Enter: soleus exercises. This wide, flat muscle in your lower leg tends to get less attention than the more prominent muscle of your calves—a.k.a., your gastrocnemius (or gastroc), which the ...

said it might be another muscle that plays into how long of an absence Antetokounmpo endures. "If it was truly isolated in the soleus and did not involve the gastrocnemius, I would think that ...