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‘I thought the air bubble in my shoe popped’: Chet Holmgren talks about Lisfranc injury

“Looking back now, call me crazy for playing defense in a Pro-Am game I guess, but that’s just kinda who I am — competing and playing basketball the right way.”

Nearly seven months after suffering a season-ending Lisfranc injury in an August Seattle Pro-Am game, Chet Holmgren has gained some perspective on and talked about the freak occurrence in his latest YouTube video.

Defending a LeBron James drive, Holmgren landed awkwardly on his right foot on the slippery court and immediately asked out of the game. The game was called off shortly afterward due to unsafe conditions.

Holmgren noted he initially didn’t know the injury was serious enough to be a season-ender, but he was concerned with a pop he felt in his foot and immediately called his agent to get medical scanning done.

“We go down and back, down and back three times and then boom — one wrong step and a whole lot changed from there.

There was a tipped pass to a steal or something like that, and LeBron ends up getting the ball. It’s any normal fast break. He takes a dribble and then tries to cut across and then finish on the other side. I just remember backpedaling and jumping to contest. LeBron misses the shot. And the ball’s going down the other way. Now it’s like a fas tbreak the other way. I’m backing up — at this point, I’m kinda sliding sideways and I tried to go forward. I take like three or four steps and I’m just like, ‘Something just feels weird.’ I thought the air bubble in my shoe popped or something because I’m not feeling any pain right now. I’m telling the coach, ‘Sub me out real quick.’

I’m on to the bench, I take my shoe off and I’m feeling my shoe. (There was) nothing wrong with my shoe. So first thing I do is I hop from the bench down to the little locker room area I’m down there trying to walk on my foot and it’s just not what it’s supposed to be.

At this point, I’m calling my agent and I’m like, ‘It’s not good. I got to go to the hospital right now and get images and see what this is.’

I’ve never been injured in my life (and) never missed more than a week of basketball with any injury in my entire life. I didn’t know what it could be (or) what this means. I was just down there.

Looking back now, call me crazy for playing defense in a Pro-Am game I guess, but that’s just kinda who I am — competing and playing basketball the right way.

I believe if you’re going to (B.S.) the game (then) there’s no point in going out and playing at all. If I could redo the play, I’d do it exactly the same. I play defense how I normally would throughout my entire life. I’ve taken — who knows how many millions of steps —  in my basketball career and I guess I just took one wrong one (that) didn’t turn out in my favor.”

The full video can be watched below with highlights from his summer scrummages that featured him going 1-on-1 against greats including Kevin Durant, who’s a known huge fan of Holmgren.

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What is a Lisfranc injury? Quick overview of the rare basketball injury

Here’s a quick overview of the injury.

The NBA world woke up to the shocking news this past Thursday morning that No. 2 pick Chet Holmgren was going to miss the entire 2022-23 season due to a Lisfranc injury.

Holmgren suffered the injury during the Seattle Pro-Am game he attended the previous weekend.

The news demoralized the Oklahoma City Thunder as the team and fanbase were excited to see their top draft pick play. The selection of Holmgren gave the fans a jolt of energy and excitement.

But a Lisfranc injury manifested the worst of the worst-case scenarios when Holmgren got hurt. Which begs the question, what is a Lisfranc injury?

As it’s been said multiple times by now, a Lisfranc injury is extremely rare for basketball players and much more common in football. Let’s take a quick look at what exactly this injury is and what it means for Holmgren’s short-term and long-term future.

(Editor’s Note: None of this should be taken as serious medical advice or knowledge. This is just surface-level information on the injury)

Panthers’ rookie QB Matt Corral’s Lisfranc injury, explained

You may have heard of Lisfranc injuries before, but do you know what they are?

On Saturday, Carolina Panthers coach Matt Rhule announced that rookie quarterback Matt Corral’s 2022 season was likely over after he exited Friday night’s loss to the Patriots early.

Corral’s foot was stepped on, and coaches suspect that the third-round pick out of Ole Miss suffered what would be a season-ending Lisfranc injury.

You may have heard of a Lisfranc injury before. It’s what held out Jacksonville Jaguars running back Travis Etienne during his rookie season last fall, and it’s what limited third-overall pick Derek Stingley Jr. to just three games during his final campaign at LSU in 2021.

But what, exactly, is a Lisfranc injury?

Most football-related injuries are relatively self-explanatory. A broken finger or sprained ankle is an easy enough concept to grasp, and the alphabet soup that is the ACL, MCL, PCL and LCL can be understood basically as the ligaments that keep your knee from bending in an unholy fashion. Tearing one of them is no bueno and can keep you out of action for a lengthy period of time.

But Lisfranc injuries are less intuitive.

As defined by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons:

“Lisfranc (midfoot) injuries result if bones in the midfoot are broken or ligaments that support the midfoot are torn.”

Essentially, the five long bones that make up your foot — the metatarsals, if we feel like being fancy — are held together by what is called the Lisfranc joint complex, named after 19th-century French army surgeon Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin, one of the early observers of such injuries.

These joints keep the bones in the middle part of the foot in place, but they can be easily damaged, and Lisfranc injuries are common in athletes, especially football and soccer players, when another player steps on their foot. This is exactly what happened to Corral.

Considering the stress football players put on their feet, a Lisfranc injury is no joke and can have quite a lengthy recovery process that extends to six months or even a year, depending on the severity. If surgery is required, patients generally can’t bare weight on the injured foot for a six-to-eight week period following surgery.

This is why Corral’s outlook in 2022 isn’t very optimistic, and it could be quite some time until he’s allowed to practice at full speed once again.

But at least now, when you see Lisfranc injuries in the news, you can impress everyone around you by using the word “metatarsals.”

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