There are few NBA players that have dealt with worse injury luck recently than Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic. Dating back to his horrific leg injury back in 2019, the Bosnian Beast has played in just 39 regular season games over the course of two seasons. Just this year, he’s dealt with a broken wrist, a calf strain, and knee inflammation. All of those injuries forced him to miss at least some time, although the knee inflammation was reportedly not too serious.
It’s a bummer that the past two years have been so injury-riddled because both before and in between those injuries we’ve seen glimpses of just how good Nurk can be.