Jusuf Nurkic, Portland Trail Blazers (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic returned in the NBA bubble after 17 months away from the game. His comeback couldn’t have gone any better.
Jusuf Nurkic broke his leg in the 2019 season, playing for the Portland Trail Blazers against the Brooklyn Nets. The date this horrific injury happened was 25th March of 2019. On the 31st of July 2020, he returned to the court in a win over the Memphis Grizzlies.
There were a lot of questions around Nurkic’s return.