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This is the best of outkick the coverage with Clay Travis on Fox Sports Radio.

We are indeed here in the Geico Outkick studios. Let me go ahead and bring in Chris Manix and talk with him.

Let's start with that injury late last night. Probably a lot of people waking up didn't know about it

to the trailblazers. How big is the injury?

I mean, it's huge.

You know, for context, it reminded me of the injury Paul George suffered a few years ago.

The injury Gordon Hayward suffered a couple of years ago in terms of

severity. It was it was grotesque and

you know, it just if you look at a severely basketball perspective, it

effectively ends the

the blazers chances of doing anything in the postseason.

Nercutures having the best season of his career.

And if you look at the on-off numbers, I mean, the blazers were a different team when when he was on the floor.

So I understand that the playoffs teams tend to play smaller and then you know, a little bit more nimble,

but your Nercut was such a big part of what they do. I mean, this a blazer now become that team that you want to play in the first round.

I'd be surprised they're not out in you know, four or five games.

I want to hit you with this big question. Obviously that's a significant injury and and the trailblazers hopes may well have taken a crippling hit there.

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