Nurkic had a “lower-energy” fracture ... leg as they can tolerate to expedite healing (Bone 2011). The key is to load bones to a healthy degree to make them stronger while avoiding injury.

Portland star guard Damian Lillard equated Nurkic's injury to the gruesome broken leg that Paul George sustained in 2014 at a USA Basketball scrimmage. Lillard said of Nurkic, "I saw him hit the ...

Most encouraging, Nurkic said, is that his leg has been “pain-free” for six months ... it (looked), to kind of get away with the bone broken. It’s going to heal back and I’ll be ...

The injury was so jarring, the first people to reach Nurkic draped a towel over his leg to cover it from view. His leg was put in an air cast, and Nurkic was stretchered to the locker room.

The Blazers lost Nurkic to a scary leg injury which ended his season on March ... “I wish I could play with my broken leg. I would go out there right now and get hurt again if I could.” ...

Nurkic has been out since he suffered a non-displaced right leg fibular fracture in late March. Before he was sidelined for the remainder of the regular season, though, Nurkic was a revelation ...