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Injured again! Durant had an operation before he started playing with the Rockets. How big is the impact

1:40am, 22 July 2025【Basketball】

Rockets fans were in a false alarm!

On July 10, Durant underwent minimally invasive surgery on his left thumb in New York, and the season ticket renewal rate soared from 72% to 89%.

asked me to say that the operation was too worthwhile.

The 45-minute minor surgery was performed to clean the bone spurs, and the surgeon patted his chest to ensure that the degree of damage was 10%.

More importantly, this left hand doesn't affect the guy at all - he played 62 games with injuries last season, with a shooting percentage of 52.7%, and the shooting percentage outside the three-point line is still 40%.

X-ray scan is even more outrageous. The wear of joint cartilage is lower than the NBA average. The team doctor reported only three words: non-shooter.

Durant slipped into the training hall with protective gear on the third day after the operation.

In the morning, he studied the Warriors' tactical video with Uduka, and in the afternoon, he taught rookie Shepard to shoot a three-pointer.

The bandage wrapped around the left hand and did not delay the right hand demonstrating without the ball to get rid of it. The equipment engineers on the sidelines were stunned.

Otherwise, the recovery method of super giants is different. The director of sports medicine at New York University has long been hit to death: the influence coefficient of non-usual thumb on shooters is less than 0.3.

Now the Rockets locker room is like a chicken blood.

Since Durant joined, his offseason training attendance rate has reached 98%.

Veteran Green revealed that the parking spaces are full at 7 o'clock in the morning, and the parking lot is still half empty this time last year.

The data of the ticket department was even more exaggerated. The operation news came out 24 hours ago, and season ticket sales soared by 17% year-on-year.

Hot posts in the forum are joking: If the left hand is repaired, I am afraid I will develop the magical skills of Tiangou!

To be honest, the 35-year-old veteran should worry that the Achilles tendon is not the thumb.

Look at the 2019 Achilles tendon ruptured, he still scored 29 points in the Olympic final.

The date of this operation was very accurate. The surgery was initiated on July 10 and he was cured on August 20 at the latest, half a month earlier than the training camp.

The Rockets Medical Group's files remember that Durant has never suspended his game due to a thumb injury in his career.

I want to say that the Warriors really deserve to panic - the Rockets made 12 shots in the last five minutes of the tiebreak last season. This year, Durant has a weak side cover, and the team's three-point shooting percentage can be directly increased by 6.3 percentage points.

Now the Houston store has printed 500 No. 7 jerseys overnight. At this time last year, Brooks' jersey was still in the discount area.

The scalpel has not had a big nail art drill, so panic has added fire to the Rockets.

It is better to worry about VanVleet if you really have to worry about it. Don’t be too busy and forget the shooting feel of the new Player Union Chairman.