LaMarcus Aldridge suffers thumb injury, needs surgery, out 6-8 weeks

[insidehoops]

Portland Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge needs thumb surgery and will miss 6-8 weeks.

Aldridge's thumb injury is a radial collateral ligament tear in his left thumb

[navy]

Damn.

[chosen_one6]

Portland Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge needs thumb surgery and will miss 6-8 weeks.

Aldridge's thumb injury is a radial collateral ligament tear in his left thumb

Faster than bagelred :bowdown:

[TaLvsCuaL]

dem injuries, this season has been truly terrible :(

[Genaro]

Does this means Portland miss the playoffs? They're currently 8 games ahead of OKC but it's going to be hard to keep at this winning pace.

[longtime lurker]

Lilard's about to go ham for my fantasy team.

[navy]

Lilard's about to go ham for my fantasy team.
He wont.

[RoseCity07]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk

[gts]

That sucks...

[bigkingsfan]

Oden is available

[supernova5912]

Does this means Portland miss the playoffs? They're currently 8 games ahead of OKC but it's going to be hard to keep at this winning pace.

It depends how well the Trail Blazers can cope with the loss of one of their best players. If they can go .500 for the next six to eight weeks, they should still be on a 50+ wins pace. If not, they're going to be a lottery team.

[KNOW1EDGE]

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Very bad news for the Blazers.

Jermaine Oneal and Andre Blatche are gonna be getting a phone call very soon

Good news for Damian Lillards race to the MVP doe.

[L.Kizzle]

How far will the Blazers fall? Luckily, one of those weeks is All-Star week.

[Eric Cartman]

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[bdreason]

That sucks. I feel your pain Blazers fans. Hopefully Batum and others can step their game up to keep Portland in HCA range.

[Fork]

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit

[bdreason]

Terrible news for my 2nd favorite team in the NBA. :facepalm

[AnaheimLakers24]

He wont.
Yes he will. Doesnt mean team will be winning

[keep-itreal]

Time to blow it up

[SpecialQue]

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[KNOW1EDGE]

Good thing they play Boston at home tonight.

Jermaine O'Neal needs to be by his phone, expect a call.

Lillard bout to move up in the race for MVP

Blazers will get through this, Lopez coming back very soon. Leonard has been playing MUCH better lately and same with Thomas Robinson.

Rest up LMA and get ready for a playoff run.

/notworried

[Milbuck]

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:biggums: :roll:

[BlazerRed]

No Lopez.. No Freeland and now no Aldridge..

This ****ing sucks.

[Duggrr]

Dear Christ.

[YouGotServed]

Bye bye playoffs.

[Heavincent]

Bye bye playoffs.

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[Demon Lizard]

That sucks. I feel your pain Blazers fans. Hopefully Batum and others can step their game up to keep Portland in HCA range.

Well Batum didn't tonight. 0 for 6. He is really starting to piss me off.

[KG215]

Not a good start to lose at home to the Celtics. Even if they didn't have LMA, that's still a game they should've been able to win, especially at home.

[BigTicket]

This really sucks, too many injuries this year :banghead:

The Blazers will still make the playoffs though, they just have to win ~48 games for the season, which only requires them to go 17-21 from now on.

[bigt]

Damn the Trailblazers frontcourt depth is getting seriously tested. Big loss for a legitimately good team, wanted to see them do well this post-season. Not to say they can't, but this is going to make their post season race that much more difficult, especially dropping games to Boston

[imnew09]

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Thug Life:bowdown: