MANILA, Philippines—It’s never been easy for June Mar Fajardo to look back on those days where he was sidelined by a broken leg.
Surprisingly, the one part he has gotten over was that the injury was partly because of his insistence on playing on despite being advised to rest. Surviving on pain killers to mask his problems with a hairline fracture on his right tibia, Fajardo doubled-down on basketball, putting more stress on his leg.
“I don’t regret what happened,” the 31-year-old Cebuano said in Filipino in an interview with SportsIQ. “I even think that my bone got stronger because of the metal rod in it and the healing process has been okay.”
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