Less than 24 hours after twisting his ankle badly enough that he had to be helped off the court, Samuel Dalembert was back in the lineup against New Jersey.
“We have a great staff,” Dalembert said before Saturday’s game. “Yesterday we kept it under control soon after everything happened and this morning we kept it under control. I used my (hyperbaric) chamber. …We used some of the electro-magnetic thing from the doctors we have. I don’t know which one is working. I did a lot of treatment this morning with our trainer and our staff stays on top of it.”
Dalembert, who usually forgoes taping, had his left ankle heavily taped. He said his ankle felt fine when he ran, especially after he had warmed up.
But there’s almost no doubt that part of the reason Dalembert was so determined to play was his streak of 235 straight games – 236 after Saturday’s start – intact.
“It’s something I wanted to do so bad for myself,” he said.