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One more small tweak to our NBA RAPTOR projections: We're now accounting for players who are recovering from severe injuries. So, e.g., Porzingis has a more pessimistic projection than before. 53eig.ht/2YZs4ec
The impact isn't *that* big, but teams that have a player recovering from a severe injury, e.g. Dallas, San Antonio (Murray), Indiana (Oladipo) each lost about a win off their projected W-L record. Maybe the biggest effect is GSW, whose title odds fell from 10% to 8% (Klay).
In general the hierarchy of NBA injuries, for worst to not-so-bad in terms of how your production is diminished upon returning, appears to be as follows:

~~WORST~~

Achilles
ACL
other knee injuries (e.g. MCL)
other lower body (foot/leg) injuries
upper body injuries

~~NOT BAD~~
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