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Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook has never missed a single game in his high school, college and NBA career.
Until now.
Shocking news broke on Friday when it was announced that the guard will need knee surgery after suffering a torn meniscus in Game 2 against the Houston Rockets when he collided with Patrick Beverly. The exact moment of the injury can be found here:
We all know at this point that Grizzlies center Marc Gasol is this season’s Defensive Player of the Year, but how many were unsatisfied by the results?
Players will always be unhappy when their best defensive player doesn’t get the award, and some will go on record about it. Manu Ginobili openly wondered how Tim Duncan didn’t win, and Dwight Howard thought the results were funny.
NBA players always seem to question what the media knows when the voting for awards don’t go a certain way. That was again the case when it was determined that Marc Gasol won the Defensive Player of the Year award this season.
Manu Ginobili, who has had the privilege of playing alongside the great defense of Tim Duncan all his career, clearly did not appreciate his big man getting snubbed for the award after having yet another impacting presence on the defensive end for one of the best teams in the league. Here is what he had to say, from Mike Monroe of San Antonio Express-News:
The Los Angeles Lakers, although they finished the season on a very strong note, have greatly underachieved this season. We all know this.
For that, most want to blame Mike D’Antoni for his inability to make better use of the talent he has. Any time you have four Hall of Fame-level players on the same team (which doesn’t happen very often), you have the responsibility of doing big things. If you don’t, the blame goes on you. It’s as simple as that.
Or is it?
Jerry West – the NBA great and now a consultant for the Golden State Warriors - doesn’t think D’Antoni deserves half the amount of criticism he has gotten over the course of the season.
Seventh Woods. This is a name that we’re all going to constantly hear about for the next four to five years.
You may or may not have seen the incredible video of this 6’2″, 14-year-old freshman that former NBA player John Salley is raving about, but it’s worth a watch either way. Again and again:
There is good reason that the clip, only about a week old, already has nearly 5.7 million views: when is the last time you saw a freshman in high school move and play like that? His athleticism is already jaw-dropping, given his age, and to borrow a quote from the great Mark Jackson, the kid makes grown-man moves. There are players of his size in the NBA that can’t do the things he is already displaying. Scarier is the fact that he’s probably still growing – in every sense of the word. If he has the proper guidance and work ethic over the next few years, he could end up being the best player with the most hype to enter the NBA since LeBron James, with one hell of a marketable name.
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