Breaking News: Kyrie Irving out 4 weeks

[brandonislegend]

Due to dislocated finger.

:(

[EnoughSaid]

Due to dislocated finger.

:(

Wade got a dislocated finger before the playoffs last year and didn't miss a game. So uhh, what?

[DukeDelonte13]

Wade got a dislocated finger before the playoffs last year and didn't miss a game. So uhh, what?


he played in sundays game, the injury happened sat. night.

This is going to get ugly.

[brandonislegend]

Its a hairline fracture

[Andi]

**** my Fantasy team...My first two picks: Bynum and Kyrie... Lol :)

[Babalu]

http://i.imgur.com/mEhly.jpg

[PJR]

Kyrie has been pretty injury proned in his basketball career thus far. From Duke on to the pros now...

[junior]

http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/releases/injury-update-121119

[QUOTE]Cavaliers Guard Kyrie Irving received an MRI and CT Scan of his contused left index finger (3rd quarter of Saturday night

[outbreak]

Kyrie has been pretty injury proned in his basketball career thus far. From Duke on to the pros now...

because a finger injury = chronic injury. :biggums:

[Eric Cartman]

Unfortunate, but hopefully we see him earlier than that. I love that kid's game.

[chips93]

:(

in b4 dions 25 fgas

and **** this irving is injury prone bullshit.

he hurt his toe at duke, and didnt wanna come back too soon, in case he hurt his draft stock. then he got a concussion last year. he hurt his shoulder, and we wanted to tank so he missed a few games

its a few freak injuries, hes not injury prone.

[nathanjizzle]

its not really breaking news, its dislocating news.

[swag2011]

Wade got a dislocated finger before the playoffs last year and didn't miss a game. So uhh, what?

Stop trying to make it seem like Wade is this warrior that plays through injuries when we all know that he is quick to sit any game b/c his ****** hurts.

[IGotACoolStory]

A chance for Waiters to average 30 shots a game now.

[b1imtf]

Shit

[KyrieTheFuture]

Waiters ROY

[Blue&Orange]

cavs management is ecstatic, they need all the help they can get, seeing how bad pistons, washington and toronto are.

[G-train]

:(

in b4 dions 25 fgas

and **** this irving is injury prone bullshit.

he hurt his toe at duke, and didnt wanna come back too soon, in case he hurt his draft stock. then he got a concussion last year. he hurt his shoulder, and we wanted to tank so he missed a few games

its a few freak injuries, hes not injury prone.

He constantly has things happening to him it seems. Something happened this off season too.

[La Frescobaldi]

He's surrounded by great medical facilities, trainers, doctors, they've made a decision that's best for him. Each injury is a different case.

He's gonna be fine and we all got lots of terrific hoops to look forward to I just wish he was a T-Wolf it would fit in to the whole team being injured!!

[DuMa]

hey cavs, its a little early to start tanking, bros

[HaNdLe ThE RoCk]

any hope the Cavs had for 8th seed might be out the window

[Meticode]

Kind of sucks. Dion, start chucking.

[IGotACoolStory]

Was it a freak injury? Didn't see it.

[Meticode]

Was it a freak injury? Didn't see it.
Not sure. It happened against Dallas, he played with it in Philly they thought it was bruise.

On Irving's Twitter he say it was a freak injury. But isn't any injury kind of a freak injury?

[KeyNote]

http://i.imgur.com/mEhly.jpg

this

[noob cake]

Cavs tanking.

They are playing this safe, protecting their franchise player while tanking for Noels or Zeller.

[NattyPButter]

I bet he wants to play it's Scott's decision to not play him to tank even more. I'm glad I didn't buy any tickets this year. The injury is on his non shooting hand WTF. Organizations should get in trouble for tanking on purpose.

[bagelred]

Dis located finger, dat located finger, or da other located finger?:confusedshrug:

[RedBlackAttack]

This is bad news for a couple of reasons...

1. It makes Cavs games much less entertaining and/or watchable. Don't get me wrong, I'll still watch... but, this team is going to be really bad for the next month.

2. Any ideas of competing for a playoff spot following the current brutal stretch in the schedule is now looking more and more unlikely. A 2-8 record can be turned around pretty significantly over the course of an 82 game season. A 6-19 record is a little more difficult to recover from (just speculating, but that is about what I expect).


Aside from those two notables, this really isn't much of a big deal in the grand scheme. It looks like the doctors and coaches are being extra cautious about this because they can afford to be. This team probably won't be in playoff contention this early in the complete rebuild and with so many young players. There is no sense in pushing a guy out there with a minor injury that could turn into something more major if he takes a hard shot to the finger or bangs it off of the rim or falls on it, etc.

I have no problem with going the route of better safe than sorry right now. If this were late in the season and we were making a playoff push? Different. If this were the playoffs? Different.


Btw, anyone who has watched Kyrie all season and then watched him yesterday can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that something was not right with him. I just chalked it up to tired legs after a brutal stretch of road games to open the season. Now, things make a little more sense. He probably spent much of the game protecting that hand (and had tired legs).

Don't fret, Cavs fans. We won't even remember this short stretch in a couple of years when the team will hopefully be ready to compete for something more. Yeah, it's too bad we won't be able to watch him until mid-December, but I think it beats the alternative... Needlessly risking the future for the present.


Oh, and all of the people saying the word, "tank," get serious. There was obviously something up with him Sunday and he was x-rayed during the Dallas game due to this injury. They found something... He's injured. Being cautious is a virtue at this point. It isn't "tanking."

[InspiredLebowski]

RBA, great as Irving is, you can't deny that he seems fairly fragile, franchise playing it safe or not. I get playing it safe, but missed what, like 25 games in his year at Duke? 15 games last year. A dozen or so this year now at least. This has to be a legitimate concern.

[francesco totti]

can the east even get more rubbish?

Bulls - Rose
Pacers - Granger
Sixers - Bynum
Magic - no howard
Hawks - no joe jhonson
cleveland - irving

[RedBlackAttack]

RBA, great as Irving is, you can't deny that he seems fairly fragile, franchise playing it safe or not. I get playing it safe, but missed what, like 25 games in his year at Duke? 15 games last year. A dozen or so this year now at least. This has to be a legitimate concern.
I don't really think so, no. It isn't just about number of games missed. It is about the injuries which were sustained and the reasons the player was held out.

At Duke - Probably the most significant injury of his career, which isn't saying much. It was essentially mild turf toe. I believe it later came out that he was advised not to come back until the tournament as to not impact his draft stock, since he was already considered the consensus No. 1 pick.

Last year - Missed a few games due to a concussion and a couple more from the flu. Then, he hurt his shoulder toward the end of the season when the franchise was pretty clearly in "let's try out some D-Leaguers to see if we can find some gems and try to get Anthony Davis" mode. There isn't a doubt in my mind he would have come back sooner if he would have been needed. Same goes for Varejao, who was held out for the entire year with an injury that probably should have only been 4-6 weeks or so.

I think management and doctors thought, "We've seen how good Kyrie is, he's played 50+ games in this ridiculously condensed season... let's put him to bed for the year."

He did come back toward the end of the season, but barely played any minutes when he did. The strategy was pretty obvious.

This year - Has had a couple of minor hand injuries. The first one meant missing meaningless Summer League. He was completely ready for training camp.

Now this one, I gave my thoughts above. I think management and doctors are being extra-cautious. I sort of even doubt he'll be out a full four weeks. Docs said he'll be re-evaluated after two weeks. I wouldn't be shocked if it was more like a 2-3 week injury.


So, he had:

*mild turf toe with no recurrence
*concussion with no recurrence
*mild shoulder injury with no recurrence
*a couple of finger injuries and we'll see how he recovers


To me, that doesn't equate to injury prone. That equates to playing for an extremely cautious franchise still in the infancy of a re-build and protecting its franchise player at all costs. His first serious injury will be the day I begin to worry. This isn't it.

My two cents.

[brandonislegend]

RIP my fantasy team :(

[chips93]

it really hit me when i woke up this morning

donald sloan, dion waiters& boobie gibson now comprise our pg rotation

http://www.miopc.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/noooooooooo.gif

edit: tristan hurt his face in some way, he'll have to play with a mask, so we will have two big men wearing masks.

should be fun

i dont think you can accuse irving of being injury prone, but maybe a little soft

[Tking714]

The cavs are expert tankers

[Kujo]

Kyrie has been pretty injury proned in his basketball career thus far. From Duke on to the pros now...



Yep, not a good sign at all. Cavs are really going to suck these next 4 weeks.

[Dictator]

He shouldn't be out at all. I still played basketball with two broken fingers.

[SilkkTheShocker]

Which player in this draft would best fit in for the Cavs?

[chips93]

just read this pretty staggering stat about irvings impact on the cavs offense


When he's on the court the Cavs are scoring 108.3 points per 100 possessions, per baskteball-reference, and when Irving is on the bench, the Cavs generate just 81.6 points per 100 possessions. Irving is basically the whole show for Cleveland and now it's on hiatus.

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2012/11/19/3668954/kyrie-irving-injury-broken-hand-cleveland-cavaliers

this could get ugly

[ZMonkey11]

He shouldn't be out at all. I still played basketball with two broken fingers.

Well then suit up son. The Cavs need ya!:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[jamal99]

He shouldn't be out at all. I still played basketball with two broken fingers.
How? When I broke a finger, I couldn't play for almost 2 months and I was wearing cast for like month and a half. Broke it pretty bad tho...

[heyhey]

the guy has a fragile build like steph curry, they both gonna have an injury plagued career imo

[Dictator]

How? When I broke a finger, I couldn't play for almost 2 months and I was wearing cast for like month and a half. Broke it pretty bad tho...


Actually my fingers were broken and dislocated.

After the doctors numbed it and put it back in place, I used sports tape(on top of the finger cast) and wrapped the two fingers together. So my index finger, thumb, and pinky finger were used to shoot the ball.

Breaking fingers don't even hurt. Didn't Kobe play with broken fingers?

[RedBlackAttack]

the guy has a fragile build like steph curry, they both gonna have an injury plagued career imo
He's actually built nothing like Steph Curry. And, I fail to see how his "build" contributed to a fractured index finger. Or his hand injury in the offseason. Or his toe injury at Duke.

If anything, it seems he has trouble with the small appendages.

[Pacers4ever]

I've seen players play with much worse injuries and the same injury as his but it make sense the season was lost from the beginning and they need 1 more solid lottery pick to start it up. He might also not react to pains from injury well either but we'll see. Also get that kid some milk or whatever cavs last superstar was drinking lol

[Meticode]

I've been worried about Irving's play style frankly. I think this might contribute a lot to him getting injured in the future. I hope not...

He's a great shooter and awesomely crafty at getting to the basket and making a shot. The problem is his body isn't built for that sort of punishment. I see him go up and take contact from guys that are almost a foot taller than him and have 50+ pounds on him and he makes the shot. It's astounding. The issue is that he's not built like a LeBron James or even close to that.

I hope he's not injury plagued But he's going to miss 10+ games now this season after missing a decent amount in last year's shortened season. I'm not sure tanking is worth it in this draft if that's what they're trying to do. We'll see though...

[Pacers4ever]

I've been worried about Irving's play style frankly. I think this might contribute a lot to him getting injured in the future. I hope not...

He's a great shooter and awesomely crafty at getting to the basket and making a shot. The problem is his body isn't built for that sort of punishment. I see him go up and take contact from guys that are almost a foot taller than him and have 50+ pounds on him and he makes the shot. It's astounding. The issue is that he's not built like a LeBron James or even close to that.

I hope he's not injury plagued But he's going to miss 10+ games now this season after missing a decent amount in last year's shortened season. I'm not sure tanking is worth it in this draft if that's what they're trying to do. We'll see though...
The season is over pray for shabazz and never forget anderson varejo because that nikka will be traded soon enough

[Rubio2Gasol]

Play through it? :confusedshrug:

There's going to come a time when he needs to play through shit like this if he wants to win anything....but that time isn't now.

As far as I'm concerned if they can go 4 weeks without him and rack up a decent amount of losses to get a good pick then they're better off for it. If Waiters can develop during that time, better yet.

[RedBlackAttack]

Play through it? :confusedshrug:

There's going to come a time when he needs to play through shit like this if he wants to win anything....but that time isn't now.

As far as I'm concerned if they can go 4 weeks without him and rack up a decent amount of losses to get a good pick then they're better off for it. If Waiters can develop during that time, better yet.
Pretty much how I feel. Yes, eventually I'd like to see the kid play through these kinds of injuries, but now is certainly not that time. And, I'm guessing this is a decision that was made by the coaches and doctors and not Kyrie, since he played one game following the injury.

If I had to guess, and I say this having watched Kyrie in every game he's played as a professional, they took a look at his performance and didn't like what they saw (his worst game in some time).

And, I agree with that decision if it was made by management. Absolutely no reason to risk re-injuring the hand before it fully heals when this team isn't going to be very good either way.

[G-train]

So, he had:

*mild turf toe with no recurrence
*concussion with no recurrence
*mild shoulder injury with no recurrence
*a couple of finger injuries and we'll see how he recovers


To me, that doesn't equate to injury prone. That equates to playing for an extremely cautious franchise still in the infancy of a re-build and protecting its franchise player at all costs. His first serious injury will be the day I begin to worry. This isn't it.

My two cents.

Very glass half full.
There is no doubt he is has had many fragile injuries in his young career.
The broken hand this offseason deserves a place on that list, it needed surgery and put him out 8 weeks.
Seems he gets injured very easily, and something needs to change before its a serious one.

[noob cake]

Very glass half full.
There is no doubt he is has had many fragile injuries in his young career.
The broken hand this offseason deserves a place on that list, it needed surgery and put him out 8 weeks.
Seems he gets injured very easily, and something needs to change before its a serious one.

No knee, no back, no foot problems. I could care less about other freak injuries.

[G-train]

No knee, no back, no foot problems. I could care less about other freak injuries.

He missed most of his college season with a damaged tendon in his foot, that required a cast. It was a significant injury.

[RedBlackAttack]

He missed most of his college season with a damaged tendon in his foot, that required a cast. It was a significant injury.
..his most significant injury to date and it has had no recurrence. If these last couple setbacks were anything other than hand/finger injuries, I would be much more worried. I'm just not going to freak out about such minor bumps and bruises.

[G-train]

..his most significant injury to date and it has had no recurrence. If these last couple setbacks were anything other than hand/finger injuries, I would be much more worried. I'm just not going to freak out about such minor bumps and bruises.

I was correcting noob cake, who stated he had no foot injuries.

[RedBlackAttack]

I was correcting noob cake, who stated he had no foot injuries.
Yeah, I know. I was just commenting on the injury. It hasn't been an issue since his days at Duke.

[AngelEyes]

Very disappointing to see Kyrie lose a month of the season. I still expect huge things out of him this season.