Thursday night edition of the dunked on basketball podcasts always fun to finish out this first week of the regular season

We're trying to inject as many of these games into our veins as possible

Jump to conclusions about about how players look

We'll try to not do that too hard limited on our our observations to these games and maybe say what it means for these teams going forward

It with of course the fact that that's all subject to change versus we got to get to some news more information on Gordon Hayward

Jeremy Lins injury as well, and then we're gonna get to the three games tonight the Lonzo ball debut against the Clippers

Melos first game in O.K.C

Against his former team the next and those doctors and then we're gonna do a special treat as well a little mini

Mailbag we got four questions we picked out from our patreon subscribers to do here

We're gonna do a full mailbag for our patreon subscribers in the next week or so

But we wanted to pick out those four of those questions and do them here on dunked on as well

Give you a little taste of what you get if you are a patreon subscriber at patreon.com slash Duncan LaRou

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Let's get to the news here Danny start with the update on Gordon Hayward

He in fact did have surgery and it appears likely for his agent Mark Barrelstein that he will miss the entire season

It's certainly disappointing, but it's also not surprising and so yeah

It was a dislocation of the of the ankle along with a break at the according to Jeff Stotz at the distal end of the tibia

And so you should read Stotz's piece because he talks about the differences between that and this was in the preliminary stages of the reporting and

Paul George's injury which was instructive for me because that was kind of what I thought of first and so the differences between those two and

The expectation as you said is that he'll be out for the year and something that Darren Revelle noted is that the NBA's insurance will allow the Celtics to recoup about

40% of the money. It's gonna pay a word. He still gets every cent, but it's just insurance that pays out to the Celtics

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