OT - Paul George Injury
Just heard about the Paul George broken leg; neither of the 2 local 11 PM news channels showed it so I imagine it is pretty gruesome. I don't want to see it but is it Kevin Ware, Shaun Livingston like for those who did see it. Please don't post embed if you reply :P a link to it is fine.
August 1st, 2014 at 11:46 PM ^
August 1st, 2014 at 11:51 PM ^
I was talking with my wife, who is a radiologist, about this injury. She suggested, not surprisingly, that there is an underlying reason for a bone to snap as in the case of Kevin Ware, such as a preexisting stress fracture or some genetic anamoly which had previously gone undetected. .
I'm sure one of our orthopedist members could offer more details.
August 1st, 2014 at 11:47 PM ^
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:43 AM ^
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:54 AM ^
It was gruesome. If you're sqeamish about seeing serious injuries, you should skip the video for this one.
August 1st, 2014 at 11:48 PM ^
August 2nd, 2014 at 10:00 AM ^
August 1st, 2014 at 11:49 PM ^
August 1st, 2014 at 11:49 PM ^
http://lockerdome.com/menshumor/6170044958788673/6847101992847636
A non-gruesome view. You can barely see the ugly "wrong way bend", but low-res and from a far angle.
August 1st, 2014 at 11:49 PM ^
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:00 AM ^
What are you going to ban someone for embedding a video of a sports play that aired on TV? Anyone who's clicked the thread and read the OP knows that it is a Theisman-level broken leg.
Come on.
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:02 AM ^
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:11 AM ^
Wow.... You clearly implied something worse than deleting posts...
Okay, the Boston Marathon vs. a basketball player breaking a leg (not even a compound fracture).
Yes, it's kinda gruesome. But to compare it to a terrorist attack and those pictures of people missing limbs and blood everywhere... Methinks you didn't watch any of the video before laying down your potential "punishments."
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:12 AM ^
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:22 AM ^
Embeds are likely to be deleted and depending on the situation might mean something more serious for future posting.
Your words. I'm not arguing that you shouldn't delete embeds if you feel that's necessary. That's why I didn't embed and just provided a link with the most accurate description I thought I could provide. But whatever you're "more serous future" punishment is, I feel we can do without the threats though.
*Some are saying it's a compound... The standard TV view doesn't show if that is so.
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:26 AM ^
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:31 AM ^
Fair enough!
I'm buzzed and probably looking for an argument. Which is insane because AA is awesome right now and I just had an excellent night w/ friends and am ready for an early August Football Saturday. I just wanted to throw down some anti-establishmentarianism.
August 1st, 2014 at 11:51 PM ^
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:16 AM ^
It definitely pierced through the skin. I'm pretty sure the bone made a mark on the floor when he "landed"
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:18 AM ^
August 1st, 2014 at 11:57 PM ^
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:02 AM ^
Won't know for certain until official diagnosis, but it looks like a tibula-fibula fracture--the same injury that Fitz Toussaint suffered in 2012 and Kevin Ware in 2013. Significant injury, but the recovery is much better than what one would expect compared to how gruesome it looks. He could be back in 6-9 months.
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:02 AM ^
Disturbing...
I googled "disturbing" and this popped up...
latest surgery gone bad?
You are a brave, brave man
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:07 AM ^
Though I don't know if it was as gruesome as Louisville's Kevin Ware with six or seven inches of his tibia sticking out of his leg.
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:15 AM ^
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:47 AM ^
This is "UN-PC" and I might get negged but I don't care:
"Praying for Paul George" is trending on Twitter. PG broke his leg and will have the BEST medical treatment available to humankind.
Wouldn't it be amazing if we prayed for starving kids in (not just Africa, but) AMERICA. Or poor kids in LA or kids with cancer or whatever.
Sorry, I am just sick of the selective outrage by celebrities and others. A rich, "important" person gets hurt and it's awful. An unknown poor kid dies because his alcoholic parents didn't care for him and we ignore it.
Imagine the good that could be done if we recognized how many kids in America grow up in poverty and sickness.
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:49 AM ^
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:52 AM ^
I agree with you, but my point was that poverty is a major issue in America that gets overlooked more than anything.
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:55 AM ^
August 2nd, 2014 at 12:49 AM ^
You're doing everything right mang. +1
August 2nd, 2014 at 10:31 AM ^
Are you saying that, even if he is unable to play basketball at the same level he has the past couple years, he may be fine when he looks at the $80M plus the Pacers will pay him through 2018?
Yeah, you may be right.
You sure about that?
I think you would also have to get over the mental block of DEAR GOD HAVING YOUR ENTIRE LEG SNAP IN HALF at any time as well.
August 2nd, 2014 at 10:53 AM ^
I agree. I broke my Tibia and Fibula in a high school football game. I didn't have a compound break since the bones weren't sticking out, but my leg was at a right angle. Hurt like a bitch. I did it in October and was playing basketball in an air cast by late February. Now i was like 15 or 16 when that happened so i'm not sure if being a bit younger helped it to heal a bit faster. But i've always felt broken bones were an easier thing to come back from than an ACL.
I saw it live and that was a nasty injury. I have seen many others like that though.
How gruesome? I was playing b ball in front of Mary Markley dorm in 1990 when a guy passed me the ball and just as it reached my hand, another guy's hand tried to intercept and instead got my pinkey stuck between his hand and the ball, snapping they pinky 90 degrees sideways at the second knuckle. While screaming "THIS PUPPY'S WASTED!" over and over at the top of my lungs I tried to pop it back in place but the ligaments acted like rubber bands and snapped it right back to a gruesome 90 degrees. UM hospital straightened it out but I never could play guitar well again. THAT gruesome.