{"id":45258,"date":"2025-04-28T08:54:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T07:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/?p=45258"},"modified":"2025-04-28T12:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:41:59","slug":"its-not-very-promising-milwaukee-coach-doc-rivers-drops-major-update-on-damian-lillards-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/its-not-very-promising-milwaukee-coach-doc-rivers-drops-major-update-on-damian-lillards-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It\u2019s not very promising&#8221; &#8211; Milwaukee Coach Doc Rivers Drops Major Update on Damian Lillard&#8217;s Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee coach Doc Rivers talked about Damian Lillard&rsquo;s injury after his team&rsquo;s 129-103 loss against the Indiana Pacers on Sunday. Lillard suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/damian-lillard-injury-status-what-happened-to-damian-lillard\/\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>non-contact injury <\/a>midway through the opening quarter when Indiana had a 15-12 lead. The All-Star guard limped to the locker room and didn&rsquo;t return to the game. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Damian Lillard headed to the locker room after suffering an apparent injury vs. the Pacers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LrayQyXtB1\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/LrayQyXtB1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1916673846595199051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>April 28, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>As per<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisBHaynes\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'> Chris Haynes<\/a>, NBA insider, Damian Lillard is appeared to suffer a torn Achilles. Brutal circumstances after working himself back from a blood clot diagnosis that kept him out for over a month. The Milwaukee Bucks are one loss away from facing first-round elimination in the NBA playoffs, and they will play without their key player in Game 5. <\/p><p><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/the-whistle-was-gonna-head-their-way-magics-jamahl-mosley-fumes-after-game-4-loss\/\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>&lsquo;The Whistle Was Gonna Head Their Way&rsquo; &ndash; Magic&rsquo;s Jamahl Mosley Fumes After Game 4 Loss<\/a><\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Doc Rivers Is Not Optimistic on Damian Lillard&rsquo;s Status <\/h2><p>Milwaukee Head Coach Doc Rivers shared his thoughts on Damian Lillard&rsquo;s injury, and he is not optimistic about Lillard&rsquo;s status. Doc told reporters that Lillard is going to get imaging done tomorrow. <\/p><p><em>&ldquo;They going to do an image tomorrow,&rdquo; <\/em>Rivers told reporters after the game.<em> &ldquo;Obviously it&rsquo;s lower leg, and just being honest, it&rsquo;s not very promising.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not very promising. &hellip; I feel bad for him. The guy tried to come back for his team.&rdquo;<br><br>Doc Rivers with the latest on Damian Lillard. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rmv3jd4BQ3\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/rmv3jd4BQ3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1916712439430762892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>April 28, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>Lillard crumpled to the floor after tapping the ball to Gary Trent Jr for an offensive rebound in the first quarter. He sat on the other end of the floor and struggled to walk. Kyle Kuzma and Rivers helped him to reach the locker room. He didn&rsquo;t put extra load on his left foot and limped to the locker room on his right foot. <\/p><p><em>&ldquo;I knew it right away,&rdquo;<\/em> Rivers continued. <em>&ldquo;I felt bad for him, you know, the guy tried to come back for his team and, you know, I just felt bad for him.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p><p><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/damian-lillard-injury-status-what-happened-to-damian-lillard\/\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>Damian Lillard Injury Status: What Happened to Damian Lillard?<\/a><\/p><p><em>&ldquo;My job over the next 48 hours or whatever we have is to get us upright again, try to win one game in Indiana and get it back here,&rdquo;<\/em> Rivers said.<em> &ldquo;But my brain right now is right where the same place the players are, and that&rsquo;s thinking about Dame. That&rsquo;s really the human part of this job that is no fun.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p><p>Lillard recently made a comeback from injury when he appeared in Game 2, but the injury potentially ended his season for the Bucks. The 34-year-old averaged 10.5 points, 6.0 assists and 3.0 rebounds per game in the playoffs. He had two assists and two rebounds before leaving the court, going 0-for-2 from the field.<\/p><p><em>Mandatory Credit: Stephen Lew-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"mm-layout mm-layout-type-post mm-layout-slot4\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Lillard is appeared to suffer a torn Achilles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":45328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mux_skip_reasons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[60,6282,865,289],"class_list":["post-45258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-damian-lillard","tag-doc-rivers","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-milwaukee-bucks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;It&rsquo;s not very promising&quot; - Milwaukee Coach Doc Rivers Drops Major Update on Damian Lillard&#039;s Injury<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Milwaukee coach Doc Rivers talked about Damian Lillard&#039;s injury after his team&#039;s 129-103 loss against the Indiana Pacers on Sunday.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/its-not-very-promising-milwaukee-coach-doc-rivers-drops-major-update-on-damian-lillards-injury\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;It&rsquo;s not very promising&quot; 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