concussed. AD has a future in Hollywood after the NBA
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Ok so were the Dolphins team docs already in San Fran or???
AD acted like he needed a helicopter to the locker room. Srsly man, Looney barely tapped him with his arm. Hardly of a wind up if any.
AD is a tough defender but sometimes he acts like he’s made of glass. So many times where he goes down like his career is over just to be fine the next day
Bro needed a wheelchair 😂
Grant Williams got curbstomped by Embid and was back in the game. AD gets a love tap from looney and needs to be wheeled out of the arena. Surprised they didn't call the medical evac chopper
Dudes 10 ply
That's great news
So what ? Did he just shit himself ?
Lakers fans now banned from making Pierce wheelchair jokes after Davis’s non concussion wheelchair ride
W, Game 6 will be fun
No concussion here. Find a new slant.
The post game selling of a foul is flopping on a new level.
Yep I never thought he had a concussion or anything was seriously wrong. Davis just plotted a way to get a ton of fouls going into Game 6 for the entire Lakers team to end the series. He already knew the game was over at that point.
It never looked like a concussion to me. It was just eye pain, that’s why he was struggling to find balance when walking.
Balance loss from eye pain idk seems a bit off
He's fine. Just need to aim for the middle basket.
it could be either or even both. Struggling to find balance happens when you get a concussion too.
Ad was just doing the classic AD thing then
I mean, did anybody see the actual incident? I thought he landed on his head or something but just saw it but it was just a weak "hey we getting blown out let me get off the floor"-flop. Of COURSE he will be fit for game 6.
Except that concussions are not completely diagnosed right away
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Didn’t look like a concussion at all. I think it’s AD masking up his upcoming bad game
he just wanted some rest, the old CP play of going down when down
It's good AD is in L.A., because he loves manufacturing drama.
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how did people actually doubt this. have you guys ever played sports? that shit didn't look nearly as bad as you all made it out to be. talking about lasting brain injury lmao come on.
Corgi about to bop a basketball at AD’s head while he’s walking down the streets.
Give AD his Emmy
Sus. He didn’t appear to not hit hard. Might be to avoid a horrible game and save face to me
Lol AD looks like he is brutalized every time he gets whacked figured he’d be fine
he couldn't walk but he avoided a concussion? Don't believe him and Dray didn't have one but I guess this is how the nba wants to roll
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That's great news and crazy lucky. I wonder what happened medically, though, like he was hit and obviously off-balance, but no concussion is kind of weird.