These injuries are so rampant. There's not a good way to prevent them. Stregnth and endurance training is helpful. Most physicians recommend cross-training, because you not only develop the pure strength component but also the endurance component. That will help you in the fourth quarter of a basketball game or the second half of a soccer game.
Muscles are wonderful shock absorbers.
There's split-second timing that's required for a plant and a cut, and a jump and a landing, where the muscles can absorb that shock. When you're fatigued, that split-second timing is lost, and you don't necessarily have the quads strength to absorb the shock when you come down from a rebound. Really, at this point, that sort of advice is all we have. There are no braces that are preventive. There are proprioceptive exercises that most colleges and pro teams have their players do.