Wu Hua was crammed into a noisy media reception room, which has probably never been so hot at the Canada Airlines Center.

All the reporters had gathered, their seats already filled, and the rest of the people were squeezing every bit of space in the room.

Everyone is talking about what has just happened, and everyone can't wait to get some explosive news from the mouths of the people involved.

Just when the scene was noisy, the door to the media reception room was suddenly pushed open. Wu Hua and other colleagues all raised their cameras, and as soon as the visitor stepped in, the flashes continued to appear.

Three seconds later, however, almost all the reporters put down their cameras and looked at the two people sitting on the podium in amazement.

"Ask if there's anything you want!" Divac and Paul George looked blankly at the audience, and apart from the two of them, no one came into the media reception room for the third time.

"Li...... What about Coach Ricard?" a reporter asked, raising his hand and stammering.

"If you're going to waste time with this kind of question, George and I are gone. Divac wasn't in the mood to answer that kind of question, and he and George weren't in the mood for any bullshit press conference at the moment.

Had it not been for the fact that Anjie, Morris and Ricard, who were sent off the game, had gone to the hospital before the end of the game, Divac and George would not have bothered to deal with the group of reporters.

What about Lillard's injuries? Is the punishment of those three guys severe? The questions that reporters are concerned about are the same things that Divac and George want to know now.

In the end, the reporters had to leave empty-handed. But they will definitely not give up, and the major hospitals in Toronto have become the next target of reporters at this moment.

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MRIs are usually done in line, and this is not Portland, and in Toronto, Lillard doesn't get any preferential treatment. Even if the doctor is willing to let Lillard come first, I'm afraid that patients who also need to be tested will not agree.

Therefore, in the hospital lobby, these four guys who were still on TV just now are particularly eye-catching.

People gathered around the four of them, took out their mobile phones, and filmed frantically. But An Jie didn't react at all, it seemed that this group of people was like air, invisible and intangible.

Lillard's eyes were very hollow, and when his ankle twisted, he could even feel the pain of a broken bone. In previous seasons, Lillard has been suffering from minor ankle injuries. Maybe this battered ankle finally can't hold on.

This guy is not stupid, he knows that his injury this time is very likely not optimistic. Because this time the level of pain is not at the same level as before.

Moreover, if the injuries are not serious, the team doctor will not rush to the hospital for examination. If it's not serious, they'll have to wait until they get back to Portland.

"Hey, Damien. Just when Lillard was more and more scared the more he thought about it, Anjie suddenly called Lillard.

"Don't worry, okay? We've all been through more difficult times than this?" Angel squeezed out a smile at Lillard, and Lillard gave Angel a thumbs up.

"Let's go, it's our turn!" Suddenly, the Trail Blazers doctor pushed through the crowd of onlookers and led the four of them towards the MRI exam room.

The MRI examination does not take much time, but in this short period of time, Anjie and everyone seem to have been waiting for a long time.

Twenty minutes later, the electronic iron door of the examination room slowly opened, and the Trail Blazers team doctor and examiner walked out one after another.

"How's it going!?" Angel was the first to rush to the doctor, and Ricard and Morris surrounded him.

"To put it simply, Damien's ankle is not a simple sprain. Due to the excessive torque, coupled with the continuous minor injuries in the past, his ankle has long been full of holes. So this time, Damien's ankle is unfortunately a structural injury. The doctor gestured with his hand and patiently explained to An Jie.

"So?......" An Jie doesn't understand medicine either, and he only half-understands what the doctor says to him. An Jie turned his head to the team doctor, hoping that he would tell him the final result.

"So, in a conservative way, Damien may need to ...... for him to fully recover It will take four to five months......" The team doctor mustered up the courage to finally say this.

"Four to five months!?...... that said," Morris's eyes widened.

"That's right, Damien can't go on with us in the next races. He...... He must officially announce the reimbursement of the season. The team doctor sighed, and there really wasn't much he could do about Lillard's injury.

Structural damage to a player's bones is not like a cold or fever, which can be cured by an injection and a medicine. It's a long process for athletes to recover from injuries and get back to their previous form.

"Son of a bitch!" After hearing the result, An Jie slammed the wall hard, Ibaka was really too much this time, too much!

The importance of ankle to an NBA player is self-evident, and many players have even faded out of the NBA league quickly because of ankle injuries that affect their careers.

A basketball player performs a variety of movements, including shooting, breaking, changing direction, ...... When doing these movements, almost all the weight of the body is applied to the ankle, and if the ankle is injured, the results can be imagined. The player's reaction speed, explosiveness and other functions are likely to decline, and at the same time, it will also have a great impact on the player's heart, and he will not dare to do all kinds of actions as he wants in the game.

Sprains are still trivial, but God knows how far Lillard can recover from this structural injury.

Grant Hill, who was once known as "the closest person to Jordan", has plummeted because of an ankle problem. The former Yao Ming had to choose to retire because his ankle was overwhelmed.

"You mean that if he recovers well, Damien can make the playoffs, right?" Riccard was more calm than Angel and Morris, after all, players have been injured too many times.

'That's the best result, but if you want Damien to recover as well as possible. I suggest you let him play again next season. ”

"Okay, thanks, doctor. Ricard finished and lit a cigarette. A hospital security guard walked up to dissuade him, as the hospital is a smoke-free area.

But Ricard ignored the security guard's warning and took a puff of his own. Now don't say it's a hospital security guard, even if God were standing in front of Ricard, he would have scolded God to the death!

There's no doubt that Lillard is an integral part of the Trail Blazers. And the Trail Blazers are already very tight on the No. 1 pick, and apart from Lillard, there is only one Shabazz Napier available.

Ricard has a headache, and if Lillard can't make the playoffs, it will be a huge loss for the Trail Blazers.

The scariest thing is that Rickard worries that Lillard won't be able to return to his former self.

Take a look at Rose, who joined the Cavaliers with a veteran base salary this year, the champion who entered the league in the same class as Anjie and was the first to taste MVP, can't he go back to the past now?

Rickard shook his head and shook off all those terrible thoughts. In Anjie's Chinese words, this is not a good sign. He should have hoped that Lillard would be well, not thinking about these terrible things......

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That night, the Trail Blazers collectively left the sad place of Toronto overnight and rushed back to Portland. The team doctor of the Trail Blazers stayed behind to take care of Lillard for the time being, and then arranged for a plane back to Portland the next day.

Early the next morning, two NBA officials in suits came to Nell Orsi's office and presented him with a bag of papers.

In this bag of documents, there are the penalty notices and enforcement documents of the Alliance. Orsi glanced at the text on the notice and looked at the two officials across from his desk in surprise.

The official spread his hands and said: "This is the punishment made by Mr. Xiao Hua himself, after all, this matter is indeed a bit too bad." ”

"Okay, I see. "Is there any other way for Nell Orsi to take but to obey?

As the two NBA officials walked out of the office, Nell Orsi suddenly picked up the cup in his hand and slammed it to the ground.

"What a fucking bastard!"

The first of the small pile of documents that Orsi had in hand was a notice of An Jie's punishment.

On the top of the document, the line marked in red font is particularly conspicuous, and it reads: Due to the bad circumstances, he still took the initiative to attack the opponent. The league decided that Anjie will be banned for ten games as a punishment.

It was this simple line of red text that caused Nell Orsi to lose one of his favorite mugs......