Late Wednesday evening in Sacramento, Rudy Gay crashed to the floor after sustaining an apparent non-contact injury and had to be helped back to the locker room. Soon thereafter, the dreaded news reverberated throughout all social media channels: a torn Achilles tendon.
For the Kings, this could be a devastating blow from several angles, but for our purposes, we’ll only focus on one: the realistic end of a potential run for the 8th seed in the Western Conference.
If you’ve managed to glance at the standings at anytime over the last month, there’s no avoiding the logjam of teams battling for the final playoff spot: currently four squads sit 1.