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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard has left Game 4 of an Eastern Conference first-round playoff series with the Indiana Pacers after hurting his lower left leg the first quarter. Lillard was helped off the floor and into the locker room after suffering the non-contact injury. The Bucks announced he won’t return to the game.

The fears, it turns out, were founded. Damian Lillard ruptured his left Achilles tendon on Sunday night — an injury that dramatically alters the career of a player named one of the 75 greatest in NBA history,