Odd and unusual injuries suffered by pro athletes are typically reserved for baseball players, like Madison Bumgarner, but today, we learned about Bobby Portis’ injury that is an early favorite for weirdest sports injury of 2017.
Bulls’ Bobby Portis actually played better after burning his foot with a heating pad
This is actually fine.
We have no idea how headphones have anything to do with feeling your foot burning. This is like the meme having to turn down your radio so you can read street signs. What does one have to do with the other?
Only logical conclusion is that Portis is really, really focused when he has his headphones on. If that’s the case, Bobby Portis is the new defiinition of “in the zone.”
Portis never missed a game after receiving the injury. Here’s what he told CBS Chicago about the injury on Saturday.
“No one ever really knew about it, but it affected me a little bit,” he said. “Every time I bent my foot, it hurt. I never really complained. I’m one of those guys, I think I’m tough. I don’t really try to tell anybody about it. I just hold it in for myself. Other than that, it affected me. At the same time, I fought through it because, you know, I got in the rotation. I didn’t want to let a foot injury get me out and have to work my way back into it.”
That’s pretty wild. And maybe the most absurd part is how he performed receiving the burns and after.
That’s right. Bobby Portis performed better in every major statistical category after receiving 3rd-degree burns on his foot.
This man is not human.
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