Zion Williamson suffers injury in Pelicans loss vs. Lakers despite scoring 40 Pts | NBA | UNDISPUTED

so with three minutes and 13 seconds left in that game last night Zion scored over Anthony Davis little three-foot floater to tie the game gave Zion 40 points for the game including going four of four in that fourth quarter Zion was having the game of his life just exploding again and again over and around and through the Lakers it did not look like he came down dangerously or awkwardly after making that shot then he walked to the bench with I don't know maybe a slight limp sat for a moment threw a towel in anger and then he fast walked up the tunnel toward the locker room Pal's coach Willie Green was asked specifically what was wrong was it a knee an ankle a groin Willie said all he knew was that it was a quote unquote left leg injury so cryptic so mysterious I have no idea exactly how or what was hurt with Zion I just could not believe that a rising super star who was able to fast walk to the locker room didn't at least try to come back and go back in the game whatever the injury was so Paul Pierce help me out here what do you think happened I really don't know Skip I mean I've never seen a injury where a player didn't grab on to something or or even w a little bit usually like when you come down uh on an injury on a turn ankle you see that right away or even when you strain a calf or you strain a hamstring like we saw a Yannis string and strain his calf he fell right to the ground you know Zion makes such a great move right here he Powers it up he comes down he's not limping he turns around and I'm like all right good move good move turns around starts walking I don't know if he tweaked the a but he just puts his face his uh his shirt over his face and goes to the bench then walks off I mean he would didn't walk off gingerly but it was mysterious to me he's having the game of his life life you would just think with three minutes to go uh he would somehow find a way to finish the game but it clearly was something I mean I don't think the magnitude of this game you would walk off and leave your team with three minutes to go if it's not something but you know we have yet to know I mean I you know Dr Johnson even though I'm not a doctor as I'm watching the clip and he comes down it looked as though to me when he came down he might have jammed something because it's almost like a a misstep yeah I understand and and so even if you jam like I've jammed toes you going to limp you going to out you going to Grimace but that's you he probably can fight through that though fight through it is is staying on the courner he probably could fight through grimacing though he probably could I'm just saying just cuz you and I we reach for something as soon as it you know we like oh man our shoulder our elbow our knee doesn't mean that he doesn't feel it doesn't mean that he didn't injure it earlier and then all of a sudden it comes back again I know but what do you always say about basketball players they a football players no Paul knows that they they yeah they okay most basketball players go down like they're shot right well it's true it's true but he's not a normal built basketball player body okay so when when he if you look at the if you look right here skipp when comes down we can't see it right there cuz the bar is in front of us last step you think is when he come no when he comes down it's almost like he jammed something watch watch the step right there right when it looks like it looks as though something got Jam I'm with you but there was no limp that resulted from the jam there nothing I I understand that but he probably could withstand that you're saying he was too tough for his own good like he was so tough that we can't even read into might be though ski some guys get hurt and you don't even notice that they hurt okay when we look at ad from the other night he gets pushed in the back by Nance we didn't he played he ran back up and down the court then all of a sudden as soon as they tried to put the screen on him he spinned out of it he was done for the night okay but you know and I know ad has a long history of being fragile I mean like the littlest thing I understand I understand too but this young man's been hurt in the NBA as well he has he's had hamstring injuries on his right leg last season he's been nicked and bruised but he played this year he played both of them had yeah they both have but think about the moment for Zion he's scored 40 points he's made all four of his shots in the fourth quarter he's got the Los Angeles Lakers on the ropes that is correct on national TV in his house and that is his house and by the way they had lost five straight games in his house and now they've lost six straight games now they got a seventh game here if I can't go skip I I understand and he couldn't clearly go and he was clearly angry about it like he knew immediately I am done for the night yeah he did he pulls his jersey up over his face as soon as it happens he he fall I mean he he lands on the ground he walks away he turns as he's walking he's like whatever he says damn I can't believe this and he pulls his jersey over his head as he walks toward the bench out look how he's walking after like every dunk after play Same Same ordeal he goes up right here he falls down he gets up and his walk after that play he got injured it was the same thing he looked turned and walked the same way he walked out into the tunnel so it was just like what what was the injury when he walking through the tunnel you can tell he's injured he's walking he's walking limping how he walked that's how he walks look look like he look that's how he walked look look how he walked right there he walk just like that show me the clip him walking through the tunnel that's a different walk no no that was the same walk the I mean okay all right here we go here we go watch walking through the T I'm walking I'm just power walk but it just looks like he's fine yeah it looks like he's he it looks like he's favoring that left side doesn't it not little bit I I said Dr Johnson Lim and you got glasses on Paul may all right your favorite player on the Pelicans is little Jose Alvarado and what happened to him I calling him avocado okay well you can call him whatever I'm sure you called him some other names last he got on my nerves he's like a little Patrick Beverly to me just all over the place so he comes down early and he turns one ankle and then he comes down again and somebody steps on his ankle and turns the other ankle and both the first time I thought he was shut down and he sucked it up and just ran through it cuz sometimes you can just keep on moving your ankle until it finally kind of opens back up and you say okay I can do this and he's getting Tre me right now dizzy on both sides prob doubt okay but there's a way to just tough it out you went through so much how many moments did you get hurt and you thought oh my God yeah but I play a different sport okay but then you start jogging on the sideline and you say I can do this I twisted my ankle playing basketball i' I've messed up my wrist playing baseball but at the same time my mental says I got to continue through it no matter what the case is everybody's not built like that everybody has a very different pain threshold absolutely take it and some just I went out on a whole wheelchair I went out on a whole wheelchair okay and came back and then what happed nothing WR came back and nothing wrong with you the miniscus or whatever it was twisted or whatever it was right went out on the wheelchair and came back TV cameras and what happened when you got back on the floor how did it feel yeah it was in pain but come on come on come on now you know you know the rest of the story you just want Mar Al somebody that say your name I know what it was you know the rest of the story but why would I do that in the finals game on purpose I I don't understand is you can play though your injury wasn't so significant you couldn't get back out on the court clearly something was wrong with him he couldn't get ont so so if Zion happens to play Thursday I'll question this more if he does it I get it they play they play Thursday they play Friday Friday Friday he plays Friday uhuh I'll question this more if not then well that puts a different heat on him because now it's almost like you don't what if it's more serious what if he play if he plays Friday what would you think about what happened then so what's today if he plays Friday wed Wednesday two Wednesday Thursday you got three Friday what are we calling the injury though we're calling it a hamstring the co somebody said hamstring the coach said leg injury doesn't matter what it is if he it does matter if he plays Friday it doesn't matter what the injury was that night night cuz that's saying to me you could have played the last three minutes no because you had time to rest and get the treatment man you got two days uh you're you're you're so you're hurt you're not injured there's two different things those are two he's yeah he's hurt not injured now you can play hurt but you can't play Hurt at that moment can't play injured no but you can't play Hurt at that moment that he got injured you can't that's why he went in the locker room why else would he go in the locker rooming if he plays Friday yeah but I'm questioning what happened today but why would you question him when he's had Wednesday he has Tuesday night to that's two days I mean what do you just turn into Superman all of a sudden in two days you walked off the court in the biggest game of your life for a chance to solidify a playoff spot come back and play Friday Paul you know how many professional athletes have gotten hurt in games and play two three days later because there's certain things called medicine that will get you going where you need to go there's certain things that they you know you went out of the wheelchair and came back the same game yeah because you the same game but you was able to so you went in the locker room whatever they did whatever magic they put on you pixie D whatever they rub on your KNE it's it's not even like all right I get it it's a regular season game I get that but this is the moment right now this is his first postseason time in in the playoffs or or the play in or what want call having it's all about the moment think about this how many times you say if how many times we seen guys that say if it was the playoffs I would have played but since it's the regular season yeah I mean if it was the playoffs I would have played hey all I know is if I am CJ McCollum or Brandon Ingram or maybe Larry n Jr I'm looking side eyed at him and I'm can't do we got to wait till Friday you play Friday then I'll question yesterday can't with y'all no listen though if he plays Friday I'll question if he I'll question yesterday but if he doesn't play Friday I'm like okay this is more serious than what we thought or what we observed even if he played on Friday you cannot question what occurred Tuesday night you going question toughness you going question mental will you're GNA question a lot of different things if we're talking about a pull or a tear calf or hamstring there's no medicine that can fix that in 48 hours there's just none there's none of course is pulled or or something like that or his T no question about it but if he done jammed his hip by coming down wrong or all of a sudden it's a a slight tweak where all of a sudden there's a knot there he can't run out on the court with the last three minutes of a game I got you he can play on Friday that's but if he plays Friday that's what I'm saying what's three more minutes that night because at that point in time you can't go up and down the court there was no Grimace there was no grabbing nothing there was no I mean it's it's going to get questioned whether we like it or not he's going to get if he plays Friday we're going to question other things about the what happened in the last three minutes I mean it just is what it is if he doesn't play so let me ask you this though Paul let me just simplify it for you big dog why you think he went off the court then if nothing was wrong with him you think he just said I I hope something was wrong with him so if he does play Friday I don't question what happened yesterday something was wrong with that's why he didn't continue the game all right we'll see Friday so Kean is it possible what do you think happen yeah I think he jammed something I think I I personally think Jam toe jam no I think it's like his hip maybe like jam because when he's walking in that when he's walking into the tunnel paw all right he's leaning heavy on his right side okay so if if he has a jammed hip all right okay and he's plays Friday through the jam hip what I'm saying is why couldn't he play three more minutes for their playoff life because he couldn't go at in the game of the life in the game of his life you would think that just some type of adrenaline like his adrenaline could have just for three minutes this dude need as you know he needs his legs to be able to do anything cuz to me this didn't look like a injured player walking off maybe it is maybe it's not we'll see Friday but like I keep saying if he plays Friday I'm questioning in these last three minutes that's only fair Kean is it possible Zion decided he didn't want Denver in the first round did he just say I'm out stop man SK I don't want any part of the Nuggets oh God so I'm going go I'm going go for 40 well I'm just I'mma go for 40 uh I'm I'mma lead our team and paint scoring and all that and then the last three and a half minutes of a damn game I'm going just say you know this is my last bucket I don't want Denver I don't want to see joker well it's insane asy okay I I got it but I it's so mysterious it's so inexplicable that in the game of your life and the game of your team's season you don't just say you know what I'm going to drag my leg back out there I'm just going to show them that I'm going to be out there maybe I can't even go but you don't I don't want you on the court you're no good to me I can't help you if you hurt you can't help us why would I want you out there in 3 minutes when you walking around like a dead man and I got somebody that can run up and down the court and CJ McCullum that I can just bring in Off the Bench now all of a sudden and insert him into lineup but he can go up and down the court why would I do that that's a disservice to the team it's just What You're Made Of it's just what's inside you the end you reach down just say it's true in certain cases with certain injuries there's no question about it skip but that injury was significant enough that he couldn't go back on the court that they sent me to the locker room again bottom line to this is the three of us have no idea exactly what because you want to know the truth the New Orleans team doctors have no real idea of what happened they just don't it's up to him to explain what happened I'm sure just like we did with ad and I go back to that yeah because we did not know originally no that Larry nass pushed him in the back the way we did not look at that we kept saying ourselves the hell is wrong with him all of a sudden he just turns out of it and he's done now and then once you go back and you start looking at things we realize oh he got pushing the back there's where it happened maybe they'll find that with Zion something happened leading up to that okay but ad didn't fast walk to the locker room he went over and looked like he was dying on the side right he looked like he was dying think about what you just said you said ad looking like he was dying yeah basketball player my nail hurts I need a wheelchair okay I'm mean like come on that was gamesmanship on his part I was playing chess playing check God playing POS what playing thanks for watching Undisputed fans do you want more highlights from the show make sure to click that 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Published: Wed Apr 17 2024