Did Kiyoshi have an injured knee even before being seriously injured by Kirisaki Daīchi High?


In _Kuroko no Basuke_ , Kiyoshi missed the first half of the year because he
was undergoing rehab due to his injury against Kirisaki Daīchi High in the
final match of Prelims the year before.

However, on rewatching Episode 8 of Season 2, where the flashback of the
previous year's journey and Kiyoshi are focused on, I noticed that Kiyoshi
looks down at his legs a number of times throughout the episode, even before
the injury.

The most specific scene however is ~15mins into the episode, just after Hyuga
compliments Kiyoshi on his dunk, we see Kiyoshi wincing and see his leg is
quivering. This seems like a stretch that he injured his leg twice in the
match. More probable (my theory, anyway) is that he was carrying this injury
before the tournament and didn't tell the others because he didn't want the
team to pull out without him in the first year itself.

**TL;DR - Was Kiyoshi injured before his match against Kirisaki Daīchi High or
it is canon he had another injury?**




After watching the episode, I think Kiyoshi started having the injury on his
legs for playing too much. He may have known about it because he is tall, thus
he will likely to injure his legs more than average size person (I read an
article about tall basketball players are more prone to injury).

So yes, he was injured before his match against Kirisaki Daīchi High, and
Makoto Hanamiya made it worse by injuring him.

