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Damn, Raptors do suck on the road
The NBA won't take any additional action against the Raptors' Rasho Nesterovic for a flagrant foul when he hit the Nuggets' Reggie Evans in the face. Evans, who said the foul was intentional, believed Nesterovic should have been fined.
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Damn, Raptors do suck on the road
Jorge Garbajosa-- out for the rest of the year. At minimum, a broken ankle- Rasho burying his face in his hands was all I needed to see to know how bad it was. Jorge was yelling loudly in pain and was wheleed off on a stretcher.
No!!!!! What happened????
Lots of speculation as to the extent of the injury...
Doug Smith
Sports Reporter
BOSTON – Losing the game is one thing - the Raptors have shown a remarkable ability to rebound from such desultory affairs - but the loss of Jorge Garbajosa here Monday night is what is going to hurt them more than anything.
On a night when they played one of their most lethargic games of the season, dropping a 95-87 decision to the Boston Celtics, the Raptors also lost their 29-year-old rookie small forward with a broken leg suffered in a ghastly fall with 4.5 minutes remaining.
Trying to block an Al Jefferson dunk, Garbajosa landed awkwardly on his left leg, which practically snapped. As he lay on the court with his foot twisted out at right angle to his leg, it appeared to be one of the ugliest injuries a Raptor has ever suffered.
He was taken off the court on a stretcher and to a local hospital for treatment...
http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/196314
Why does that happen to good guys ?
Raps are having such a good season, that's frustrating
Teammates and opponents couldn't bear to watch as Garbajosa yelled in pain.
Thanks for the information Ploto.
I feel so bad for Jorge.
I will pray for him. I am sure his team mates will too.
I love the Jurrasic Park movies because of the Raptors in it
Doctors say surgery to repair Jorge Garbajosa’s broken left ankle and ligament damage around the joint was successful but don’t think he’ll be able to play basketball for six months.
The 28-year-old Raptor forward went through a 90-minute procedure at Toronto Western Hospital this afternoon to repair a displaced left ankle joint with a ligament tear and fractured fibula suffered in a grisly incident during a game in Boston on Monday.
“We are pleased with the reduction of the fracture and restoration of his displaced ankle joint,” Dr. Paul Marks, the team’s medical director, who assisted noted foot and ankle surgeon Dr. Johnny Lau in the procedure, said in a statement released by the team. “Everything is restored to an appropriate anatomic position, and we will now await post-operative recovery and healing of the soft tissue and fracture.”
Garbajosa faces a long, arduous rehabilitation process, one that could take up to six months because of the soft tissue (ligament) part of the injury, the team’s statement said.
The Raptors have 12 games left in this season and whatever number of playoff games they play. Garbajosa won’t be back until the start of training camp next October and his ability to play with his native Spain at the European championships in September is also in doubt.
The chance to play for Spain was important to Garbajosa, and his Toronto teammate Jose Calderon. They were members of the Spanish team that won the world championships gold medal last fall in Japan and were going to be playing in front of home fans for the first time.
http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/196603
Tks Ploto
Ditto that.
Speedy recovery, Jorge!
Big win over the Heat! 96-83
Rasho with a 5 of 6 night for 10 points (1 dunk)- 4 boards and 2 blocks. He held Shaq to 3/8 when he was in the game.
Fear the Sho! That's what I'm talking about.
Nice win guys!
Update on Garbo. Nice to see some humor in it.
Raptors may have tough task in slowing down injured forward Garbajosa
LINKTORONTO — If Jorge Garbajosa’s recovery depends on how motivated he is to get back on the court, the people that know the Toronto Raptors forward best say that won’t be a problem.
Garbajosa is expected to be out six months after suffering a season-ending ankle injury Monday night in Boston. But few would be surprised to see him back sooner — and that’s not necessarily a good thing.
Raptors assistant GM Maurizio Gherardini says the toughest task may be to slow the Spaniard down.
“I’ve had a few Garbo years under the belt, and I know that’s going to be the problem, because he’s such a fierce compe or in everything he does,” said Gherardini. “He’s not going to accept, mentally, that he’s injured. And we’re going to have a tough time to make him understand that he’s injured. That’s going to be the difficult task on his part.”
The Spaniard underwent surgery Tuesday to repair a displaced left ankle joint with ligament tear and fractured fibula at Toronto Western Hospital.
He was released from hospital Wednesday morning.
Dr. Paul Marks, the Raptors medical director who assisted in Garbajosa’s surgery, met with reporters before the Raptors faced the Miami Heat on Wednesday at the Air Canada Centre and said the procedure went well, and there’s no reason to believe the 29-year-old won’t return to top playing form.
“Everything is in the right position now, everything’s lined up,” Marks said of the surgery to secure Garbajosa’s ankle. “I think absolutely the goal, intention, quest to get him back to the status he was at before.”
Garbajosa suffered the gruesome injury late in Toronto’s 95-87 loss to the Celtics, and the loss was a big blow to a Raptors squad chasing its first division le in franchise history and first playoff berth since the 2001-02 season.
At Wednesday’s game, one fan held a sign that read “For Jorge.”
Raptors television personality Chuck Swirsky said he’d received over 1,100 e-mails from fans about Garbajosa.
He was averaging 8.5 points and 4.9 rebounds, and scored a career-high 22 points in Friday’s win over Denver. But the six-foot-nine forward is also one of the team’s top defenders, and a smart player and team leader whose contributions are not always obvious on the stats sheet.
“Everybody likes him so much as a person,” said Gherardini. “They always envision him as the loyal fighting warrior that the game should have. And they all love him because of that. Name one country in Europe — I had phone calls, messages from all of them.”
Gherardini was watching the Celtics game on TV back in Toronto with fellow Raptors rookie Andrea Bargnani, who had undergone an appendectomy a week earlier.
“(Bargnani) was pale before, but he got even paler,” said Gherardini, laughing.
Gherardini, who was the GM at Benetton Treviso when Garbajosa played for the Italian league team, was with Garbajosa at the hospital before and after the surgery. He kidded with Garbajosa when he woke up from surgery, telling him “You don’t play tonight.”
LINKIt made for a relatively stress-free night for Raptors head coach Sam Mitc , who was weakened by a bout of food poisoning that caused him to miss the team's morning shootaround.
It was just a coincidence that Mitc began feeling his first pangs of nausea as he was visiting Garbajosa in hospital on Tuesday...
Garbajosa's toughness carried over to the operating table, where he made do with only spinal anesthetic so that he could be awake during the 90-minute surgery to realign his broken fibula and have two screws inserted in his ankle.
Some good medical news for once...
Andrea Bargnani expects to start full basketball work in a week and play as soon after that as he can.
The 7-foot Raptor rookie did some light jogging at the Air Canada Centre today, his first work in the gym since having his appendix removed eight days ago.
"I will wait one more week to do contact, to have basketball contact and I can start gradually to get my shape back," he said. "If she says after one week I'm okay, I'll need a couple of practices and then (I can) play.
The Raptors, who are off to face the Washington Wizards tomorrow night, dearly need Bargnani back and healthy for the playoffs. While they've been able to get through his absence in the short term, not having his defence-stretching shooting coming off the bench would be a crippling long-term blow.
Bargnani, who made a silky-smooth three-pointer the first time he touched a ball after his short workout, said the pain from the procedure is pretty much gone.
"There is a little, but that's normal," he said.
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That is one prayer answered. Yea!
Mo Pete Ties It!!!
Sheed Style!
What a game
Arenas, Dixon and Mo Pete hitting sick 3 pointers in the last minute of the regulation.
and Bosh owning the OT.
Hope EPSN is enjoying their crappy game between IND and ORL that they chose to show instead of this immediate classic! It had everything-- big 3's-- blocks by both teams-- and a Superstar who took over in OT. I can not believe that Mo ended up with that ball and made the 3-- when he had not even played the entire regulation but the last 9 seconds.
Props to Joey Graham for a great job starting in Garbo's place with 12 big boards.
And great 4th quarter by Dixon who was struggling all night.
Love these assist numbers:
Calderon 8
Parker 7
Ford 6
Bosh 5
Raptors win and have the series at 3-1 for tiebreak purposes.
Just followed the game by numbers. Nice to see the raptors doing well. Meeting a veteren team like the heat in the playoffs will be a great challenge for you guys.
sucks to be michael ruffin.....
morris peterson with a clutch 3....... that was a really good game
Youtube might be a good place to look for a clip of Mo's RIDICULOUS shot.
Just saw that.....oh-my-god ; funniest play of the history-
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