When it comes to professional sports there is never a perfect season, teams encounter losses, upsets and most threatening of all, injuries. The past couple weeks have been a frightening scene for some NBA players.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are on a three game loosing streak, and many believe it is due to their superstar encountering a bruised index finger last week against my Detroit Pistons. That’s one way to put a stop to the leagues leading scorer. If you ask me I think he is just being soft, you have players playing coming off major surgeries and playing games. Of course there is always going to be someone defending the all-star.
''It's a slow process, the injury he has,'' Brown said. ''It's a funny injury when you're talking about your knuckles and your fingers. When you get that ball in your hand, you have a lot of guys swiping at it. Officials think he's the strongest human in the world, but it's a tough thing to have to deal with.''
LeBron is not the only player whose stumbled upon an injury. On Sunday former MVP, Tim Duncan, bruised his right knee and sprained his right ankle, he has more to complain about than LeBron does. Unlike the Cavaliers, the Spurs still managed to pull off a win against Portland that night without Duncan. Doctors say he should be back within the next few games.
When players get injured they tend to think it is the end of the world, “He does so much for our team as far as getting guys looks at the basket, making big shots and pretty much doing everything,’’ teammate Daniel Gibson said.
What if it wasn’t about a hurt knee or a rolled ankle, what if it was something that you couldn’t rehab or bring back? New York Knicks were left with a loss against Phoenix last night 115-109, but that was the least of their worries after the game. Knicks guard, Stephon Marbury, experienced the death of his father last night. No injury or loss amounts to this type of pain. Donald Marbury Sr. was only sixty-eight years old and appeared at Marbury’s game last night against the Phoenix Suns till half time than left due to heart pain. This is more than physical pai, mental pain is one of the hardest things to overcome. The sad thing is, is that Marbury had no idea till after the game.
“I walk by faith and not by sight. JESUS lives in me, and he will guide me through this. This (too) shall pass,” Marbury added in grief.
I have empathy for the NBA guard; it just shows you that no one is promised tomorrow. That just leaves me saying that cherish everyday and never take it for granite. Sources say that Marbury will be gone for at least a week and the team plans on supporting him by attending the funeral.
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I have just a small question: are the quotes you're using here from the hyperlinks?
This is good data, and I guess only time will tell if these injured players are having issues phyically as intensively as they are mentally (or what it seems to be).
Make sure, also, to read through this for plural vs. possessive use (Knicks' guard, league's leading...).
I agree Lebron is a softie. But, most of the time coach's pull out their all-stars just so they do not get hurt anymore. I know when Vince Carter sprained his ankle and had to sit out two games, that New Jersey was feeling the lost. However, Tim Duncan never gets out of a game unless he thought it was serious. It blows for that guard. He has to suffer pain like that hwich lasts longer than physical pain. But the players have to push all their pain and problems away once they get on the court. Talk more about mental pain because you just started to tlak about and did not add anything else. You just dropped it. Try to talk more about it. Keep up the great work. -S
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