[20][21] In late November 2016, he was cut by the team. All rights reserved. The ACL’s job is to be one of the knee stabilizers in the anterior-posterior direction, that is preventing the tibia or shin bone from sliding frontwards or backwards in relation to the femur or thigh bone. In the team's final regular season game, he recorded 27 points, a season-high 23 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals in 37 minutes against the Dallas Mavericks on April 14, becoming the first rookie since Joe Smith in 1995–96 to post two 20-20 games in the same season. Knock-kneed types are more dependent on their ACLs than the bow-legged. Medline Plus: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury, Sports Injury Clinic: Torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament / ACL Knee Injury, Slate; No Ligaments, No Problem; Juliet Lapidos; 2009, Elite Soccer Conditioning.com: Soccer Agility Skills and Drills. Blair has been in a constant challenge trying to prove everybody wrong playing with his big heart. Like Blair, he didn’t realize the deficiency until he left college to go professional. As someone who tore his ACL, and goes to Pitt, I'm a huge DeJuan Blair fan. Since Blair lacks ACLs, his quadriceps and hamstring muscles, and the remaining soft tissues in his knee, will need to pick up the slack, as it were, straining harder to stabilize and absorb shocks. There are some players who can function without an ACL and still play effectively, even in the demanding running and cutting sport of soccer. DeJuan Blair è un nuovo giocatore della VL Pesaro, un colpo che, se il ragazzo sta bene fisicamente, può spostare e non poco gli equilibri. Blair led Schenley to the 2007 PIAA Class 4A state championship, the first state title for a City League team since 1978; in the final against Chester, he had 18 points, 23 rebounds and 6 blocked shots. [2], After two surgeries during his high school years, Blair was left without any anterior cruciate ligaments in his knees.[3]. Blair helped the Spurs defeat the Mavericks 4–2 in the first round of the playoffs, only to then go on to lose 4–0 to the Phoenix Suns in the second round. Belief among players is that December 22 start date seems 'inevitable' with vote planned for Thursday or Friday, 'Industry insiders' believe Morey's contract with 76ers tops Phil Jackson's reported 5-yr, $60M deal with Knicks, Philly is 'expected to be interested in and pursue' the Rockets star. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.” Need I say more? First there was his Co-Big East Player of the year Hasheem Thabeet then James Harden, Tyreke Evans, Ricky Rubio then the list goes on and on. Slate relies on advertising to support our journalism. Explainer thanks Walter R. Lowe of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Scott McLean of the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology. [25], On October 20, 2018, Blair was selected by the Austin Spurs in the 2018 NBA G League draft. I've known this for a while because as a UConn fan we played him plenty when we played Pitt. The former University of Pittsburgh star was initially projected as a high pick in the 2009 NBA draft, but he slid to the second round after a physical revealed something unsettling: The player has no anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in either knee—the result of two high school surgeries. [22] In 10 games for Jiangsu, he averaged 24.1 points and 13.6 rebounds per game. ACL 2 . How can Blair play at a professional level without an ACL to call his own?

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