Jaden Ivey may very well have an opportunity to return this season regardless of the terrible leg harm that he simply suffered.
The Detroit Pistons announced on Thursday that their former top-five decide underwent profitable surgical procedure earlier within the day to restore a damaged fibula in his left leg. Ivey is now set to be re-evaluated in 4 weeks.
Omari Sankofa II of the Detroit Free Press also shared extra encouraging details about Ivey. Sankofa notes that the Pistons didn’t imagine that was any ligament or tendon injury to Ivey’s leg and provides that the four-week timetable helps the proof that Ivey had a clear break, a best-case situation for him underneath the circumstances.
The 22-year-old guard Ivey suffered the harm throughout Wednesday’s recreation in opposition to the Orlando Magic when Orlando’s Cole Anthony dove into his leg while going for a loose ball. Ivey needed to be taken off the courtroom in a stretcher, inflicting each groups to be visibly shaken.
After struggling to search out his footing up to now of his profession, Ivey had been having fun with a breakout season with 17.1 factors, 4.1 rebounds and 4.0 assists per recreation on 46/41/73 capturing splits.
Whereas the four-week timetable isn’t meant to recommend that Ivey will probably be again in motion inside that body, it does point out a chance that he might be again earlier than the season ends in three-and-a-half months (with Detroit at the moment in play-in place at 15-18).
