Jaden Ivey was carted off the court after suffering a leg injury during the Pistons’ game against the Magic.
Pistons guard Jaden Ivey underwent successful surgery on Thursday at Henry Ford Hospital to repair a broken fibula in his left leg.
“I promise to come back even better,” Ivey wrote in a social media post. “The recovery starts now #DetroitBasketball.”
He will be reevaluated in four weeks.
The injury occurred during the fourth quarter of Detroit’s 105-96 victory against the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night.
He was injured when Orlando’s Cole Anthony slipped and fell as he and Ivey went for the ball. Anthony’s momentum carried him into Ivey’s planted leg, knocking Ivey to the floor. The 22-year-old Ivey was in obvious distress as he grabbed for his shin, and the team’s medical staff quickly attended to him.
Members of the training staff held up towels to block the crowd’s view of the injury and players from both teams formed a circle around him. After a lengthy delay, he was loaded onto a stretcher and wheeled out of the arena with a towel covering the injury.
“It is tough for all of us,” Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff said. “There’s no better person or teammate than J.I. and no one cares more about this than he does. I give the guys credit for getting it done — they care about him and they didn’t want to let him down.”
