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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 3291593, member: 2117"] Bird/Taurasi have played in the league for 15+ years. EDD's injuries have been unique without tangible timelines compared to your standard ACL/broken bone type. Lymes disease, bone bruise, back spasms, a thumb injury, etc. She's been the only one as far as I can tell to have these injuries. Most of these injuries can be quite minor or quite significant depending on the severity of it. Reading between the lines, I think a lot of fans interpret this and other factors as not showing that she has that drive to win/be on the court at all costs. To add to this, she also has never played year round as a pro, quit basketball altogether for a year in college before playing a program that was far beneath her abilities and forced a trade in the pros citing she lost passion playing basketball on the Sky. Combining her history of up and down passion for the sport along with several injuries that all have unknown severities, people question the severity of of them, fair or not. I understand the argument, but based on how she played yesterday I don't doubt the spasms are quite real and painful. My guess is that EDD is more injury prone than your average player and for whatever reason, probably just bad luck, they happen at really inopportune times. [/QUOTE]