Irving's attending physician says the knee injury is difficult to recover from and may affect his career, possibly making him the next Rose

On March 29, Beijing time, the Celtics narrowly defeated the Jazz on the road, winning five straight games. And this winning streak is simply unbelievable for the Celtics, because they have suffered the most serious injury wave in the league at this stage.

The consecutive absences of Theis and Morris have given Celtics fans a serious headache. But now an even worse piece of news has been reported by US media: Selleny Parekh, a professor at Irving's alma mater Duke University, an orthopedic expert, and one of Irving's attending physicians, said that Irving's knee injury will be difficult to fully recover from.

"After this minimally invasive surgery, Irving will very likely be unable to fully heal in time, and this knee problem will continue to trouble him for the rest of his career," Parekh said. "The sudden heat and burning in the knee will persist. When he rests, this feeling will improve, and when he uses the knee, it will burn again. And if the knee burns to a certain degree, then it will affect his performance."

"In my opinion, if this problem is already very serious, and earlier he wanted to rest so that the injury could heal, then if he plays a large number of minutes again in the playoffs, this will certainly become a problem."

"What you will see is that when he rests, this condition calms down, and when he returns to the court, maybe he looks excellent in the first few games, and then he starts to have the burning problem, and he still cannot rest, so the pain will keep rising with each game. In the end, this injury will become a recurring problem until he has the thing inside his knee removed. If he keeps pushing through, it will affect his ligaments, his kneecap, and his career."

This really could not sound any worse. We know that Irving and Rose play in a very similar way. Unlike Westbrook's straightforward style, both Irving and Rose accelerate and change direction very frequently and with great amplitude, and such habits inevitably wear down the knees. Over time, this will cause excessive knee wear, and then knee injuries will follow one after another.

With such a precedent already in place, could Irving really become the second Rose? This really makes one feel heavy at heart, because if he does not change his playing style, he cannot eradicate the knee injury, while changing his playing style will inevitably leave Irving at a loss, clinging to him like an incurable disease. We can only wish Irving good health for the rest of his career, and let us cherish what we have while we can.

To avoid being considered fabricated news, part of the original text is excerpted as follows:

"What you will see is a scenario where he rests, it calms down, he gets back out there, maybe he looks pretty good for the first few games as it starts to flare up and he has no rest that pain will ramp up as each game goes on and you'll start seeing an accumulation of this loss of performance over a series of games.

"It will end up being this kind of cyclable issue which will become a nagging problem for him throughout the rest of the season until he gets that hardware removed.

"The one danger is, if he's already having a lot of pain and he goes out there, you continue to irritate the tendon, the concern is do you eventually rip through skin so that is a big concern that they have to worry about."

He added: "I think there will be lingering effect from this injury - the patella fracture the the had - that will continue to effect his career."