Tony Allen: Dumb of the Year so far

[v2freak]

Bad year for Boston teams. The Red Sox and the Celtics couldn't avoid the injury bug. It was a bit of showboating, I must admit. But you never know, sometimes they do give you and1s. I remember one time Parker had the ball and was curling off a screen and there was a foul down low. Parker hesitated, then shot it/made it, and got a 3 point play.

Freak accidents do happen. Gabe Kapler got injured running the bases on someone else's home run for example.

[Mr. Body]

I had him in my fantasy league as well. The guy was really turning it on for a bad Celtics team. What a freak injury and I hope he comes back in good form.

[RonMexico]

Uh ... you do watch Amare Stoudemire play basketball, don't you? How many times has he done what Tony Allen did over the years? Pre-injury, he'd dunk after almost every whistle. Not to mention Nash shooting all the time after the whistle. If Nash shot after the whistle and came down and broke his ankle, I don't think you'd be laughing.

I wasn't laughing - I was saying that it wasn't "finishing the play" though... I don't really like it when any NBA players do that after the whistle is blown and my coach used to make me run every time I'd shoot after he blew a whistle in practice. This should just serve as a lesson that you shouldn't run down the lane for an unecessary dunk when you're fouled at the 3 pt line. When Amare does this kind of stuff - he's generally already under/around the hoop, so his greatest potential injury is to the ankle.

[boutons_]

"If Nash shot after the whistle and came down and broke his ankle,"

first of all, I don't like any plays after the ball is dead. Nor am I glad anybody's hurt.

An uncontested, low-energy Nash jumpshot is not that risky.

After the whistle, driving 20 ft down the lane, jumping 4 ft in the air, dunking, then hanging on the rim (increases the risk), when you've already had one knee operation, is just ing playground stupid. No matter what anybody thinks about it, he doesn't deserve it, but he did this to himself.

[spurtime]

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