As Guerschon Yabusele settled onto a courtside chair next to me within the Sixers’ practice facility last December, I couldn’t help but notice a sizable scratch on his neck — the price of doing business when you stand 6-foot-8 and weigh 260 pounds, and you make your living jostling with other large men within a 94-by-50-foot rectangle.
By his recollection, the wound had been incurred in a game two or three weeks earlier.
“It was crazy, because I didn’t see,” he said. “And then I look in the mirror, and it was red, but like, really open.