Randle just broke his leg

[Smook A.]

:(

[Bless Mathews]

For real?

[RRR3]

****in a. Anyone got estimates as to when he'll be back?

[LBJ4MVP23]

He needs to man up and just walk it off.

But honestly thats terrible.

[Smook A.]

For real?
Yeah. He just got off the court on a stretcher

[L8krH8tr]

He needs to man up and just walk it off.

But honestly thats terrible.


you dont man up on a broken leg you dumbass

[Rake2204]

Good grief. What an awful turn of events. He appeared to be so casual about it. I figured it was an ankle sprain and muted the broadcast. Then I flip back to see him being placed on a stretcher. Terrible.

[ZeN]

****in a. Anyone got estimates as to when he'll be back?
It hasn't technically been confirmed, let alone given a healing time table.

[ReturnofJPR]

****in a. Anyone got estimates as to when he'll be back?


April 2015

[MJ(Mean John)]

Dude F.uck my life.


This is hullshit. The basketball gods are mad at us

[AirTupac]

Feel for the kid :(

[ReturnofJPR]

Dude F.uck my life.


This is hullshit. The basketball gods are mad at us

Oh ya, with all those chips and HOF's :wtf:

[dubeta]

Sad :(

he's literally the only future for the Lakers since they shipped all their future picks

[L.Kizzle]

I saw him on the floor in thought tying his shoe.

[Mr. Jabbar]

Feel bad for Julius, this will just make the tank better tho

[strifed169]

if you look at the replay closely you can see his left foot snap his right ankle in half

[Bobcats2013]

Oh ya, with all those chips and HOF's :wtf:

Like the ugly chicks say

"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best."

[reppy]

This sucks. Hate to see a dude get injured like this to start his career.

[Bless Mathews]

Yeah. He just got off the court on a stretcher


Damn. I turned it off. Blowout city.

Hope he comes back strong.

[KyleKong]

**** man, hope for a speedy return.

[Wavves]

Hope he has a speedy recovery.

[Swaggin916]

the hell kind of shit is this...

[ROCSteady]

FML

[S13M]

Lakers getting all the breaks

[KevinDurant35]

Lakers getting all the breaks
:oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol:

:facepalm

[noob cake]

Fractured Tibia according to TNT

[HurricaneKid]

Tibia is actually not nearly as bad as broken leg sounds. Two months tops. Achilles, fibula would have been far far worse.

[Real14]

Randle was a top five rookie of the year this year. Feel bad for the kid. Kobe should leave the lakers now, talk to derek and phil and go to the knicks. My condolences and deep sympathy tho laker fans:(

[Smook A.]

Randle was a top five rookie of the year this year. Feel bad for the kid. Kobe should leave the lakers now, talk to derek and phil and go to the knicks. My condolences and deep sympathy tho laker fans:(
:oldlol: What do you mean top 5 rookie of the year this year? Season just began lol.

[Real14]

:oldlol: What do you mean top 5 rookie of the year this year? Season just began lol.
Meaning he is potential top 5 best rookies for the season:coleman:

[oarabbus]

Could have been ankle ligaments or achilles. Still sucks but good thing it's a broken bone and not a ligament/tendon. Get well soon Randle.

[Cold soul]

This shit sucks. The basketball gods hate us and were cursed.

[Genaro]

I'm very sad for Randle. People don't know how hard it is to make it to the NBA, and after all those years of work to get hurt on his first game really sucks.
I hope he bounces back from this, he looks like a nice kid.

[coin24]

:( :(

[ImKobe]

Could have been ankle ligaments or achilles. Still sucks but good thing it's a broken bone and not a ligament/tendon. Get well soon Randle.

broken tibia

gonna be out for about 2-3 months.

[AintNoSunshine]

Randle was a top five rookie of the year this year. Feel bad for the kid. Kobe should leave the lakers now, talk to derek and phil and go to the knicks. My condolences and deep sympathy tho laker fans:(

Why the fukk would you want Kobe on your team at this point?

[dubeta]

Why the fukk would you want Kobe on your team at this point?

He knows the knicks arent going anywhere

[Soundwave]

Damn that's pretty much the worst way for your first NBA game to go aside from like an ACL tear or something. Feel bad for the kid.

[miggyme1]

I'm very sad for Randle. People don't know how hard it is to make it to the NBA, and after all those years of work to get hurt on his first game really sucks.
I hope he bounces back from this, he looks like a nice kid.

not to take anything away from randle but he looks like one of those players that were destined to play basketball at the highest level..not saying he doenst have a work ethic but i mean lets be serious...when u 6'6 and above u basically just gotta be a tad bit athletic,have good hands and understand the game and u got id say at least a 60% chance to make the nba barring any major injuries before college and getting introduced to the game at an early age..hell we've seen players like tim duncan,embiid and olajuwan pick up the game later in life and go on to have hall of fame careers. of course the jury is still out on embiid...but when u blessed with height i feel the path to the nba is a slight easier than say for someone 6 feet 5 or shorter.

i do wish randle a speedy recovery and if it is a broken leg thats a good sign since its just a bone which will heal perfectly and wont take anything away from him athletically or confidence wise

[Cold soul]

Get well soon, Randle. :(

[tomtucker]

:( ...........................should that little jump really break something in your leg ?..


.

[Nick Young]

shit! Will Barkley 2.0 ever recover enough to reach his top potential? This is as bad as it can get!

[NattyPButter]

broken tibia

gonna be out for about 2-3 months.

With Byron Scott as coach you better add another 2+ months, and if he's badly out of shape then you minds well not to expect to see him for 6months

[NugzFan]

Can someone explain to me how the lakers are cursed?

[mrpibb]

not to take anything away from randle but he looks like one of those players that were destined to play basketball at the highest level..not saying he doenst have a work ethic but i mean lets be serious...when u 6'6 and above u basically just gotta be a tad bit athletic,have good hands and understand the game and u got id say at least a 60% chance to make the nba barring any major injuries before college and getting introduced to the game at an early age..hell we've seen players like tim duncan,embiid and olajuwan pick up the game later in life and go on to have hall of fame careers. of course the jury is still out on embiid...but when u blessed with height i feel the path to the nba is a slight easier than say for someone 6 feet 5 or shorter.

i do wish randle a speedy recovery and if it is a broken leg thats a good sign since its just a bone which will heal perfectly and wont take anything away from him athletically or confidence wise

I can't say I've read a worse post in quite a while.

[#number6ix#]

Damn he wasnt bullshitin when he said he wanted to be kobe

[josh99]

Damn that sucks, well at least it should heal up pretty quickly without the recurring complications that knees/ankles can often have.

[East_Stone_Ya]

oh shit :(

[kurple]

Ed Davis > Randle

[Mr Feeny]

Damn he wasnt bullshitin when he said he wanted to be kobeThat's cruel:lol

[9512]

more bad luck for the Lakers. :(

Hopefully it will not career threatening for Julius Randle.

[Jameerthefear]

Well that takes him out of ROY consideration :confusedshrug:

[fiddy]

Well that takes him out of ROY consideration :confusedshrug:
I guess so, calm down doe gay Blake is not getting it

[9512]

Well that takes him out of ROY consideration :confusedshrug:

he will still qualify as a rookie for next season. Same thing happened to Blake Griffin.

[ImKobe]

he will still qualify as a rookie for next season. Same thing happened to Blake Griffin.

Blake Griffin injured himself during pre-season, Randle already played an NBA game this season, so technically he wouldn't qualify for next year, unless the league makes an exception because he barely played and got injured in his first game...

And he could be back to finish the season, depending if he needs surgery or not. He could only miss 2 months.

[Demitri98]

Dang. It'll just help the tank though. No possible way the Lakers were winning over 40 anyway.

[Shade8780]

Damn he wasnt bullshitin when he said he wanted to be kobe
:lebronamazed:

I guess this gives Smart a better chance to win ROY, despite him probably having a better season than Randle anyway because, let's be honest, if Randle wasn't on the Lakers, he would not be this hyped and talked about on this forum at all.

[Shade8780]

not to take anything away from randle but he looks like one of those players that were destined to play basketball at the highest level..not saying he doenst have a work ethic but i mean lets be serious...when u 6'6 and above u basically just gotta be a tad bit athletic,have good hands and understand the game and u got id say at least a 60% chance to make the nba barring any major injuries before college and getting introduced to the game at an early age..hell we've seen players like tim duncan,embiid and olajuwan pick up the game later in life and go on to have hall of fame careers. of course the jury is still out on embiid...but when u blessed with height i feel the path to the nba is a slight easier than say for someone 6 feet 5 or shorter.

i do wish randle a speedy recovery and if it is a broken leg thats a good sign since its just a bone which will heal perfectly and wont take anything away from him athletically or confidence wise
A 6'9" PF born to play basketball :oldlol:

[kurple]

I guess so, calm down doe gay Blake is not getting it
I thought griffin was the gay blake

[fpliii]

Going to be another rough season. Hoping we can at least pick up somebody to take pressure off Kobe so he doesn't face consistent hard doubles.

[gts]

more bad luck for the Lakers. :(

Hopefully it will not career threatening for Julius Randle.

Just a broken leg, not a knee or anything joint related which are much worse injuries

Worthy had the exact same injury his rookie year

Barring complications like his body doesn't heal like the rest of us he'll be good to go

[Dro]

wow, wtf, I fell asleep after half time..when did it happen?

[Dro]

Just a broken leg, not a knee or anything joint related which are much worse injuries

Worthy had the exact same injury his rookie year

Barring complications like his body doesn't heal like the rest of us he'll be good to go
So is like PG's? Where it was a clean break and he'll be able to come back healthy in about a year or a bit less?

[9512]

Blake Griffin injured himself during pre-season, Randle already played an NBA game this season, so technically he wouldn't qualify for next year, unless the league makes an exception because he barely played and got injured in his first game...

And he could be back to finish the season, depending if he needs surgery or not. He could only miss 2 months.

So even one game barely playing 20 minutes can count as a rookie season?

Wow there goes that ROY award to Randle's resume of greatness.

Honestly I don't know the extent of the injury. I didn't want to watch the footage as I get queasy from watching bones breaking (Kevin Ware injury).

[boozehound]

So is like PG's? Where it was a clean break and he'll be able to come back healthy in about a year or a bit less?
not even close. it will be 2 months at most I would guess

[gts]

So is like PG's? Where it was a clean break and he'll be able to come back healthy in about a year or a bit less?

not even that bad, actually nowhere near that bad... We'll know more this afternoon but i'm expecting 2-3 months given the chatter last night and this morning

[SwishSquared]

not even that bad, actually nowhere near that bad... We'll know more this afternoon but i'm expecting 2-3 months given the chatter last night and this morning
SB Nation said it's likely he's out the rest of the season and could possibly have surgery today. I don't think anything's confirmed, but I read that this morning.

[IGOTGAME]

not even close. it will be 2 months at most I would guess

finally someone sensible. I mean, maybe three but he should be able to come back this season. Sad part is he looked really good, was tossing around grown men out there.

[gts]

SB Nation said it's likely he's out the rest of the season and could possibly have surgery today. I don't think anything's confirmed, but I read that this morning.

we'll see... like you said nothing confirmed, surgery would certainly complicate things

i tend to lean towards the short term because they had to use x-ray to confirm the break last night so it obviously wasn't apparent to the trainers it was broken

keeping finger crossed for the kid, rough way to start your career but as Kobe says he has a good team of doctors and a great support group behind him

[Rake2204]

SB Nation said it's likely he's out the rest of the season and could possibly have surgery today. I don't think anything's confirmed, but I read that this morning.Yep, to piggy back off this, I think SB was probably pulling from the LA Times:
Randle, the seventh overall pick in the draft, is expected to have surgery as early as Wednesday and will probably miss the entire season. He had two points on one-for-three shooting in 13 minutes when he left the game.http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/la-sp-lakers-rockets-20141029-story.html

I think it's tough to tell the severity of injuries sometimes, especially if they're not visible and/or met with agonizing pain from the player suffering the ailment.

[Dro]

not even that bad, actually nowhere near that bad... We'll know more this afternoon but i'm expecting 2-3 months given the chatter last night and this morning
Ok, good, good...

[boozehound]

Yep, to piggy back off this, I think SB was probably pulling from the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/la-sp-lakers-rockets-20141029-story.html

I think it's tough to tell the severity of injuries sometimes, especially if they're not visible and/or met with agonizing pain from the player suffering the ailment.
I am surprised this break would require surgery...... Oh well, what do I know. Man, that frontcourt rotation lost any of its potential for growth and excitement. This is going to be a long season for Lakers fans

[SpecialQue]

You know, at this point, I just have to laugh and shake my head at the Lakers' misfortunes. It's getting ridiculous at this point. I knew this was going to be a lost season without contending, but I was looking forward to seeing Randle's development and now that was yanked away right on the season opener. Really, what else is there to say about it? Fvck these injuries.

[AnaheimLakers24]

not randle. wish him the best.

[Optimus Prime]

Well the tank is certainly on now. Randle was one of the few bright spots this season outside of a rejuvenated Kobe out to prove all the haters wrong.

:kobe:

[gts]

You know, at this point, I just have to laugh and shake my head at the Lakers' misfortunes. It's getting ridiculous at this point. I knew this was going to be a lost season without contending, but I was looking forward to seeing Randle's development and now that was yanked away right on the season opener. Really, what else is there to say about it? Fvck these injuries.

Just a bad spell... had an incredible run for many many years where they avoided this level of injuries... it'll run it's course

[SpecialQue]

Well the tank is certainly on now. Randle was one of the few bright spots this season outside of a rejuvenated Kobe out to prove all the haters wrong.

:kobe:

Swaggy's gonna shoot them into a few misguided "wins" to fvck up the tank, just like last season. :(

[gts]

Swaggy's gonna shoot them into a few misguided "wins" to fvck up the tank, just like last season. :(
they don't even have a draft pick...

[Optimus Prime]

they don't even have a draft pick...

Yes we do, as long as it falls within the Top 5.

Hence, the tank.

[boozehound]

they don't even have a draft pick...
I thought it was top 5 protected?

[nzamcdza]

Such a shame he was my dark horse for Rookie of the Year!

[Budadiiii]

Put his rookie year on hold and set back the Lakers franchise even further...

Damn.

[NugzFan]

Possibly a dumb question but can randle win Roy next season? Or did the one game eliminate him being considered a rookie next year?

[boozehound]

Possibly a dumb question but can randle win Roy next season? Or did the one game eliminate him being considered a rookie next year?
pretty sure he cannot, as he has played in this season (even if only 14 minutes)

[Darius]

ESPN saying out for the year.

Gotta feel bad for Laker fans. They spent all last year tanking for this pick and now they are going to be a bad team again but they don't even get the entertainment of watching Randle grow over the course of the year.

That's what made Clipper seasons bearable for a long time because it is interesting seeing young players grow... watching a bunch of old vets come in 11th in the west? That's brutal, esp as PHX has their 1st rounder...

At least there is Jordan Clarkson!!