"Normally, what happens is when you take the player back to the locker room as he did. The team orthopedist [from the Cleveland Clinic] [...] will lay the guy on the table and he'll maneuver the arm and determine whether there is damage in there. If there's a sprain, [...] then he would never have put him back in the game. So my guess is that they manipulated the shoulder back in the locker room--determined that it was not a sprain [...] and so they sent him back out there and told him, 'Okay, it's not sprained--there's no torn ligament that you could risk doing further damage to' so you put him back in the game. And that's what happened.
Then you heard what Kyrie said after the game where he said it's still uncomfortable and there's alot of pain. And I think they had to make a decision, 'do we put Kyrie on the plane or do we have him take an MRI this morning at the Cleveland Clinic?'. And so I do think it's out of precaution. I think the fact that they put him back in the game leads me to believe that their initial testing with the manipulation was that it was not serious."
