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With the 2022-23 NBA season fast approaching, we’re taking a look at some of the players who are especially hoping to stay healthy and on the field this year.
The old adage “availability is the best ability” holds a lot of truth in the NBA.
While the helpful and wise words from the bench are nice, they pale in comparison to being outside on the field and actually playing the ball. Unfortunately, some of the players who are already prone to injury are back on track: Lonzo Ball, Garen Jackson Jr. and Robert Williams. They all underwent recent surgery. It will take some time until they are ready to play basketball again.
Below are five players looking to avoid a similar fate, hoping to get rid of this injury-prone rating once and for all.
Who is looking to weed out injury-prone dates for a healthy NBA season?
5. Victor Oladipo, Miami Heat
Victor Oladipo has not played more than 36 games in a season since 2017-18 when he rose to the All-Star status as the most advanced player in the league. Everything changed in January 2019 when he tore his quad, a potential injury to the end of his career. Two matches later and in only his fourth match with the Heat in April 2021, he broke the same quartet again. Less than a year later, Oladipo is back on the field, diving into the very rockets that replaced him in Miami.
Dipo returned with the Heat on a current two-year deal with a second-year player option. In Game Five of last season’s first-round series against the Atlanta Hawks, Oladipo scored 23 points, leading the Heat to victory without Jimmy Butler and Kyle Lowry. He was going to play another 23-point game in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Celtics, and his four steals in Game 3 were a huge contribution to the Heat’s victory in Boston that night.
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