HOUSTON — "Health is wealth" is more than just a proverb for Eric Gordon. It's what he's hoping will be a new way of basketball life now that he's suiting up for the Houston Rockets.
After five injury-riddled seasons with the New Orleans Hornets/Pelicans, where he was forced to sit out 173 of a possible 394 games due to severe damage in his right knee (2011-12), left knee (2012-13), a torn labrum in his left shoulder (2013-14) and a fractured bone in the ring finger of his shooting hand (2015-16), he's ready to turn the page in favor of a new, healthier chapter.
"Really, all my injuries happened in New Orleans, so dealing with four or five years of injuries was definitely tough and frustrating," Gordon said during Rockets media day in September. "But being here in Houston, I'm going into a season with no restrictions, happy to play and don't even have a thought about it or deal with any injury at all."
To some extent, he deserves a mulligan, but a deep dive into the numbers reveals there was much more to his struggles than simply staying healthy.
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