A little over two years ago, Gordon Hayward was on the floor in Cleveland with his left foot pointed in the wrong direction from the rest of his left leg. That injury, only 5:15 into Hayward’s first game with the Boston Celtics, not only wrecked his season, but left his entire career in doubt.
Over the course of 2017 and for most of 2018, everyone who watched the Celtics became homegrown experts in analyzing how someone walked, and eventually how they ran. We read everything we could about broken bones and dislocated ankles.