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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 3034715, member: 966"]
Players typically say that no one is 100% come playoff time. 
Players often play hurt. It's not as if anyone can say it was all team management or even fans or media putting pressure on KD to play. If he's a competitor, he wanted to be a part of that championship series. That's why Cousins came back, even though everyone assumed the Warriors were going to win anyway.

Kawhi didn't play last year for the Spurs because he didn't have the confidence in his quad. Supposedly. You have to rely on both the medicals and the player's own assessment. KD knew what was at risk, with his upcoming contract situation.

And he looked pretty good in those early minutes. Maybe all the tests in the world just can't predict something like this. Remember how Mariano Rivera ripped his achilles while shagging balls in the outfield? Something he did all the time. He didn't even do anything super drastic to injure himself. With KD, if he was really dealing with a "calf strain," how do you predict an achilles rupture? It's just as likely that all the prep and treatment and unusual exercises KD did to deal with the calf are what strained the achilles. Who could know?
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