Brian Windhorst

talking to brian winhorst of the mothership nba uh... writer senior nba writer the difference in an nba concussion protocol in the nfl concussion protocol is what so basically it can it can be shorter you you can start either certain things you have to accomplish that take twenty four hours but you can start that after twenty four hours so in theory

you can come back within 48 hours.

But within that, there's two steps, step one and then step two.

So the fact that every NBA first round series has one spot where there's two days in between games just because they have to elongate it out because there's eight series.

They're all budgeted for up to 15 days or so.

This happens to be a good fortune moment for the Spurs because they do have the extra day.

They didn't have an extra day between one and two.

The extra day comes between two and three.

So in theory, he could come back on Friday.

Okay, that's the legalese.

Having said that.

Dan, this was a brutal, brutal fall.

He was knocked out flat cold.

And I have no idea.

I don't know what his history is going to be.

I don't know how severe this concussion is.

The Spurs said last night that he did not have a jaw injury.

If that is true...

That is incredible.

Or the fact that he didn't bite through his tongue with that hit.