Dr. Soppe weighs on Piston’s star guard ahead of NBA playoffs
Article link: Jaden Ivey injury update: Will he return for Pistons in NBA playoffs?
Will Jaden Ivey return this season from his injury to play in the NBA playoffs with the Detroit Pistons?
That’s now the big question with less than two weeks to go before the start of the first round.
The Pistons on Friday clinched a playoff berth for the first time since 2019 and will either be the 6-seed playing at the 3-seed New York Knicks or the 5-seed at likely the 4-seed Indiana Pacers.
Ivey has been out for more than three months since undergoing surgery a day after fracturing his left fibula — a major bone in the lower-leg — after he was upended on a loose ball play on New Year’s Day.
A typical recovery for an athlete with Ivey’s injury is four to six months.
“It takes usually around two-and-a-half, three months for the bone to heal completely,” Dr. Clint Soppe, a sports medicine doctor at Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles and orthopedic consultant for the MLS’ LA Galaxy, told the Free Press in early January. “But then to rehab all the way back takes another, you’re looking at four to six months typically.”
