CJ McCollum’s Career Year Hits A Setback
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
During the first month of the NBA season, CJ McCollum was well on his way to a career year for the Portland Trail Blazers. But this week, his season ran into a major setback with the news that he sustained a fractured foot. Today, The Athletic’s Jason Quick on how three conversations had the 29-year-old playing the best basketball of his life before the injury, and where McCollum and the Blazers go from here.
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| 0:46.2 | For the first month of the season, CJ McCollum was putting up huge numbers for the Portland |
| 0:50.7 | Trail Blazers, but this week, his career year ran into a roadblock. |
| 0:56.2 | He suffered initially what was described as a foot-spray, but on additional imaging, |
| 1:01.9 | the Trail Blazers announced that there's actually a fracture there. |
| 1:04.8 | Today, the athletics Jason Quick on how three conversations helped McCollum start playing |
| 1:09.8 | the best basketball of his life, whether the Blazers can hold it together while he's |
| 1:13.5 | out, and how he'll bounce back. |
| 1:16.4 | It's definitely a setback, and I think it'll play on his mind just because of how good |
| 1:21.0 | a season he was having, but he will be very determined because he has identified the |
| 1:26.9 | path he wants to take in his career and where he wants to end up. |
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| 1:42.7 | It felt like something great was happening. |
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