A Quote by Luol Deng
A lot of basketball players have tendinitis. It's known as jumper's knee, and it just comes from all the pounding our knees take.
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If you shoot with mechanics where you've got your knees bending in all the way, you're not using your hips properly, you get all of this tendinitis and knee pain.
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