Welcome in podcast listeners. We got a lot to discuss all of it relating to game five of the NBA finals where the Golden State Warriors got the win, but man, oh man, was it a costly win with Kevin Durant going down hour one, we go to Dan Wetzel in the train terminal of Toronto, as he prepares to travel out of that city for the vibe in the arena and in the city.

Then in hour two, we get a visit from a doctor to break down the overall likely impact of the Kevin Durant Achilles injury and also in hour three, Petros,

Boba Deika swings by as he does every single Tuesday, all that hop in, listen, enjoy this is out kick out kick the coverage with clay Travis live every week day morning from six to nine a.m. Eastern three to six a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, find your local station for out kick the coverage at Fox Sports Radio dot com or stream us live every morning on the I hard radio app by searching FSR.

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Why from the guy go out kick studios this game last night between the Warriors and the Raptors left us with so many different subplots, so many different overall questions to ask.

I mean, it was a season wrapped into a single game. I think first of all, the number one story by far, even though we still don't know who's going to win the NBA championship is the Kevin Durant injury multiple reports late last night that the Warriors anticipate that Kevin Durant has torn his right Achilles tendon.

That would be an injury that would keep him out for all of next season that would throw the entire NBA free agency into an uproar because all of these different teams that have been trying to clear space to have room to sign multiple free agents have got really difficult decisions to make because the expectation has to be that Kevin Durant now is out for an entire year.

And I think the Golden State Warriors putting it simply have to pay Kevin Durant his max contract. I'm not sure how many years he wants to opt in for. I'm not sure whether they want to sign him to a longer term deal.

But whatever decision Kevin Durant was thinking about making. I think this probably solidifies that he's going to stay in the Bay area. Now maybe there is a team or teams out there that would still sign Kevin Durant.

Even though he has to sit out for a year and it might be a year and a half until he's back to the same player that he was a month ago before this injury.

But this is a devastating injury not just for Kevin Durant and not just for the Warriors and his teammates, but also for the NBA in terms of resetting the overall power dynamic of the league and just the drama that would have come from free agency had Kevin Durant been an unrestricted for the NBA.

And unrestricted for the agent. So that's big picture question for the league in the wake of the Kevin Durant injury. Also the Warriors are going to have to answer a lot of really challenging questions about whether they correctly diagnosed the injury to Kevin Durant that happened when his right calf strain allegedly occurred a month ago.

Maybe these are completely different injuries. Maybe it's just coincidental that in the same right leg that was already injured suddenly Kevin Durant tears his Achilles probably that seems to be the fear as we wait the medical diagnosis which will come later today the official MRI results.

Maybe there is no connection whatsoever between the two, but that seems highly, highly unlikely and I'm not a doctor and 99.9% of you out there are not doctors and even the people who are doctors are probably not an expert in the biochemistry and biomechanics of the leg.

What oftentimes can happen throughout injury history is if you have one injury your body sometimes will adjust the way that you are carrying yourself to try to take the pain off of that injury and it can lead to another injury sometimes more severe than the one you're trying to protect yourself from.

So there will be a ton of questions asked I think fairly about how good was the Golden State Warrior medical evaluation of Kevin Durant did he come back too soon if he had set out for the remainder of the year would he have been capable of a full recovery or was his Achilles destabilized and injured or someway partially torn and not diagnosed and it might have revealed itself at some point even if he had a injury.

After they thought he was 100% recovered from the right calf injury this also plays in with what is I think a difficult decision in general which is when are players healthy enough to play again and how much do you trust the overall medical evaluation.

Having said all that if you watched Kevin Durant in the first quarter and a half when he was playing I don't think there's any doubt that if he were healthy the Golden State Warriors would have won this series in four or five games that's how much difference he makes on the court he's the best player in the world right now playing in an incredibly high level he opens up the court even more for Steph Curry even more for Clay Thompson and Dremont Green and everybody else on the offensive side of the ball four.

The Golden State Warriors and when he's healthy he's pretty good defender against spot up options from from guys like co-I Leonard who otherwise aren't able to shoot as easily over Kevin Durant as they would be other players so to me this storyline breaks down in so many different directions but we start with the injury to Kevin Durant and we have just excruciating audio from warriors GM buyers after the game here.

Here are three different segments of his post game news conference as he is close to breaking down into years.

It's an Achilles injury I don't know the extent of it he'll have an MRI tomorrow prior to coming back he went through four weeks with our medical team and it was thorough and it was experts and multiple MRIs and multiple doctors and we felt good about the process.

He was cleared to play tonight that was a collaborative decision.

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