At different points in the same game, the Phoenix Suns starting power forward Jae Crowder and backup point guard Cameron Payne both went down in heaps under the basket after a driving layup, only to come up lame with a wrist injury to their non-shooting hand.
Cameron Payne stayed in the game for a bit after his fall, but Jae Crowder immediately curled into a ball, then hopped up and sprinted off the court back to the locker room before even David Crewe, the Suns head trainer, could come over to look at him.
“It’s tough,” Chris Paul said later, of seeing two of his teammates go down in the same game.