I was just saying to my buddy the other day, "the only thing that turns this series around is Porzingis getting a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon"
My friend was telling me it would be a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the ***anterior*** tibialis tendon. He looks like such a dumbass now. What a tool!
Brooo same, I watched Porzingis limping around in Game 2 and thought to myself "Man if this is a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon, then I am throwing hands!!"
I was watchin the game with Bron and he said before the game that the Mavs are gonna be going after Porzingis’ medial retinaculum to make his posterior tibialis tendon dislocate
If I had a nickel for every time Kristaps Porzingis tore his medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon, I'd have one nickel. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened once.
I mean it was pretty obviously a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon, idk why the other guy didn't know that immediately like me and you did.
One day you're just walking around and playing in the NBA finals, the next you have a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon. I hate it when that happens.
The last time me and my kids had a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon, we were at Disney World, and still somehow won an NBA Finals.
Yup, same for my aunt. Complained about her big toe hurting one morning, we took her to the doctor to get checked out that afternoon. Sure enough it was a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon. The next day, dead.
Having Porzingis on your team means you’re gonna learn so much about human anatomy. I’m not gonna front like I know where the medial retinaculum is located 😭
I hope Celtics fans understand why the Mavs had to trade him.
KP can't be your no 2 option. He's never available when you need him.
The Celtics are built to withstand him being injured.
I mean look at the 2021 playoffs, lowkey if Porzingis delivers that Mavs team could have made a run to the WCF. 2020 the team wasn't quite as good, but that year is another reason why they couldn't really rely on him.
He's an extremely talented guy who can quickly become a negative asset in the wrong situation.
For sure. If the Mavs got past the Clippers, they would have gotten past the Jazz and honestly maybe even the Suns in the WCF. That could've been Luka's first trip to the finals at age 22.
as a Mavs fan, i vividly remember him staying out for like close to 2 months the last time he was day to day. he’s a damn warrior so i’m sure he’ll make every effort to play, but his body is just broken. it’s crazy.
>The posterior tibialis tendon is **a strong cord of tissue**. It's one of the most important tendons in your leg. It attaches the posterior tibialis muscle on the back of your calf to the bones on the inside of your foot. It helps support your foot and hold up its arch when you are walking.
Sounds pretty serious.
It’s essentially a wrap around the ankle that holds down and protects the tendons around the ankle joint. Specifically it is a fascia. Picture it as a thin rubber band holding everything together.
It being a medial tear makes the medial muscle group more susceptible to injury (those being the posterior tibialis, flexor digitorum longus, and flexor hallucis longus). Aka the muscles that help flex the foot, big toe, and bring the foot up into planter flexion.
Source: anatomy is the literal core to my profession. Hope that helps. Also for what it’s worth, I don’t think he plays game 3 up 2-0. But wtf do I know
They also said it’s a serious injury, so wondering if they’re saying that just to keep Dallas on its toes and not immediately rule him out.
Sucks man, he was cooking those first 2 games.
the rim protection, the spacing, the post offense. just so much he does that we can’t replace
it’s good that we only need 2 more wins and Horford has been awesome, but if KP isn’t playing then we can’t survive Tatum shooting 32% from the field. he’s gonna have to get his head out of his ass and start hitting some damn shots
He was a huge part of the Celtic's offense. He is simply unguardable. I love Lively and have been incredibly impressed with him, and KP just destroyed him repeatedly.
100% but I think defensively is where they’ll miss him the most. His rim protection has been incredible and really fucking with the Mavs’ offence.
Offensively yeah Dallas had no answer for him, Boston will need Tatum to wake up on the scoring side lol
Yeah you can choose the timeperiod on that page and going back to 2004 it's an all-time high by a huge margin.
Seems like an extremely obscure injury. I certainly don't recall ever hearing it in sports, which is what would likely yield a high volume of search results on a single day.
We really got the KP career arc in 5 days. Incredible 2 way performance in a 1st quarter, fading away to a 2 point performance for an entire half, tweaking his knee, then forcing his fans to google whatever weird injury he has again before praying for his return.
I did not miss this at all. Poor guy can’t catch a single break when it comes to these weird landings
I legit thought he had top 5 potential when he was on the knicks. Sucks that he is so injury prone but that is 7'3 players for you. Hopefully wemby can somehow dodge this issue
It’s easy to see in hindsight how Mavs trading a haul for him wouldn’t work out but him playing near his peak with today’s Luka would be insane. KP was amazing on that knicks teams and I’m sad his injuries will leave a big “what if” page in his career.
Seems like nearly every really big guy has a 'what if' like this. The body just can't handle after a certain point. Even tall guys who had good careers like Yao should have had better ones.
Past 7'1 or 7'2, things just don't work right. Hopefully improvements in conditioning, etc, help Wemby and future huge guys avoid this fate.
He’s 7’3 and very mobile for that height. That set of traits makes him an incredible basketball player but it also makes him super injury prone. You can’t have the good without the bad.
LOL at Shams copying and pasting the gibberish diagnosis instead of just posting the press release he took it from:
https://x.com/TimBontemps/status/1800595061291491829
It is well documented that Shams does not exactly have a stellar grasp of the English language: [https://defector.com/presenting-the-2021-shamsy](https://defector.com/presenting-the-2021-shamsy)
Dislocation of the posterior tibial tendon has rarely been reported in the English literature. The most common mechanism is a traumatic injury. We present two patients with a traumatic dislocation. One patient was delayed in presentation to the treating physician by seven months. The second patient presented within one week. Both underwent surgical stabilization with repair of the torn retinaculum and deepening of the groove posterior to the medial malleolus. They have both returned to their pre-injury level of activity without any recurrence of dislocation.
[Best I could find lol](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1888604/)
Crystal Porzingus. Its crazy coz how impactful he is. Expect Mavs to attack the paint more effectively without him.
Tibialis posterior muscle is a foot muscle for plantar flexio and inversion accdng to doc google. Must be painful
Asked my wife who has a kinesiology degree:
"It’s the webbing that basically keeps everything where it should be in your ankle. There’s so many tendons/ligaments/vessels it’s like Saran Wrap kind of. Medial means inner ankle. Posterior tibialis tendon attaches some foot muscle to the tibia I would assume"
I can't share images here but we have a medical atlas at home and it's basically like a saran wrap over the tendons that holds tendons in place.
Saw an orthopedic specialist saying that there's a solid chance a brace or just some very tight taping can provide enough support to get him up and down the court in a relatively safe fashion.
I'm a medical student and I took anatomy like a year ago, probably dissected one of these unknowingly, and I don't know what it means either lmao.
/rj Hmm darthsquidward15, why don't you read up on this tonight and present this on rounds tomorrow?
Disappointing for him that he got hurt again. To be honest, he played like he was 100% healthy. Gotta do what it takes to win but maybe he wasn’t 100% and should’ve eased back into it
Medial Retinaculum is the tendon attaching your quad to the outside portion of your patellar tendon (the band that keeps your knee cap in place). It’s a soft tissue injury.
No!!! Not a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon!
I was just saying to my buddy the other day, "the only thing that turns this series around is Porzingis getting a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon"
My friend was telling me it would be a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the ***anterior*** tibialis tendon. He looks like such a dumbass now. What a tool!
Noooooo!! (I have no idea what language you're speaking)
It's the leg. You don't even have to look at words for a Porzingis injury. It's always the legs
This the NBA, it’s almost always the leg
Literally was hoping it wasn't that
Brooo same, I watched Porzingis limping around in Game 2 and thought to myself "Man if this is a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon, then I am throwing hands!!"
I was watchin the game with Bron and he said before the game that the Mavs are gonna be going after Porzingis’ medial retinaculum to make his posterior tibialis tendon dislocate
If I had a nickel for every time Kristaps Porzingis tore his medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon, I'd have one nickel. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened once.
I called it when he looked down around that area when it happened.
I mean it was pretty obviously a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon, idk why the other guy didn't know that immediately like me and you did.
One day you're just walking around and playing in the NBA finals, the next you have a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon. I hate it when that happens.
The last time me and my kids had a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon, we were at Disney World, and still somehow won an NBA Finals.
Why would he not think its a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon? Is he a fookin idiot?
That's so horrible... my old man went the same way.
Yup, same for my aunt. Complained about her big toe hurting one morning, we took her to the doctor to get checked out that afternoon. Sure enough it was a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon. The next day, dead.
I just fell to my medial retinaculums in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot
I said this out loud and summoned a demon
Having Porzingis on your team means you’re gonna learn so much about human anatomy. I’m not gonna front like I know where the medial retinaculum is located 😭
I’m a doctor. It’s in your ass.
retinaculum, damn near killed um
Okay, follow up question…how did Kristaps Porzingis’ medial retinaculum end up inside of u/BlackPower2457’s ass? And how do we get it back?
Dude singlehandedly made me want to go into medicine 😭
*I can fix him*
I hope Celtics fans understand why the Mavs had to trade him. KP can't be your no 2 option. He's never available when you need him. The Celtics are built to withstand him being injured.
I mean look at the 2021 playoffs, lowkey if Porzingis delivers that Mavs team could have made a run to the WCF. 2020 the team wasn't quite as good, but that year is another reason why they couldn't really rely on him. He's an extremely talented guy who can quickly become a negative asset in the wrong situation.
For sure. If the Mavs got past the Clippers, they would have gotten past the Jazz and honestly maybe even the Suns in the WCF. That could've been Luka's first trip to the finals at age 22.
Does he just have weak bones or something? I’ve never seen a player so injured
He’s a super mobile 7’3” dude. Human bodies are not simply built for that
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We'll see if his Dhalsim-like flexibility will stave it off
Also the fact that he only weighs 210 probably helps, not as much force on the joints (notice KD stays pretty healthy too).
Jesus fucking Christ I forgot he’s only 210. Boston Scott (NFL RB) is 5’6” and ways 10 pounds less than Wemby.
He doesn't weigh 210 anymore. That was his draft measurements, he is 230lbs now.
Bro is a pitbull
Also not having to jump high very often. He gets a lot of blocks and dunks on his tippy toes.
No he said human bodies
why God
god limited our bodies to make basketball more balanced
these patch updates are brutal
How many human are athletic at 7’3 lol. He’s not supposed to move like he does that’s the problem
That tendon or whatever probably is unrelated to the strength of his bones but in general, yes.
This sounds really bad because it’s a lot of words I don’t understand together
He is apparently considered day-to-day
Like he might die any day?
Porzings DNP (died)
(Did Not Prosper)
Dirt Nap (for) Porzingis
Yeah, either the injury will get him or he'll be sent to the glue fact- nice farm upstate where all the other 7'3" Latvians run free and play.
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Either he makes a full recovery before game 3 or he's a goner. Nothing in-between
Tingus "Old Yeller" Pingus
Tatum with a tear in his eye holding a t-shirt gun
Day to day for Porzingis is like a year
as a Mavs fan, i vividly remember him staying out for like close to 2 months the last time he was day to day. he’s a damn warrior so i’m sure he’ll make every effort to play, but his body is just broken. it’s crazy.
He was mostly healthy all year too, just sucks
but really aren't we all day-to-day?
Easy Shanahan
Since you’re saying a bunch of words I don’t understand, I’m going to take it as a sign of disrespect
This ya boy?
BOTH YALL GETTING CLAPPED UP “What did I do?” IT DONT FUCKIN MATTER!
WATCH YA MOUTH
WE REP THE SAME SMART TECH
Aim high, Willis!
watch ya mouf, and help me with the prognosis
You wrote: "She was hurtin' for a squirtin'." You wrote that?
This is honestly my favorite Kevin Hart role.
Yeah what part of your body is a Porzingis
It’s right next to the Kristaps
All i know is torn and dislocation followed by long words is never a good thing
The discontinuous flabber tendon has tocumed the pariloctus joint of the woptisertus muscle
What in the fuck even is that
connects the tingus to the pingus
which is part of the lativia
Which resides in the Ligma
Many people know what the Achilles tendon is but do you know where the Bophades tendon is?
it connects Bophades nuts to your chin?
[Dab](https://youtu.be/KZfq9amWaJg?si=CpOhwRZwd7_vKz-W)
Oh my god it’s the left phalange
THERE IS NO PHALANGE
Omg he doesnt even have a phalange?!
Kristingus Porpingus
>The posterior tibialis tendon is **a strong cord of tissue**. It's one of the most important tendons in your leg. It attaches the posterior tibialis muscle on the back of your calf to the bones on the inside of your foot. It helps support your foot and hold up its arch when you are walking. Sounds pretty serious.
THEY TOLD ME HE WAS FINE WHAT THE FUCK
Sorry, I was praying for your downfall but not like this
On the plus side My Al Horford finals MVP dream is once again alive.
The tweet reads like the injury is to a related part of the knee that opens this part up to damage
Yeah a 2-for-1 kinda deal.
It’s essentially a wrap around the ankle that holds down and protects the tendons around the ankle joint. Specifically it is a fascia. Picture it as a thin rubber band holding everything together. It being a medial tear makes the medial muscle group more susceptible to injury (those being the posterior tibialis, flexor digitorum longus, and flexor hallucis longus). Aka the muscles that help flex the foot, big toe, and bring the foot up into planter flexion. Source: anatomy is the literal core to my profession. Hope that helps. Also for what it’s worth, I don’t think he plays game 3 up 2-0. But wtf do I know
Physical therapist spotted👀
Daddy chill
WHAT THE HELL IS EVEN THAT
Idk but Celtics said it’s day to day
They also said it’s a serious injury, so wondering if they’re saying that just to keep Dallas on its toes and not immediately rule him out. Sucks man, he was cooking those first 2 games.
I think it’s that. He’s out.
Clippers did the same in 2021 with Kawhi. He was only ruled out for good once they got knocked out.
100% changes the complexion of this series. the Mavericks had no answer for him
His rim presence I believe is gonna be the thing that's insanely missed wow
the rim protection, the spacing, the post offense. just so much he does that we can’t replace it’s good that we only need 2 more wins and Horford has been awesome, but if KP isn’t playing then we can’t survive Tatum shooting 32% from the field. he’s gonna have to get his head out of his ass and start hitting some damn shots
Yeah you're 100% right. He adds so much to this team, people in this thread seem to not watch if they think this isn't a big loss.
He was a huge part of the Celtic's offense. He is simply unguardable. I love Lively and have been incredibly impressed with him, and KP just destroyed him repeatedly.
100% but I think defensively is where they’ll miss him the most. His rim protection has been incredible and really fucking with the Mavs’ offence. Offensively yeah Dallas had no answer for him, Boston will need Tatum to wake up on the scoring side lol
Probably not It seriously hampers your knee stability, one bad move and it can get so much worse
Brian Sutterer is probably breaking it down as we speak
Truly a unicorn. He’s even inventing new injuries now
Will go down in history for a singular game 1 performance lol
Finals MVP and had 1 good game
Google searches for retinaculum at a historic high right now.
I'd love to see the spike in the trends graph for June 2024 lol
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Retinaculum&date=now%201-d&geo=US&hl=en you got it
lol I think it’s safe to conclude this is an all time high for retinaculum
Yeah you can choose the timeperiod on that page and going back to 2004 it's an all-time high by a huge margin. Seems like an extremely obscure injury. I certainly don't recall ever hearing it in sports, which is what would likely yield a high volume of search results on a single day.
Most of them in the Boston region as well. Crazy how we can see this type of data in real time
I love how you can see Massachusetts being basically like “oh fuck oh fuck” in pure data lol
The top six states are just all of New England, desperately trying to figure out what the fuck this means.
Even funnier. If you change it to worldwide Latvia is the second country on there
Slovenia is 4th lol
lol Latvians getting ready for bed got hit with the breaking news notification. They’re now top higher than the USA
[The map of interest is funny too](https://i.imgur.com/04qYxWw.png)
what the fuck does that mean Kobe Bryant
You’re welcome.
It means his legs are the same animal, but a different beast
We really got the KP career arc in 5 days. Incredible 2 way performance in a 1st quarter, fading away to a 2 point performance for an entire half, tweaking his knee, then forcing his fans to google whatever weird injury he has again before praying for his return. I did not miss this at all. Poor guy can’t catch a single break when it comes to these weird landings
Sucks because he is a great player.
I legit thought he had top 5 potential when he was on the knicks. Sucks that he is so injury prone but that is 7'3 players for you. Hopefully wemby can somehow dodge this issue
It’s easy to see in hindsight how Mavs trading a haul for him wouldn’t work out but him playing near his peak with today’s Luka would be insane. KP was amazing on that knicks teams and I’m sad his injuries will leave a big “what if” page in his career.
Seems like nearly every really big guy has a 'what if' like this. The body just can't handle after a certain point. Even tall guys who had good careers like Yao should have had better ones. Past 7'1 or 7'2, things just don't work right. Hopefully improvements in conditioning, etc, help Wemby and future huge guys avoid this fate.
Wemby is tall enough that his feet don't need to leave the floor at all, so all good
Yep, he was so good for us when healthy. Really sucks for him.
He’s 7’3 and very mobile for that height. That set of traits makes him an incredible basketball player but it also makes him super injury prone. You can’t have the good without the bad.
Can someone explain this where I can understand it?
tingus hurt
Is the pingus ok?
you cant operate the pingus without the tingus, dumbass
LOL at Shams copying and pasting the gibberish diagnosis instead of just posting the press release he took it from: https://x.com/TimBontemps/status/1800595061291491829
It is well documented that Shams does not exactly have a stellar grasp of the English language: [https://defector.com/presenting-the-2021-shamsy](https://defector.com/presenting-the-2021-shamsy)
a retina is a thing in your eye so he's gonna have to wear a monocle I think
Dislocation of the posterior tibial tendon has rarely been reported in the English literature. The most common mechanism is a traumatic injury. We present two patients with a traumatic dislocation. One patient was delayed in presentation to the treating physician by seven months. The second patient presented within one week. Both underwent surgical stabilization with repair of the torn retinaculum and deepening of the groove posterior to the medial malleolus. They have both returned to their pre-injury level of activity without any recurrence of dislocation. [Best I could find lol](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1888604/)
I found a result that says, and I'm quoting, "MPFL injuries are more common in females..."
IS KRISTAPS PORZINGIS THE FIRST ACTIVE TRANS ATHLETE IN A MAJOR AMERICAN SPORT? MY COLUMN:
Better learn to speak emotional intelligence buddy
Dislocation of a tendon is insane it’s the first time I’ve heard it ngl
Shams said it was a rare injury not related to the calf
It’s actually Celtics PR that said it, Shams just posted those exact same words 30 seconds after Celtics posted it.
Damn, this guy and injuries. It’s like he sacrificed his health to some god for something in return.
"God, please give me 7' of height" "Granted" "Yay - oh shi my leg hurts lol"
Bro forgot to wish for the required secondary powers
It's like asking for superspeed but not the superdurability required to survive your body moving at near light-speed velocities.
Crystal Porzingus. Its crazy coz how impactful he is. Expect Mavs to attack the paint more effectively without him. Tibialis posterior muscle is a foot muscle for plantar flexio and inversion accdng to doc google. Must be painful
The world isn’t ready for our second 7ft white guy to dominate this series.
Bah gawd, that’s Luke Kornet’s music
That’s a white American 7 footer, lacks the dog of the Eastern European white 7 footers
Not gonna lie, if that happens I certainly won't be ready for it
Asked my wife who has a kinesiology degree: "It’s the webbing that basically keeps everything where it should be in your ankle. There’s so many tendons/ligaments/vessels it’s like Saran Wrap kind of. Medial means inner ankle. Posterior tibialis tendon attaches some foot muscle to the tibia I would assume" I can't share images here but we have a medical atlas at home and it's basically like a saran wrap over the tendons that holds tendons in place.
Will one tight motherfucking sock hold that shit in place?
Saw an orthopedic specialist saying that there's a solid chance a brace or just some very tight taping can provide enough support to get him up and down the court in a relatively safe fashion.
Can you ask her how much duct tape and ibuprofen I need to buy for him?
Oh, just turn him off and back on again.
Reddit doctors, please talk me off this ledge
I'm an actual doctor and even I don't know what this means 😭
Medial retinaculum is darthsquidward15 father
Me to myself: Get ready to learn Netters Anatomy buddy
#THIEME4LYFE
Did you graduate from I Promise Medical School???
I'm a medical student and I took anatomy like a year ago, probably dissected one of these unknowingly, and I don't know what it means either lmao. /rj Hmm darthsquidward15, why don't you read up on this tonight and present this on rounds tomorrow?
Giving me PTSD
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT
IVE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF TORN MEDIAL RETINACULUM
Those are a lot of words to still be listed as day to day. What does it mean
Porzingus is the only motherfucker that gets a medical diagnosis that sounds like lyrics from a Rush song
WHAT
Bro tore something that was previously undiscovered
they discovered it because it was somewhere it shouldn't have been
Oh man that’s a lot of words
Al Horford come on down!
So he’s not playing again in the series?
Day to day
"Day-to-day" or "Game 3 of the Finals day-to-day where we make you think it's day-to-day but ends up being 6-8 weeks?"
I think "day-to-day he's out of game 3 and if we lose he's back for game 4 and if he dies he dies".
I've seen this story, a few times in fact
Should we tell him?
The Kawhi special
More like week to week with all this downtime between games.
I mean honestly they got 2 wins out of him. That's all they really needed in the playoffs.
Tf this mean
That's a lot of doctor words so you know this is bad
Man scored more than minutes played and his body shut that shit down wow
TLDR: his knee has an oweee. He’ll probably sit a game and play the next if they lose game 3
I’ve played pickup on knee owee standing in the corner chucking threes so in conclusion he’s fine
Yeah but are you like 7'3'?
For the sake of my argument, yes
Oh word thanks king
Disappointing for him that he got hurt again. To be honest, he played like he was 100% healthy. Gotta do what it takes to win but maybe he wasn’t 100% and should’ve eased back into it
Supposedly it’s unrelated to the calf injury according to the med reports but idk
In English please
I feel so bad for KP man. The dude can't catch a break.
What? No idea what that is, but anything torn doesn't sound good.
Medial Retinaculum is the tendon attaching your quad to the outside portion of your patellar tendon (the band that keeps your knee cap in place). It’s a soft tissue injury.