Don’t worry, Lonnie Walker’s injury isn’t too gruesome on the surface. I don’t generally show the really bad ones. Of course, the non-gruesome ones are sometimes the worst, and the fact that this was a non-contact injury followed by him limping all over the place until finally limping his way to the locker room while looking really sad is not a good sign. At least with more dramatic ligamental pandemonium of the knee, you kinda know what happened as soon as it happened. With this, we just have to wait for updates. Perhaps by the time you are seeing this there will be an update. I am writing this from a position of pure ignorance (which is actually the normal state of my writing, funnily enough).
I don’t get why knees had to be designed so flimsily anyway. Evolution has had untold millions of years to come up with a really sweet and foolproof design for the knee, and this is what we get? A bunch of ligaments criss-crossing each other all over the place with menisci just randomly placed everywhere and the whole thing encased in the most fragile assemblage of bone and muscle ever conceived? There is no god, but if there was, I’d totally be taking him to task for such a bungled design. Knees work well enough during normal use, I guess, but to be really safe with them you’re better off not moving at all. The second you move funny or something hits it weird, all bets are off. You get up to go the fridge, you trip over your cat, and the next thing you know, you’re looking down at your lower leg and the whole thing is pointing the opposite way it should.
If Walker is injured for an extended period of time (or even if he isn’t), I don’t see any reason why they can’t lop off the whole problematic leg and give him a prosthesis. I just looked at my calendar, and the year is 2019, and it’s high time we started moving past our clunky and inefficient bodies of flesh and into a shiny metallic future of man-made bodies. It’s gonna happen at some point, so we might as well get moving now. The NBA is well positioned in this respect; they’ve got tons of money, no ethical qualms about blurring the line between man and machine, and an incentive to make their basketball players as good as possible.