too familiar with Nikola Jokic's knee injury
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Key Points:
- Kevin Durant compared his knee injury history to Nikola Jokic's recent hyperextended knee, emphasizing that such injuries are often freak accidents caused by others falling into a player's leg.
- Durant missed significant time due to two knee injuries sustained in similar ways during his tenure with the Brooklyn Nets, including a medial collateral ligament sprain in 2022 and another ligament injury in 2023.
- Jokic, a three-time NBA MVP, suffered his injury when a teammate stepped on his foot during a game, and the Denver Nuggets announced he will be reevaluated in four weeks.
- Durant expressed hope that Jokic would not be labeled "injury prone" as he was, noting that Jokic's injury appears less severe and expects the star center
