Kevin O'Connor: Cade Cunningham's collapsed lung could keep him sidelined for the rest of the regular season, but not the playoffs, if past recovery timelines are any indication: CJ McCollum, 2023: Missed 12 games over 3.5 weeks CJ McCollum, 2021: 18 games, 6 weeks Terrence Jones, 2015: 6 games, 2 weeks Gerald Wallace, 2009: 7 games, 3 weeks Average of 10.8 games over 3.6 weeks. The Pistons have 14 games remaining with one month until the playoffs
That's pretty encouraging. He should be back before the end of the regular season, potentially after 2-3 weeks.
That?s a scary injury - glad he?ll be able to recover quickly. Given that it?s a lung injury a wonder if there are lingering effects related to lung function/breathing/stamina.
a truly unfortunate and disconcerting injury but apparently something he'll recover from thankfully.
wonder if his absence puts the top seed into play for the C's now
Probably not. DET is still 3.5 ahead of us and have the tiebreaker so we'd have to make up like 5 games, with each team having around 13-14 left.
I am interested to see though if this means a team like CLE decides to not really try and stay in the 4 seed so they draw DET and potentially a limited Cade in the 2nd round. DET with a less than 100% Cade is a way better draw than NY/BOS IMO
