Davis Joint Trauma Institute, Seattle.
Although it is called the "Institute", it is actually a very famous private hospital. The owner of the researcher, Professor Davis, is also a top expert in the treatment of knee joint injuries.
At this time, Professor Davis was sitting in front of the computer, carefully looking at the MRI results on the computer screen. While watching, Davis kept mumbling: "It's impossible, how can it be possible to fully recover."
When Wood was injured that year, he also consulted Professor Davis for diagnosis and treatment and consulted him on treatment plans. Therefore, Davis' Joint Trauma Institute still preserves Wood's medical records and various examination data from that year.
"I have done hundreds of cruciate ligament tears, and none of them can be restored to 100%. Moreover, Wood is different from other patients. He also has a severe strain injury, and his wound is more prone to inflammation, so even if It was surgical treatment, and postoperative complications are inevitable."
"Later, he suffered consecutive meniscus tears, which also confirmed this. Because the cruciate ligament cannot fully recover, he will be more susceptible to injuries than other athletes, and every time he is injured, his knee will get worse. That is to say, if he does not cultivate and continues to play, his knees will only get worse!"
"Wood's knee injury of this degree is medically a death sentence. It is irreversible. Unless new treatment methods are applied... "
Thinking of new treatment methods, Professor Davis's eyes flashed with a burning color.
Medicine should be the fastest growing science in the world today. Although there are still a large number of diseases that cannot be treated by medicine, after all, individuals are subject to birth, old age, illness and death, and everyone wants to live longer, so people can live longer. Longer-term medicine is naturally the easiest discipline to obtain investment and the easiest to make profits.
Therefore, if the medical community suddenly emerges with a new method of treating cruciate ligament tears, Professor Davis will not feel disadvantaged.
The phone rang. Professor Davis looked away from the computer screen and answered the call.
"Professor Davis, I contacted an insider of the Clippers through some personal relationships. The answer he gave me was the same as what Wood said in the interview. Wood's recovery is entirely due to rehabilitation training." On the phone. The person spoke.
"Rehabilitation training? Haha, it's okay to deceive ordinary people." Davis said disdainfully. After pondering for a few seconds, he asked: "Is it possible for you to get Wood's recent MRI results?"
"Well, I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. This belongs to the patient's privacy. Revealing privacy will violate the law..." The other party hesitated.
"I can pay you an additional investigation fee." Davis continued: "I am a doctor, and I have also treated Wood. I just want to know to what extent his knee has recovered. This is just The demand for pure scientific research is for the development of medicine.”
"In that case, I am willing to contribute to the development of medicine." The other party laughed, and then said: "Professor, if your time permits, I will go to your place tomorrow to pick up the check."
Obviously, the other party cares more about the investigation fee.
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The NBA announced its best players for the first week of the new season.
In terms of statistics, Wood is not the highest. He only averages 25+7 per game. There are many strongmen with 25+10 or 30+8 in other teams. In terms of team record, the Clippers only have 2 wins and 1 loss. In comparison, there are also teams with 3 and 4 consecutive wins in the Western Conference.
However, the Western Conference Player of the Week was still taken away by Wood.
The youngest MVP ever had no shortage of fans and popularity. Wood also won the jersey sales championship back then, so when he recovered and produced good data, he immediately attracted countless fans to return. Therefore, Wood's Best of the Week award is more due to fans praising him.
In the following games, the Clippers defeated the Spurs, Grizzlies and Thunder consecutively, achieving a three-game winning streak.
The Grizzlies have had a lot of personnel changes in recent seasons. The inside pillars they were once proud of have been unable to perform well in the small ball era. Moreover, the Grizzlies have just changed their coach, and the team has not yet adjusted to the new tactics. It is normal to lose to the Clippers.
The Spurs, a long-established team, have had a bit of a bad year. The team's most important core players have been at odds with the team's management and refused to renew their contracts in advance. After the start of the new season, they even cited unrecovered injuries as an excuse. Refuse to play. This guy obviously doesn't want to stay in the Spurs anymore and wants to change to a team that can give him a maximum salary. Because of this, the Spurs are now in panic, the players are not interested in playing, and even the old coach of the Spurs is a little unable to control the situation. For a team like this, losing is not surprising.
As for the victory over the Thunder, it was another battle between superstar guards.
Wood once won the regular season MVP, and the Thunder point guard also won the regular season MVP. He is also a famous triple-double expert in the NBA. Wood is very good at breakthroughs, and the Thunder's MVP guard is also good at breakthroughs. So when it comes to the competition field, it is inevitable that the two people will start to compete.
In fact, in the last match between the two teams, these two people started to compete with each other. They were both point guards and regular season MVPs. It was a head-to-head matchup. Both sides tried their best and every ball was played extremely excitingly.
The guard of the Thunder has averaged a triple-double in a season, which few people in the history of the NBA have been able to achieve. He also won the regular season MVP based on this terrifying data. In this game, he still got a triple-double. It's just that his triple-double was suppressed by the triple-double data of the Clippers players.
Someone on the Clippers also got a triple-double. This person was not Wood, but backup center Calabi.
Calabi's statistics for this game were 13 points, 15 rebounds and 10 blocks.
In basketball games, 99% of triple-doubles are points + rebounds + assists. It is not difficult for any player with some offensive skills to get 10 points; for any player with a decent rebounding ability, it is very possible to get 10 rebounds; for any player with a slightly better passing awareness, as long as his teammates are not too aggressive Damn it, it's not difficult to get 10 assists.
But these two statistics of 10 blocks and 10 steals really require the right time, place, and people to appear.
Calaby is the NBA's four-time block leader. He has also had triple-doubles 4 times in his career, all by scoring, rebounding and blocking. This is his fifth triple-double, so he doesn't have a triple-double. Not an unusual thing.
But at the "advanced age" of 35 years old, it is a bit incredible to get a triple-double of points, rebounds and blocks.
This is also thanks to the Thunder giving face. The Thunder's defender also competed with Wood. Wood used breakthroughs to score. In order to prove that he was better than Wood, he also continued to use breakthroughs to score.
However, the two sides have completely different blocking abilities in the penalty area. The Thunder's inside line is also considered excellent. He is a seven-footer and has certain mid-range shooting ability and penalty area finishing ability, but he averages only one block per game.
As for the Clippers, Calabi is the four-time block leader. After age reduction, he has returned to the peak body of a 30-year-old. Coupled with the experience accumulated over the years, this kind of veteran can always judge. The direction of the opponent's breakthrough and the timing of the layup, and then a big block slapped the ball down.
So when the Thunder defender insists on breaking through to the basket, the result can be imagined. Every time he breaks through, he gives Calabi a chance to block a shot. Calabi is not polite, even if he can't cover his opponent, he will use various methods to interfere with the opponent's layup. The result was a triple-double.
A triple-double of points, rebounds and blocks may not appear once in an NBA season. This undoubtedly made the NBA headlines the next day.
At this time, people also noticed Calaby’s statistics this season. Averaged 10.8 points, 12.2 rebounds and 4.3 blocks per game. The high blocking data is only because he just had a triple-double, which raised his average data. However, averaging 10.8 points and 12.2 rebounds per game is not at all like the performance of a 35-year-old veteran.
For comparison, when Calabi won the block title, he averaged almost this kind of data per game. If Calabi can maintain this state, he will undoubtedly be the top defender of the penalty area in the NBA today.
Calaby was acquired in exchange for Ronnie. When the deal was originally concluded, many people felt that the Clippers used their young core to replace a 35-year-old veteran who could no longer play, and only earned one draft pick. , this is a failure.
But now it seems that the Clippers clearly made money from this deal. The Clippers not only got a first-round pick, but also a top-notch defender.
In the NBA, there will never be a shortage of outside players with scoring ability, and there are always players with strong offensive abilities among the rookies every year. However, top interior defensive gates are a scarce product, and top penalty area defenders are not. Ordinary blue-collar meat shields, even with the advent of the small ball era, top interior defenders are still a piece of the puzzle to win the championship, and they are a piece of cake that any strong team wants to get.
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Sacramento. In a luxurious apartment, a nearly forty-year-old black man was sweating profusely on a treadmill.
He is two meters tall, has a shaved head, and has no tattoos on his strong muscles. He looks very clean.
The TV hanging on the wall next to him was playing yesterday's top five shots in the NBA, and the number one among the five best shots was not a score, but a wonderful block.
Karabi leaped high, slapped the basketball in the air, and then the ball flew directly outside the half court.
"Beautiful block! Karabi, this old guy, who is only a few years younger than me, can still jump so high! And with that triple-double data, this guy's performance in the new season seems to be several years younger." Black man. Said to himself, then he pressed the pause button of the treadmill, and the treadmill slowly stopped.
The black man picked up the phone on the table, opened Twitter, and found Calabi inside.
"Hey, old guy, you can still jump!" the black man wrote this message.
However, a few minutes later, Calabi replied.
"Flying Man, are you envious? I have found my youth again! Do you want to try it?"
The black readers frowned when they responded like this.