My worst was a couple months back. I decided to run a couple miles after not doing anything for a long time. Then I went up to the gym and played like 3 pickup games.

On the third game I came down from a rebound and landed on some gigantic lead-footed dude's foot. At the time I played through it because I've played through small stuff before.

Well my step-mom is a doctor and she said it was a level II ligament tear out of a possible three. I couldn't play at all for two weeks and it is still real stiff in the morning. But what she said to do was to stretch it out every day by drawing the alphabet with your foot. Just keep your leg still and use your toes like a pen to draw the shapes. That helped some.

Main thing you guys should know is that fatigue is the main cause of sports-related injuries. If you have to do cardio, do it after you play so you don't screw your ankle like mine.