Australian basketball star Josh Giddey has revealed he ruptured an ankle ligament while playing for Australia at the Olympics in Paris.
Australian basketball star Josh Giddey has revealed he ruptured an ankle ligament while playing for Australia at the Olympics in Paris, while Ben Simmons has defended his stop-start career but insists he is ready to re-emerge as a key figure in the league.
Hurt locker: Josh Giddey takes on fellow NBA star Nikola Jokic in the Australia-Serbia quarter-final at the Paris Olympics.“We thought it was just a regular ankle at the time, but flew back to Melbourne, got scans, and they kind of confirmed that. It’s getting better, it’s getting to the point where I’m almost back out there. But we’re taking it slow,” Giddey said.“This is not something you want to rush because we got time on our side at this point in the off-season.
“We started scrimmaging with 14-second shot clocks to emphasise the pace we want to play,” Giddey said.He was the No. 6 selection in the 2021 NBA draft by the Thunder.Meanwhile, fellow Australian Simmons says he is “ready to go” following his second back surgery in three years. It’s been six months since the point guard-forward had surgery, Simmons declaring “everything’s going well” and that there have been no setbacks.
“The priority is just to play and be healthy. So all the other stuff that’s being said, that’s just words from people that, obviously, have something to say about something they don’t know have information ,” Simmons, set to make $40 million this season, said. Reflecting on his career, Simmons said, as a player, he was “not that bad” and maybe even “pretty good.”
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