Jefferson Done For Season

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

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Net Loss: Jefferson Out For Season
ESPN.com's Marc Stein reports New Jersey Nets' forward Richard Jefferson will undergo surgery on his left wrist and miss the rest of the season. An announcement by the Nets is expected later Tuesday.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

I guess there was too many reach arounds given during the offseason by Air Gay.

[Useruser666]

What was it his dunking wrist?

[boutons]

damn, Nets are snakebit. RJ was having a career year.

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Nets' Leading Scorer Out for Rest of Season

January 11, 2005
By JASON DIAMOS

Any flickering hopes the Nets had of being an Eastern
Conference contender this season were all but dashed today
when the team's president, Rod Thorn, announced that the
Nets' leading scorer, Richard Jefferson, would be lost for
the season with a wrist injury.

"Richard has a ruptured ligament in his left wrist which
will require surgery," Thorn said in a conference call.
"He'll have surgery sometime in the next couple of weeks,
and it's basically a four-month rehab, so he will in effect
be out for the season."

Thorn said Jefferson, the fourth-year swingman from Arizona
who averaged 22.2 points in 33 games this season,
originally injured the wrist on Dec. 27 in a 100-90
overtime loss at Detroit. Thorn said Jefferson thought the
rupture might have occurred when he re-injured the wrist in
Milwaukee last Wednesday night. Nevertheless, he played
against Golden State on Friday and at Orlando on Saturday.
Against the Magic, the right-handed Jefferson made just 6
of his 19 shots from the floor.

As recently as Monday afternoon, Jefferson insisted that he
was fine. But a magnetic resonance imaging test the same
day revealed the ruptured tendon.

"This is a tough blow," Thorn said. "Richard, in my mind,
is an All-Star player this year."

The Detroit game in which Jefferson was injured marked the
debut of Vince Carter with the Nets. Carter came to New
Jersey from Toronto on Dec. 17 in a blockbuster deal that
gave the Nets, who have won three consecutive Atlantic
Division titles, hope that they could contend for a fourth.


But the Nets were just 3-5 with Carter, a five-time
All-Star, in their lineup heading into tonight's rematch
with the Pistons at Continental Arena. At 12-21, the Nets
enter tonight's game in last place in the Atlantic
Division. But they were only four and a half games behind
the first-place Knicks, and just three games out of the
eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff berth.

"I think if you talk to our players, our coach, and
obviously to me, we're not going to give up," Thorn said.
"And I'm going to keep trying to get some pieces."

But with Jefferson lost for the season, Thorn admitted, he
might have to try to obtain those pieces with the future in
mind.

Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company

[SpursWoman]

So Kidd goes home and smacks his wife.............. :fro



I almost feel sorry for him for not going with the Spurs. Almost.

[ALVAREZ6]

That sucks for NJ.