Kobe Bryant pens words of encouragement to Gordon Hayward after terrible injury

If you’ve watched yesterday’s game between Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers, you’ve probably witnessed one of the most gruesome injuries in NBA. Gordon Hayward attained a terrible ankle injury after attempting to do an alley-oop during the opening game of the NBA. This has happened a little before the first quarter started.

After that incident, Hayward was taken out on a stretcher and was reportedly brought to a hospital in Boston.

As someone on his early career in the NBA, this can be rather demotivating aside from being physically painful. Hence, Kobe Bryant, a basketball superstar and a former NBA player, wrote to Hayward a heartfelt message via Instagram.

A poignant part of Kobe’s message was when he said, “Then focus on the recovery process day by day by day. It’s a long journey but if you focus on the mini milestones along the way you will find beauty in the struggle of doing simple things that prior to this injury were taken for granted.”

I bet those words are some that Gordon really needs right now.

Be sad. Be mad. Be frustrated. Scream. Cry. Sulk. When you wake up you will think it was just a nightmare only to realize it’s all too real. You will be angry and wish for the day back, the game back THAT play back. But reality gives nothing back and nor should you. Time to move on and focus on doing everything in your power to prepare for surgery, ask all the questions to be sure you understand fully the procedure so that you may visualize it in your subconscious while being operated on and better the chance of it’s success. Then focus on the recovery process day by day by day. It’s a long journey but if you focus on the mini milestones along the way you will find beauty in the struggle of doing simple things that prior to this injury were taken for granted. This will also mean that when you return you will have a new perspective. You will be so appreciative of being able to stand, walk, run that you will train harder than you ever have. You see the belief within you grow with each mini milestone and you will come back a better player for it. Best of luck to you on this journey my brother #mambamentality always.

A post shared by Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) on Oct 18, 2017 at 8:38am PDT

What words of encouragement do you want to share to Gordon Hayward?