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Like, you just got assigned ā
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to the main G League team, you're in the very first steps of getting yourself in real basketball shape.
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These are the infancy steps of getting yourself in real basketball shape.
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I didn't sustain it.
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I watched my son Dia two years ago.
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have to have tightrope surgery on his ankle.
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It's a, it's a pretty sick, you know, it's a, it's a relatively normal surgery, but it had him out for, I don't know, 12, 12 weeks, something like that.
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Right.
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So like he came back and was able to start playing seven on seven on that ankle in May.
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Okay.
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Like, could he be out there playing seven on seven where he just has to take a drop and fire a football?
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Yeah, he could do that.
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By June, Dia was able, this is a whole month of like rehab and working just to get like stability and all the little, you know, muscles in his foot and stuff firing again.
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By June, he was ready to start like
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shaking a little bit and doing a little like, you know, cone drills, more things change of pace and stuff like that.
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Not just linear straight line stuff, right?
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So you're already like a month in with him being back and you say, oh, he should be able to play.
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And he and his rehab guy's like, no, no, no, he can't play.
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He can do that, but he can't play play yet.
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Now, June, we've just crossed another hurdle.