George has a long road to recovery ahead. Photo credit: Getty Images
In the fourth quarter of Friday night's USA Men's inter-squad scrimmage, Paul George suffered a terrible injury. James Harden was pushing the ball in transition, and Paul George was looking to stop the play he went to contest the layup and landed wrong resulting in his leg snapping. Immediately all players apart of the game felt pain for George as he laid helplessly.
Chris Paul separated shoulder. Photo credit Dallas Mavericks Media
by +Rodney Fisher Chris Paul may be out 3-5 weeks, or at least his head coach Doc Rivers thinks so. The Los Angeles Clippers beat the Dallas Mavericks tonight 119-112. In a winning effort, they may have lost their superstar to separated shoulder.
Russell Westbrook has knee surgery. Photo credit NBA
by J.T. After watching Russell Westbrook on Christmas day, I thought to myself, “The Thunder are a real threat”. Westbrook was fresh off of an effortless triple double versus the Knicks. For Thunder fans it was no reason to panic, but after news their starting point guard will be out at until after the All Star break, it gives fans some reason to worry.
A.J. Jenkins of the San Francisco 49ers. Photo credit NFL
49ers star receiver tore his achilles and more than likely will be out for the season the majority of the season. Crabtree finally claimed his spot as the
9ers number 1 receiver last year, being the first receiver to get over
1,000 receiving yards for the 9ers since Terrell Owens.
The Los Angeles Lakers playoff chances to a major hit last night with Kobe Bryant going down grasping his ankle with 3:08 left to play.
The Lakers went on to win the game over the Golden State Warriors 118-116, but suffered their biggest loss of the season.
Kobe has been logging 46 minutes per night in the month of April. This had already led to placing the blame on head coach Mike D’Antoni, but injuries like this just happen.
Achilles injuries have ended the careers of Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal in recent history, but Bryant has always been a fast healer. Not fast enough to help the Lakers secure the playoff spot or even win a game if they do make the playoffs.
Kobe Bryant: “I was just hoping it wasn’t what I knew it was…I heard the pop.”
Kobe’s plan now: “MRI, surgery, and then recovery. It’s a new experience for me. Obviously, there’s been a bunch of players that have had the same injury, so, all I can do is look at them and what they’ve done and who had more success coming back quicker and healthier and see what they did and see if I can improve upon it.”
Kobe has been vocal this season about ending his career in 2014. This seems to make more sense now.
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The big story after the AFC/NFC Championship games is not the upcoming Super Bowl. Its the NFC losing QB Jay Cutler and his demeanor. Cutler went into the locker room early before the end of the first half. He did return for only one series in the second half, but was pulled from finishing the game with a knee injury. Cutler stayed on the sidelines, standing on his injured knee, with a somewhat "don't care" attitude.
This demeanor left the public to speculate how hurt was he. Current and former players, sitting at home watching the championship games, took to twitter to giver their opinions of Cutler. Most were to the effect of blasting the QB for not playing when he could stand. Cutler was injured, period. We question QBs when they stay in the game hurt and cost a team the game playing hurt, then blast a QB and coaching staff to trying to win the game with a better option.
You would think with a team like OKC coming into to town, Caron Butler out for the year, and missing 5 straight games even Dirk would stand-up and say "Play Me". But no. The "Big German" will miss his 6th straight game, the longest consecutive miss streak in his career.
It's now up to Chandler, Mahinmi, and Haywood to keep Durant from hitting maybe 50. The Mavs are however coming off back-to-back wins without Dirk and Caron. Tonight will be a big test for this team.
