The Milwaukee Bucks Guard, Damian Lillard, left game 4 or a first round series of the East Conference with the Indiana Pacers after throwing their lower left leg in the first quarter.
Lillard was helped to get out of the floor and enter the locker room after suffering the contactless injury. The Bucks announced that it won the return to the game. There is fear that Lillard suffered a torn Achilles, according to the informant of the NBA Chris Haynes.
The seven-time All-NBA player was behind the 3-point line when the ball bounced towards him. Lillard used his left hand to bow the ball towards his teammate Gary Trent Jr., then lowered and grabbed the bottom of his left leg, around his ankle. They continued to sit on the floor while the game resumed at the other end of the court.
After a lack of play, Kuzma de Milwaukee helped Lillard get up. Lillard then began to limit and had to be helped to leave the court and enter the locker room.
Lillard had lost the last 14 regular bucks seasonal games and the first game of this series while dealing with deep vein thrombosis in his right calf. Lillard was off -supply medication tasks and cleared to resume complete basketball activities at the end of the regular season, and returned to action for game 2 of this series El Tesday.
The deep vein thrombosis is an abnormal clot inside a glass where blood freezing blocks the flow on the road back to the heart.
Associated Press reports.
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