Pretty much everything I know about it is my brother dealing with it; as much as I'm a slob he's always been in fantastic shape and plays multiple sports, but ever since this developed this he would get sidelined all the time because of the pain. He tried a lot of the short term therapies; which helped alleviate it a lot in his everyday life, but he couldn't play either for very long or not at all a LOT until he got the surgery, and even that combined with the other therapies took a good 6 months+ to deal with it. That much time off at a minimum for a professional athlete is presumably why Noah hasn't done it. This season would seemingly have been a good opportunity for him to have tried addressing it that way. Agreed. I thought if I did some searching I'd find news that he had it done. Maybe he did, but it wasn't reported. There is the risk of nerve issues and heel pain after the surgery, so maybe he was concerned about that. My brother definitely has to deal with the heel pain; he can still play soccer and baseball, but basically stopped playing basketball because of it.