What does Jeremy Lin's injury mean for the Brooklyn Nets guard and his team?
For the second night in a row, we saw a starter suffer a season-ending injury in his team's season opener. Although Lin's ruptured patella tendon wasn't quite as graphic as Gordon Hayward's fractured tibia and dislocated ankle, it was equally clear that Lin knew right away that something had gone terribly wrong when he landed awkwardly on a layup in the fourth quarter of the Nets' loss to the Indiana Pacers.
An MRI on Thursday confirmed what Brooklyn surely already suspected: Lin ruptured his patella tendon, ending his 2017-18 campaign before it had a chance to begin. How will the Nets replace Lin, and what does this mean for his future? Let's take a look.
