Victor Oladipo Injury Update

On January 24th Indiana Pacers guard Victor Oladipo suffered a right knee injury during the second quarter against the Toronto Raptors . Oladipo was racing back to defend a transition break and collapsed as he closed on Pascal Siakam.

The severity was evident almost immediately as trainers draped a towel over the leg and players from both teams surrounded Oladipo while he was down. No replays were shown on the video screen that stretches from free-throw line to free-throw line, and fans began chanting Oladipo's name. Later that night the Pacers staff sent out and injury update to say that Oladipo was going to get an MRI in the morning they told everyone it was a Right knee injury. Results came in that Thursday and we found out that he ruptured quadriceps tendon in his right knee. It's the same injury that effectively ended Charles Barkley's career when he was with Houston in 1999.

This devastating injury puts him out for the rest of the year we don’t know how long it would take him to recover from this the doctors said it would of been better if he tore his ACL then ruptured his quadricep tendon. The doctors also mentioned how shocked they are of him even suffering from such a rare injury. The doctors also said “generally people who have quadriceps tendon ruptures are older folks. For whatever reason, with people younger than 40, the patellar tendon, which is below the kneecap, is the the more likely of the two to sustain an injury. That's the compelling thing about Oladipo's injury. He's a young man in the prime of his athletic career. He's just not in the normal range where we see a lot of these injuries”.

    Hearing that is really concerning for his and his teams future, Oladipo had been averaging 18.8 points, 5.6 rebounds, 5.2 assists and 1.7 steals in 31.9 minutes this season now that he’s gone their playoff chances are most likely going to end as well. The Pacers with Oladipo were the third seed in the east let’s see if the pacers can pick up the slack as a team and learn how to adapt without there leading contributor.