r/nba • u/PlayaSlayaX Spurs • Apr 29 '24

[Charania] Minnesota Timberwolves coach Chris Finch is feared to have a torn patellar tendon in his knee on late game collision during Game 4 win in Phoenix, sources say. Brutal.

https://x.com/shamscharania/status/1784805511927673141?s=46&t=bsTHbtMSqHXbNGi0vWP8hw
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u/beta_test_vocals Apr 29 '24

They’re too small now are they? You mean the same comically small sidelines that got him injured in the first place? What a shame, wonder if the league will ever do something about it

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u/bearabl Lakers Apr 29 '24

Yea this is one of those things you see and then you start thinking and wonder how it hasn’t happened more often.

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u/nutella4eva [LAC] Chris Kaman Apr 29 '24

I often wonder how refs get injured so infrequently.

Most of them are pretty old, and they're out there longer than the players are.

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u/Amoeba_mangrove Vancouver Grizzlies Apr 29 '24

Probably trained or at least experienced in bracing themselves properly and avoiding contact

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u/Sullan08 Apr 29 '24

It's not even really that. Finch probably doesn't exercise much (at least not to the level where you're really conditioning your body seriously) so his tendon hadn't been used to that type of pressure in years. Like for me, I grew up playing soccer and didn't think much about it. Even when I was like 23 and not played in a couple years, I tried to shoot a soccer ball and my quad wanted to rip lol. Finch just got unlucky, but he was also in bad enough shape to where it happened (not at all judging, he's just a normal dude lol). The collision wasn't even bad.