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Black Lives Matter: NBA player who did not kneel hurts… knee

2020-08-03T12:46:23.834Z


Orlando winger Jonathan Isaac ruptured his cruciate ligaments in the Magic's victory over Sacramento. He is also the only play


Magnetic resonance imaging passed by Jonathan Isaac confirmed the feared diagnosis: "rupture of the cruciate ligaments", formalized his club Orlando Magic following Sunday night's victory against Sacramento 132-116. Ironically, the winger is also the first player not to kneel during the American anthem when the NBA season resumes at Disney World.

It was after a support to go up to the circle, at the start of the fourth quarter, that Isaac collapsed, immediately holding the knee. In tears, consoled by his teammates, he left the floor in a wheelchair. “As long as we don't know, we have to keep hope. But it does not look good at all, ”said worried coach Steve Clifford.

A huge blow for the player, who was back on the court in this resumption of the championship, after eight months of absence due to a hyper-extension suffered in the same knee on January 1 in Washington. He has missed 31 matches this season because of the injury.

Only player to have remained standing during the anthem

The player was talked about when he returned on Friday for standing during the American anthem, while all the other protagonists of the match against Brooklyn had kneeled to protest against racial injustice in the United States.

“I absolutely support Black Lives Matter, I just felt that getting down on my knees or wearing a t-shirt […] was not essential to support” this movement, he explained afterwards. "When you look around you, racism is not the only thing that torments our society, which torments our nation, which torments our world," continued the player, a practicing Christian who sometimes preaches in a non-denominational church in 'Orlando.

Source: leparis

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