Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard had surgical procedure Friday to restore the left Achilles tendon he tore Sunday in a playoff loss to the Indiana Pacers.
Lillard was helped off the court midway through the first quarter of the Bucks’ 129-103 loss in Sport 4 of their first-round playoff sequence with the Pacers. The Bucks introduced Monday that the seven-time All-NBA guard had torn his Achilles tendon.
The Bucks performed with out Lillard in Sport 5 on Tuesday and misplaced 119-118 in additional time at Indiana, enabling the Pacers to clinch the best-of-seven sequence.
Lillard performed three video games in that sequence, as he made a remarkably quick return from deep vein thrombosis — an irregular clot inside a vessel the place the congealing of blood blocks the circulation by way of it on the way in which again to the center — in his proper calf.
After lacking the Bucks’ final 14 regular-season video games, Lillard was taken off blood-thinning medicine and cleared to renew full basketball exercise. Lillard missed Sport 1 of the Pacers sequence to work his method again after which returned for Sport 2.
Lillard, 34, ranked tenth within the NBA in scoring (24.9) and assists (7.1) this season whereas incomes his ninth All-Star Sport choice.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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