Gordon Heyward warms up before his first game with the Boston Celtics against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Oct. 17. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.
Former Butler star Gordon Hayward took a fall with 6:49 left in the first quarter of his first game with the Boston Celtics. He got bumped by Lebron James going up for an alley-oop and came down awkwardly. Very awkwardly.
The result was a gruesome leg injury that included a fracture of Gordon’s tibia and the dislocation of his ankle.
It resembled Kevin Ware’s injury in the 2013 Elite Eight, and it sent a shiver down your spine like the leg injury Joe Theismann suffered while playing for the Washington Redskins in 1985.