There is a brotherhood in the NBA. Players may be on 30 teams and have differing levels of experience and skills but the number of men who’ve worn an NBA jersey over the past 75 years is in the low thousands.
And within that larger brotherhood are smaller ones like those who’ve gone through traumatic injury, like a ruptured achilles. On Thursday, Alex Schiffer writes about how Kevin Durant has become the leader of that specific brotherhood, encouraging players — and not just NBA players — as they deal with the physical burdens and mental anxiety of a long rehab, with no certainty that they’ll return to form.