Chet broke his pelvis and is out at least 2 months.

[Kblaze8855]

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Heavy on the “At least”.

[tpols]

Well... that sucks. Some of these guys are too skinny to be centers, makes me hope wemby will make it. They need to eat more and maybe juice up.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Broken pelvis just sounds awful. That's directly on the spine and the hip. Probably messed up his whole core. I don't know how severe the break is but I doubt he's a regular big minute player again this season.

[1987_Lakers]

:mad:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/945097211118395308/DD1F58A8736287BE2579E76A4C6F149F0A102770/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

[Kblaze8855]

Well... that sucks. Some of these guys are too skinny to be centers, makes me hope wemby will make it. They need to eat more and maybe juice up.


There is something to be said for size inside. Jeff Ruland would have stone walled that drive


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All you can hope is it isn’t lasting in the form of back pain. That’s a bitch. That derails careers.

[Axe]

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[Carbine]

And the Celtics 2025 title just got its first injury asterisk.

The Celtics and Celtic fans knew OKC was their biggest competition.

[tpols]

And the Celtics 2025 title just got its first injury asterisk.

The Celtics and Celtic fans knew OKC was their biggest competition.

Knicks coming for they ass. :lol

I think I might be a Knicks fan now. I'm a fairweather type of guy.

[tpols]

There is something to be said for size inside. Jeff Ruland would have stone walled that drive


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All you can hope is it isn’t lasting in the form of back pain. That’s a bitch. That derails careers.

Mullet and mustache combo is a problem. That's country white boy strength even MJ couldn't posterize. J̌ordan also fell harder on his hip than chet there, ironically.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Celtics aren't worried about the Knicks at all. You can't be a tough team when KAT is your center. A little surprising that Celtic haters haven't flocked to Cleveland yet.
Celtics can beat them any way they want to.
And the Celtics 2025 title just got its first injury asterisk.

The Celtics and Celtic fans knew OKC was their biggest competition. In what season does no one get hurt? Porzingis hasn't stepped on the floor yet but does anyone care? No. And that's fine but you guys want to act like the Celtics failed the test when in reality they were just so good that the test of the league failed to test them.

[highwhey]

There is something to be said for size inside. Jeff Ruland would have stone walled that drive


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All you can hope is it isn’t lasting in the form of back pain. That’s a bitch. That derails careers.

did mj get hurt on that play? like he was out on injury after it?

because today that would result in a player sitting out 3-4 weeks lol

[jayfan]

Here's a medical/sports journal article on his exact injury - iliac wing fracture.


https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3143337/


He'll recover fully, and will return this season, but will likely be out 3-4 months.

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[Real Men Wear Green]

Here's a medical/sports journal article on his exact injury - iliac wing fracture.


https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3143337/


He'll recover fully, and will return this season, but will likely be out closer to 3-4 months.

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I hope this is the case. I'm no expert but I'm expecting him to come back load managed, never playing over 30 minutes and no back to backs.

[highwhey]

Here's a medical/sports journal article on his exact injury - iliac wing fracture.


https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3143337/


He'll recover fully, and will return this season, but will likely be out 3-4 months.

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i was pretty sure they'd be a top 1 or 2 seed in the conference, not so sure anymore

[tontoz]

Celtics aren't worried about the Knicks at all. You can't be a tough team when KAT is your center. A little surprising that Celtic haters haven't flocked to Cleveland yet.
Celtics can beat them any way they want to. In what season does no one get hurt? Porzingis hasn't stepped on the floor yet but does anyone care? No. And that's fine but you guys want to act like the Celtics failed the test when in reality they were just so good that the test of the league failed to test them.


People are desperate to discredit teams they don't like. They will pretend Boston hasn't had injuries.

Chet should be back by the playoffs.

I don't see the Knicks as a threat either. Not sold on the Cavs.

Dont sleep on Denver.

[Axe]

People are desperate to discredit teams they don't like. They will pretend Boston hasn't had injuries.

Chet should be back by the playoffs.

I don't see the Knicks as a threat either. Not sold on the Cavs.

Dont sleep on Denver.
It sounds like you dislike giddey tho, uncle. A former teammate of chet. :kobe:

[bison]

Look at this sh1t. This is NOT an injury report, it’s literally just the NBA’s top headlines of the day. This is what NBA news looks like now. And sadly the only way to fix the injury problem is the one the NBA is unwilling to do: slow down the game by allowing defenders to defend again.

https://i.ibb.co/h1Y8fKf/IMG-2622.jpg

[Kblaze8855]

did mj get hurt on that play? like he was out on injury after it?

because today that would result in a player sitting out 3-4 weeks lol

Didn’t miss a second if I remember correctly. That was like the 5th shot attempt of Jordan’s career. He played 40 minutes that game and all 82 that year.

[highwhey]

Didn’t miss a second if I remember correctly. That was like the 5th shot attempt of Jordan’s career. He played 40 minutes that game and all 82 that year.

he's tuff

[ILLsmak]

*graphic video warning*

-Smak

[Wally450]

And the Celtics 2025 title just got its first injury asterisk.

The Celtics and Celtic fans knew OKC was their biggest competition.

Minnesota and Denver are our biggest competition.

[coin24]

He’s way too frail and lanky to be jumping for a block attempt against something like that:oldlol:
Went down like a rag doll.
He needs to eat more that’s ridiculous.

[Kblaze8855]

People are desperate to discredit teams they don't like. They will pretend Boston hasn't had injuries.


Youre older than me so I’ll ask….

You recall a team not having to eliminate a franchise player 3 rounds in a row?

Most I recall is two.

It was a legit weird ass run that didn’t tell us much.

[tontoz]

Youre older than me so I’ll ask….

You recall a team not having to eliminate a franchise player 3 rounds in a row?

Most I recall is two.

It was a legit weird ass run that didn’t tell us much.


I dont really keep tabs on injuries. None of the teams in the east were a threat to Boston even if healthy. Their only threat in the east was their own apathy. Assuing the Knicks were 100% healthy maybe they get to game 6 but the way Thibs pushes players there was no way that team would be healthy by the ECF.

Plenty of people thought Dallas was a legit threat. Before the series a lot of people picked Dallas to beat Boston and Boston punk'd them.

They won the east by 14 games ffs. Lets not pretend they would have had a tough road with everyone healthy.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Youre older than me so I’ll ask….

You recall a team not having to eliminate a franchise player 3 rounds in a row?

Most I recall is two.

It was a legit weird ass run that didn’t tell us much.

While it's true that the East was beat up how much credit were the Celtics going to get for beating a bunch of 40- something win teams even at full strength? Did the Celtics get any sympathy for having to win the conference without their 20 ppg rim protector? And which EC team was going to give them a harder time than Dallas, the Western b m champion that came in full strength and got the shit beat of them anyway?

[Xiao Yao You]

Why would anyone have sympathy for the celtics? Did anyone really expect him to be healthy? Might be thinking of chet the same way with his 2nd serious injury in 3 years

[tontoz]

Yeah nobody remembers than Porzingus only played 7 of the 19 playoff games on the way to the title.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Why would anyone have sympathy for the celtics? Did anyone really expect him to be healthy? Might be thinking of chet the same way with his 2nd serious injury in 3 years

The same reason Celtics fans should be expected to sympathize with fans of other teams. Jimmy Butler isn't injury prone? The double standard is obvious.

[Kblaze8855]

I dont really keep tabs on injuries. None of the teams in the east were a threat to Boston even if healthy. Their only threat in the east was their own apathy. Assuing the Knicks were 100% healthy maybe they get to game 6 but the way Thibs pushes players there was no way that team would be healthy by the ECF.

Plenty of people thought Dallas was a legit threat. Before the series a lot of people picked Dallas to beat Boston and Boston punk'd them.

They won the east by 14 games ffs. Let’s not pretend they would have had a tough road with everyone healthy.

If the Knicks made the ecf they would have been playing without Brunson and Randle both. And with the Bucks having lost with no Giannis or Dame, Jimmy Butler not playing in the playoffs at all, and Mitchell, and Haliburton both missing the last 2 games(Jarrett Allen didn’t play at all….

It was just a serious “Why bother?” run which was the least compelling I can remember ever happening. The entire East Boston aside may as well not have existed. And not a single person forgets that one of Bostons 4ish stars was out a while. Everyone from Boston had been pointing it out for months. It’s common knowledge. But it just isn’t much to talk about compared to the Heat with no Butler, Cavs with no Mitchell or Allen, and Pacers with no Hali.

Those are just dogshit series and really put one of the nails in the possible coffin of my nba fanhood.

Ive never been so consistently forced to watch broken teams that flatly can’t compete and are wasting time suiting up.

It was 3 rounds of “Let’s just give it a respectable effort” ass series that had me for the first time ever finding something else to do at game time of nba playoffs.

I was on a cross country trip(well Kentucky to San Diego) staying mostly in casinos and nightly in walking down to sportsbooks and standing with fans talking and we all just wonder off from Celtic games. Just relative scrubs out there trying to play hard for pride.

Which is fine.

It just didn’t feel like the playoffs. They played one series worth watching and it was against a what…4-5 seed that fought its way there?

When the big matchup is a middling team that beat some other upstarts and got people excited because the opponent had played nobody worth mentioning it’s just a terrible playoffs.

They earned the ring. You can only play who is there. But those playoffs were god awful and you don’t have to hate the Celtics to feel that way.

I don’t think I actually dislike anyone on the whole roster. I just didn’t have to see them do anything worth talking about. I’m as much a junkie as anyone but I’m just not watching Andrew Nembhardt fight for his life vs a super team and coming away impressed they held him off.

Maybe they have something in the way worth talking about this year but last year was one of the least noteworthy runs of my life. Some 80s lakers shit except the lakers were beating teams that couldn’t compete that were generally not missing best players and then getting to the finals to play the Celtics, 76ers, or Pistons.

They ran into “Jesus Christ…” lineups in the finals to make up for beating up on nobodies.

The Celtics run is like if the Lakers played the Rockets without Hakeem, Jazz with no Malone, and lucked into a WCF vs a bum ass Warriors team that beat the Blazers because they had no Drexler and then had Chris Mullin go down against the Lakers on top of it….all to make the finals and play the Hawks.

It’s a ring. It counts. But them not having Ac Green for some of the playoffs doesn’t make it a run to take note of.

It’s not their fault. It just is what it is. Hopefully this year is different.

[tontoz]

This sounds like a you problem. I thought the playoffs were great but i recorded the games ahead of time and then decided which games to watch. I watched very few games live so i didn't have to watch the one sided mismatches in the east.

At times i would be recording the game and start watching at half time when it looked like a good one.

[Hey Yo]

This sounds like a you problem. I thought the playoffs were great but i recorded the games ahead of time and then decided which games to watch. I watched very few games live so i didn't have to watch the one sided mismatches in the east.

At times i would be recording the game and start watching at half time when it looked like a good one.

You check the outcomes of the games you record before deciding to watch them?

I record a lot also but make it a point to avoid the final score before watching.

[Kblaze8855]

Is me being bored and disinterested supposed to be a someone else problem?

Not that it is just me. The only reason some fans have been so defensive about it is the tremendous number of fans who weren’t impressed. If it were a “Me” probably they wouldn’t even have hard the complaint.

Youre free to enjoy what you want. Personally when I put time aside to watch the playoffs and enjoy the night I’m not looking for 40 minutes of Nembhard ice skating up a hill or the other Morris Twin having to go get 20 with Evan Mobley to lose by 20 with two all stars watching from the bench.

Thats Tuesday in December basketball….on a bad night. Not the second and third rounds of the playoffs after already having seen the Heat get swept(I think) with no Jimmy Butler.

Its just objectively worse basketball and a worse experience for everyone watching who can be honest about it.

Even Celtic fans would no doubt rather see Jimmy get beat. See Donovan get eliminated.

You take the W any way you can get it but you know a competitor would prefer to beat your real team. I’m sure some of those Celtics are competitive and if they play real teams this year will have a lot of justified shit to talk if they win.

But till it happens I just haven’t seen them make a run caring much about.

History won’t care because it never does. Just shows you won or lost. But that doesn’t do anything for me.

[tontoz]

You remind me of the NLU podcast guys complaining about all the commercials in golf telecasts. I just fast forward through them.

If a game is bad with key guys out i just delete it. No biggie.

Boston showed during the season they were the best team in the east by far. I have no reason to believe the outcome would have been different if the Bucks/Knicks/Cavs were healthy. Sure there would have been more good games to watch.

[Kblaze8855]

Do you not see how people prefer a playoff run not worthy of deletion because injuries make the matchup not just lopsided but virtually impossible?

[Xiao Yao You]

East sucks regardless of injuries.

[tontoz]

Do you not see how people prefer a playoff run not worthy of deletion because injuries make the matchup not just lopsided but virtually impossible?

Injuries are not a new thing. Every year people talk about asterisk titles because of whatever. Sometimes it seems like people are just looking for something to complain about.

Guys have to cover a lot more ground on defense now than they used to which inevitably leads to more injuries. I just don't see the point of complaining about it.

How many champs in recent history didn't benefit from injuries to opponents?

The whole topic is just pointless to me.

[Axe]

East sucks regardless of injuries.
Meltdown.

[Neal Romer]

Broken pelvis, ouch. Thats not gonna be a fun two months.

[Kblaze8855]

Injuries are not a new thing. Every year people talk about asterisk titles because of whatever. Sometimes it seems like people are just looking for something to complain about.

Guys have to cover a lot more ground on defense now than they used to which inevitably leads to more injuries. I just don't see the point of complaining about it.

How many champs in recent history didn't benefit from injuries to opponents?

The whole topic is just pointless to me.


Did I say anything about an asterisk? I was on here 20 years ago arguing with Laker fans trying to put an asterisk on Duncans 99 title after he won the second and they didn’t wanna acknowledge them both.

There’s a difference between saying someone doesn’t deserve something or it doesn’t exist and acknowledging that not all things are equally difficult to do and therefore adult deserve equal praise.

Not it is useful because sports talk itself is fairly useless. It’s just a waste of time discussing something that doesn’t matter. But within the world being discussed? It matters if the best players aren’t playing. It throws off the entire accomplishment evaluation system The world insist on using and it robs everyone of entertainment and the chance to see the best the best.

if it doesn’t matter to you if Steph Curry is playing or not when the Warriors play that’s OK. I have no problem with that. But if someone is going to talk about how they beat the Warriors, the fact that he isn’t playing is going to come up and it should. It is a relevant part of the discussion and is just ignoring the elephant in the room to pretend it isn’t there.

As long as people are insisting on making what you win be a large factor in evaluating players and teams who they play and don’t play is a relevant issue.

Like I said history won’t care. But I don’t think “In the end…ignorance makes this not matter” is the way to go.

Its true.

But if we are doing it that way we might as well not talk about anything.

History will barely record anything. But things will still be true.

[tontoz]

That is a dumb argument. The warriors with Steph have been a consistently great team. What great team in the east would have been a big threat to the Cs last year, if healthy? Nobody

The Cs would have been a huge favorite over every team in the east if everyone was healthy. It isn't like they dodged the LeBron Cavs.

[Kblaze8855]

You're having one of your weird contrarian days it seems. Nobody not being difficult for no reason needs it explained why a great team playing teams with 4 missing all stars in three series puts a damper on the playoffs and makes the run less interesting.

Im down to argue some questionable shit but playoffs being less interesting and impressive when your opponents are broken over and over and over?

Too indisputable to bother. So I’m gonna go find some dinner. You do you and maybe tune into some load management and injury ruined matchup that is just as interesting because immense talents being sidelined isn’t a factor worth considering in how much you wish to see the games.

[Im Still Ballin]

Ouch. Good thing they've got Hartenstein returning soon.

[tontoz]

You're having one of your weird contrarian days it seems. Nobody not being difficult for no reason needs it explained why a great team playing teams with 4 missing all stars in three series puts a damper on the playoffs and makes the run less interesting.

Im down to argue some questionable shit but playoffs being less interesting and impressive when your opponents are broken over and over and over?

Too indisputable to bother. So I’m gonna go find some dinner. You do you and maybe tune into some load management and injury ruined matchup that is just as interesting because immense talents being sidelined isn’t a factor worth considering in how much you wish to see the games.


You can't even make up your mind which argument you are making.

Is it "the games aren't as interesting with guys out"? If that's the case then don't watch the games. Duh

Is it the playoff run wasn't "worthy" because guys were out? That's ridiculous. They won the conference by 14 games. They already proved they were the best team in the east, by far. They don't need a playoff run against healthy opponents to prove they are better.

[tontoz]

You check the outcomes of the games you record before deciding to watch them?

I record a lot also but make it a point to avoid the final score before watching.

Yes, because I don't want to spend my time watching a bad game.

[Wardell Curry]

RIP to this guy's career.


https://youtu.be/o5z7JtEoU6g?t=180

This guy called it. 3 minute mark.

[Patrick Chewing]

That shit was bound to happen with how anorexic that kid is.

[Jasper]

when you are skinny and no muscle mass it is inevitable something will break.

[Kblaze8855]

It appears he’s ready to play. He might play next game

[tpols]

Hopefully they put him on a crazy high protein diet and some good PEDs. Too much talent to be hurt like that.

[Neal Romer]

Lets see how the Chetenstein experiment looks.

As good as the Thunder have been record wise, Im actually less convinced than I was before the season about them as a lock in the Western conference. Theres just too damn many good teams. Matchups are gonna matter in the playoffs and the Thunder arent invincible. But the availability of both their bigs simultaneously finally could take them to a different level. It almost certainly will but I dont know how quickly. This team is still very young. The regular season tends to favor that more than the playoffs.