For five matches and nine days, Khris Middleton is stuck in the infirmary for a right knee injury. If he trained a little on Saturday at TD Garden, he nevertheless did not participate in the Christmas game in Boston the next day. How does he feel ?
“I would say it’s better than last week, when I stopped”answers the 2021 champion at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “My knee is much less swollen. I take things day by day. I try to make sure that when I come back, I can stay for the long haul. »
The return to competition of Khris Middleton will indeed have been very short. Operated on his wrist during the off-season, he only returned to the courts on December 2. Then, ten days later, he was shot in the ankle against the Rockets, before playing two games in a row and saying “stop” because of his knee.
“There are little things that happened, the first matches, when I resumed”, he says. “Strange things that had never happened to me in my career. I played despite that. During the game in Houston, I didn’t manage to put myself in it, then gradually, everything got worse. It was a collegial decision to stop and let things heal properly. »
On these “strange things”, Khris Middleton did not want to go into details. He only insisted that only rest would allow him to come back.
“By playing despite my problems, I realized that the only way to be myself again, to feel normal, was to get away from the courts for a while. Not knowing it would take so long, I took things on a daily basis to make it more sustainable. »
| Khris Middleton | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2012-13 | TED | 27 | 18 | 44.0 | 31.1 | 84.4 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 6.1 |
| 2013-14 | MIL | 82 | 30 | 44.0 | 41.4 | 86.1 | 0.7 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 12.1 |
| 2014-15 | MIL | 79 | 30 | 46.7 | 40.7 | 85.9 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 13.4 |
| 2015-16 | MIL | 79 | 36 | 44.4 | 39.6 | 88.8 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 18.2 |
| 2016-17 | MIL | 29 | 31 | 45.0 | 43.3 | 88.0 | 0.4 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 14.7 |
| 2017-18 | MIL | 82 | 36 | 46.6 | 35.9 | 88.4 | 0.6 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 20.2 |
| 2018-19 | MIL | 77 | 31 | 44.1 | 37.8 | 83.7 | 0.7 | 5.3 | 6.0 | 4.3 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 18.3 |
| 2019-20 | MIL | 62 | 30 | 49.7 | 41.5 | 91.6 | 0.7 | 5.5 | 6.2 | 4.3 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 20.9 |
| 2020-21 | MIL | 68 | 33 | 47.6 | 41.4 | 89.8 | 0.8 | 5.2 | 6.0 | 5.4 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 20.4 |
| 2021-22 | MIL | 66 | 32 | 44.3 | 37.3 | 89.0 | 0.6 | 4.8 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 20.1 |
| 2022-23 | MIL | 7 | 24 | 32.5 | 26.8 | 89.5 | 0.1 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 4.4 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 11.1 |
| Total | 658 | 32 | 45.7 | 39.0 | 88.1 | 0.6 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 17.0 | |
