Adoring fans at arenas around the world thank him for inspiring their own rehabilitations and congratulate him on his journey into the NBA's circle of champions. There are uplifting reminders, to be sure. The Celtics are secretly trying to find out. Believe it or not, the secret to rehabbing from a traumatic injury might lie in video games and virtual reality. Perhaps the most effective way to get over the mental wounds is to go to an alternate world. And in those moments, he isn't Gordon Hayward, the guy whose foot went sideways in front of the world. He pings his childhood friends and Utah buddies alike, rallying them to play Destiny 2 with him late at night.
Hayward distracts his brain and fills it with positive associations. Talk to other players who've been through this-Kevin Ware, Shaun Livingston and Paul George-and they'll say the mental aspect was the cruelest part. "It helps you turn your mind off from constantly thinking about the injury," Hayward says now. How do you get over that? For Hayward, the prescription could be found in, of all things, video games. 1 blog post that his "thoughts started to go to a very dark place." This was the part of the rehab that many warned him about-the mental scarring and daily psychological struggle to keep going. Hayward opened up about that on his personal website, admitting in a Nov.
But injuries like Hayward's are often felt most acutely not in the bones but in the brain.
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