All of the medical experts say that is not when it happened. That was just the final straw. If it hadn’t emerged at that moment, it would’ve emerged as she was jogging to the locker room. But the root cause of the injury was much earlier, according to every orthopedist.
Not all medical experts and orthopedists had that to say. One example from the Hartford Courant:
Dr. Michael Miranda, Chief of Orthopedic Trauma at Hartford Hospital, and Jeff Stotts, an injury analyst and certified athletic trainer who has an extensive background covering sports injuries and has his own NBA injury database.
Watching the replay of Bueckers’ injury, it looks like she went to attempt a jab step as she was bringing the ball up the floor, and her ankle may have turned first before suffering the fracture. It’s possible that the ankle maneuver led to the knee hyperextension, Stotts and Miranda said, as ankle and knee movements are closely linked.