One of my buddies is an opthalmologist that has some experience in eyelid repair and I talked to him about this.
He said one option would be to remove his eye and replace it with a glass eye while the lid heals. You would just keep his original eye suspended in a milk solution until it’s ready. You would just need to change the milk out regularly to ensure it doesn’t curdle.
The eyeball being out would promote faster healing, because believe it or not, eyeballs actually fight against the healing of eyelids. The blinking, drying, and sleeping process constantly reinjure the eyelid. The glass eyeball would not require rewetting, so Darius could be taught to blink with one eye during the healing process.
Once the eyelid is healed, you would put the eyeball back in. So long as it connects properly to the optic nerve, and it should, vision is likely to be restored within 8-10 weeks. At which point he could return to basketball activities with a patch over the eye.