jueves, 19 de enero de 2017

Ep.13: An Unexpected Event

A lot was going on in the league after only one month of competition. Some teams were beginning to look like serious title contenders as other teams struggled for chemistry with all their stars not getting along.

One of those teams was the Phoenix Suns. After losing against "The Brotherhood", the team were now standing outside of the playoff picture, and were below 50%. Although they had an amazing offensive style of playing, their lack of defence and bench depth were causing a lot of troubles for the Arizona team.

After having a day off, the Suns were ready to play again, this time against the Houston Rockets. It was being a "normal" match, with Houston relying on the Rondo-Worthy-Olajuwon trio. While leading Phoenix's comeback efforts, Steve Nash saw a clear path to the rim and didn't hesitate.

Emeka Okafor jumped in order to contest the layup, even though Nash managed to get an and-one play. But after he went down, he couldn't get up. Everyone immediately realised that something was wrong.

Nash had to sit out for the rest of the game. The Suns lost their momentum and finally ended up losing the match by 13 points. However, the big news were that, even though "Age Away" was supposed to prevent players from getting injured, one of the league's best player was now facing a really important one, which could send him out of the courts for almost a month.

The following day, the lab responsible of the development of "Age Away" released a statement.
"The medicine (Age Away) does prevent players from getting injured. Although, after around one month since the first dose, its effects slowly weaken, and thus some players may get injured. It all depends on how well the organism process the medicine."
The statement soon rose a lot of concerns. Some teams gave players with a long injury record a second chance, as the medicine was supposed to prevent those players from getting injured again. So, teams like the Golden State Warriors (who acquired Brandon Roy), the Miami Heat (with Greg Oden), the Sacramento Kings (who had Bill Walton) and a lot of others were now on the line, praying for their players not to get injured.


Would players who saw their careers ruined by injuries lose their second chance because the so said "saviour" medicine could fail?

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