Cautious in his recovery, Cam Johnson wants to accumulate “small victories”

November 6, 2017, and November 4, 2022. These are the two dates, five years apart, on which Cam Johnson suffered the same injury: a tear in the meniscus of the knee.

Only difference: the knee concerned, since it was the left in 2017, when he was still a university in North Carolina, when he injured his right at the beginning of the month, during a match against the Blazers.

Despite this twist of fate, the Suns winger, who had won his place in the five major during the offseason, keeps his spirits up. Already operated, he began his convalescence, and is now fully focused on his recovery.

” I feel good, I progress every day » thus reassured the 11th choice of the Draft 2019. ” I’m aiming for small victories for the moment, I don’t project myself more than that. I will not announce such and such a date for a return. Instead, I focus on my day-to-day healing. »

His most recent “small victory”? Jumps on his left leg, and some standing shots, this Wednesday. ” And I also did cardio on the bike. The rhythm taken by playing every day, it forges the cardio, and I had lost it after my operation. So to be able to get back on the field, sweat and get out of breath a little, that’s my victory [de mercredi] he adds.

Then the UNC alum finally gets a little wet, confident that he’s well on schedule, for now, relative to the projected length of his absence, estimated somewhere between one and two months.

” Certainly, yes. I am in these waters he concludes. ” But it’s wide, it can be up to four or five weeks difference. I think that [la décision] will emerge from a combination of my progress, and my comfort in playing again at this time. I don’t know what the sequel will be like, so like I said, I’m aiming for small wins every day first. »