{"id":13767,"date":"2024-02-07T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=13767"},"modified":"2024-02-07T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:05:38","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-tyson-walker-gives-quick-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=13767","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball: Tyson Walker gives quick injury update"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tyson Walker went down during Tuesday&#8217;s loss, but the Michigan State basketball star says that he&#8217;s feeling OK.<\/h2>\n<p>Michigan State basketball star guard Tyson Walker has been the go-to player for this team all season. He has carried the Spartans to multiple wins this season and frankly, I don\u2019t know where this team would be without him.<\/p>\n<p>Walker\u2019s play has been excellent all season, especially recently. During Tuesday night\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-takeaways-loss-at-minnesota\/\">59-56 loss to Minnesota<\/a>, Walker <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-tyson-walker-makes-history\/\">passed Kalin Lucas for the most consecutive double-digit scoring games<\/a> in Michigan State history.<\/p>\n<p>This accomplishment is impressive on its own, but it\u2019s even more impressive when you factor in his minor injury.<\/p>\n<h3>Tyson Walker groin injury<\/h3>\n<p>Walker has been dealing with a <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-tyson-walker-dealing-with-groin-injury\/\">groin injury<\/a> for a few weeks now, and last night, he aggravated it again. He was visibly limping on the court and even had to go back to the locker room. Thankfully, Walker was able to return to the game and appears to be fine going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson addressed this injury after the game with the media,\u00a0sharing that he \u201cslipped in the second half but felt OK after returning.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tyson Walker said he slipped in the second half but felt OK after returning<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kyle Austin (@kylebaustin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylebaustin\/status\/1755082943062593871?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Knowing the warrior Walker is, I wasn\u2019t surprised to see him return so fast to the game. Also, based on this comment alone, I don\u2019t have a fear of him missing any time going forward.<\/p>\n<p>He was only out for about three minutes, but MSU really felt his absence in that short amount of time.<\/p>\n<h3>MSU can\u2019t afford to lose Walker<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s easy for any team to say that they can\u2019t afford to lose their best player. This MSU team, however, showed on Tuesday night why they can\u2019t lose Walker. The Spartans were in control of this game and had a nine point lead when he left the game. In those three short minutes, Minnesota started hitting their shots and MSU couldn\u2019t find an answer offensively.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State basketball lost all of their momentum and couldn\u2019t recapture it when Walker returned. But it\u2019s worth asking, would MSU have lost their lead in the first place if he never got hurt?<\/p>\n<p>There is no way to know for sure, but I think the end of the game would have gone very differently if he never got hurt. I think MSU likely would&#8217;ve cruised to a comfortable win, and we\u2019d all be feeling a lot better about ourselves right now.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of Tuesday\u2019s outcome, it\u2019s obvious that this team can\u2019t lose Walker. His health is probably the most important thing to this team right now, and thankfully it sounds like he\u2019s going to be OK going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[190,189,504,202],"class_list":["post-13767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-tyson-walker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}