And Carter suffered a sickening dislocation after jamming his finger, seeing the bone pierce through the skin and requiring an overnight stay in hospital - but only after he played on for another 11 minutes.
Of the trio, there were no concerns over Vukona, with assistant coach Paul Henare describing the damage as a "healthy gash".
Jackson's wrist will be monitored before the next Breakers game, in Adelaide on January 4, while it was too soon to gauge any lingering effects of Carter's injury.
But, given all three players recovered enough to contribute to the win, the main after-effect of what turned into a war of attrition will likely be a galvanising effect within the club.
"It was awesome to see each of those guys come back into the game after what they went through," Henare said. "It's one of those signs of toughness and character."
That character enabled the Breakers to close out a Kings side attempting to come back from a big first-half deficit and upset their short-handed opposition.
Combined with a heavy defeat in Cairns last week, a loss would have made their break bittersweet, but now the Breakers are set for the second half of the season.
"It's a tough time of year to play and we didn't play well [in Sydney] last time," Henare said.
"You could go on about the motivating factors, and then the adversity that we had to deal with during the game, with several guys going down injured.
"It was huge. We wanted to check this one off, we wanted to finish the year off well and now, with the eight-day break, we're obviously going to need that time to make sure we're locked in and ready to go against Adelaide." NZME
