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One of the NBA's best up and coming stars will miss rest of year with terrible injury

He was having such a great year too.

Zach LaVine has been playing the best ball of his career averaging 18.9 points a game while shooting 45.9 percent from the field overall and 38.7 percent from beyond the arc. That last percentage is close to last year's, but he's also shooting almost twice as many shots from there this season. Unfortunately, LaVine won't have the rest of the season to continue his hot shooting:

That likely means Shabazz Muhammad and Brandon Rush will be getting more minutes to try to shore up that lost production. LaVine had recently declined to participate in the Dunk Contest again this year after beating out Aaron Gordon last year in one of the most epic contests in recent memory.

This is where the injury may have occurred: