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Jalen Williams of the Oklahoma City Thunder was stretchered off the court Sunday night after suffering a gruesome lower-leg injury, and the basketball world is holding its breath. The Thunder entered this season hungry after falling short of a title repeat, but losing their star could force a serious reckoning with that championship timeline.
Meanwhile, there's more knee trouble in the NBA — this time at Madison Square Garden, where Orlando Magic guard Jalen Suggs was helped off the court after a non-contact knee injury on a routine fastbreak layup. His right knee buckled hard on landing in the fourth quarter of a one-eleven to one-oh-two Magic win over the Knicks. The win matters, but right now the only number anyone in Orlando cares about is how many weeks he'll miss.
On the football side, a story you couldn't script — Atlanta Falcons rookie linebacker Kendal Daniels left the field on a stretcher just seven days ago, and this Sunday he walked off a hero after Atlanta upset the previously undefeated San Francisco forty-Niners twenty-nine to twenty. Daniels called it the craziest week of his life, and honestly, it's hard to argue with him.
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