Ainges last 3 star point guards:
Kemba: degenerative knee
Kyrie: degenerative knee?
IT: degenerative hip
The medical team needs a serious review on how this keep reoccuring. Who keeps approving these guys and missing career ending red flags ?
Kemba becomes an untradable albatross if this condition truly becomes worse and worse
I'm assuming they knew 100% but they think it can be managed through some load management. If this is the case, then I'm ok with it but the story might be the same every year come playoff time ("kemba was playing hurt and that's why he wasn't as good sometimes"
Kyrie doesn't have a degenerative knee (at least, as far as anyone can tell). His knee issues were a broken kneecap in the 2015 finals, and then issues with the screws/wires that were put in to help it heal (they caused tendonitis) when he played for us. After the screws/wires were removed and he healed from that procedure, the knee has been fine. He had surgery again last season, but that was for his shoulder; if anything, he's just injury prone, but it isn't one specific injury that keeps recurring.
The IT one isn't really an issue for the team not finding, either: you aren't gonna find/notice an FAI unless there's symptoms (like the torn labrum he suffered). It's way too specific to expect teams to look into the shape of every player's femoral head just in case it isn't round enough and could cause later injury (especially since, at that point, you would end up looking into hundreds of other possible issues that may never come up, and you're gonna struggle to find anyone "fully healthy").
Letting IT continue to play on the injured hip, though, was a huge failing. It seems like the Kemba injury may be one as well.