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Ankle injury slows, then sparks Abrams

"It's like I got a different hunger for the game after I came back from the injury," Abrams said. "I hadn't been playing for a couple months. It was like a whole different hunger that I had for myself."

Mostly, it was a defensive hunger. He was motivated to become an elite stopper as well as a scorer.

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