Anyone watching basketball knows what I’m talking about.
A Louisville player does a routine jump to challenge a shot and comes down - and his leg snaps in half with bone protruding. It happened right in front of Louisville’s bench, and more than one player threw up. You can find footage of it all over the place if you want to see it.
Hint: You don’t.
That was pretty horrifying. Definitely not something I needed to see right after Easter dinner! :eek:
It took my stunned brain a second to process that I was actually seeing bone coming out of someone’s leg and their foot just flopping around loosely. Then I screamed and covered my face. Absolutely horrific injury, I’ve never seen anything that graphic in all my years of watching sports
I wonder if there was some underlying issue with the bone already? I mean, he just landed on the floor, not particularly awkwardly from what I could tell, and his leg snapped in multiple places. Maybe a lesion or a preexisting stress fracture? It’s additionally horrifying to think that this could just. . .happen.
I initially assumed that his playing career had to be certainly over, and wondered aloud to my wife if he would never walk again. But then after the game Rick Pitino said that a Louisville football player had suffered the same injury and returned to top form. Sure enough, I discovered after Googling: Michael Bush, the Bears running back, spent two years out of football but is now a millionaire NFL player. Reading Wikipedia about Bush, it appears the Raiders used the top pick in the fourth round to take him even though he was still on crutches at the time, and had to skip his entire rookie season. How, I wonder, could they have known he would ever be worth that? First pick of the fourth-round is a pretty decent draft pick in football.
HOLY CRAP! I was watching the game still hungover, saw Kevin go down and I thought he hit his elbow the way he landed. Then I see the replay. FUCK! Bad landing, freak accident. Seems like most major sports injuries are accidents (Theisman and Clint Malarchuk). Poor kid! Heal well, Kevin! You’ll be back! Whew! More crack in this game than a columbian drug cartel.
Also, the slo-mo replay showing the bench reaction is priceless. Looked like Kevin holds his leg up, like, “Am I okay?” And the bench gave him the answer he wasn’t looking for.
Pretty damn horrific, but at least modern medicine can get people back on their feet after that. In the old days they would have probably had to amputate.
Of course, there could be complications but I wish the man a full and speedy recovery.
I didn’t see it live, but I’ve seen the replays. I don’t know if the injury is actually worse, but on screen it definitely looks worse than Theismann. I think we might have a new standard of terrible televised sports injury.
I’ve edited the title to make it a little more descriptive.
Maybe a better description would have been “[CRACK] ‘AAAHHHHHHHH!!!’ [Vomit splatters on the floor] Eeewwwwww!”
Actually I knew from the first title what it was about. I’m happy they pulled off a win for him.
Worst Louisville leg break since Barbaro?
Worst Louisville break since Sammy Sosa?
I had the same reaction as when Joe Theisman got his injury
“Looks like his knee buckled”
“Wait! That’s not where the knee is!”
:eek:
I’ll pass on this one. I had a hard enough time watching the one where pro wrestler Sid Vicious did the same thing after jumping off the ropes, and there weren’t even any bones involved in that one–just a leg flopping in a direction that legs were never meant to flop. I’ll skip this one, I think. :eek:
People sure are squeamish. I was looking for a good close up shot of the broken leg and didn’t find much except something showing an extra bend underneath a sock.
But man! What a freak accident! Basketball players jump around like that a lot. I guess if you land in just the right way it could happen to anyone, but it’s a pretty unusual thing to see.
The Sid Vicious (aka Sycho Sid) incident was the first thing I thought of when I saw the injury; that’s what can happen when you come straight down on one leg.
Most of the reports I have heard say, “He might be recovered by the start of next season (mid-October), if they do the surgery right away.” Still, it’s a good thing they were in Indianapolis, as they could probably just walk to the NCAA headquarters building with a request for a medical redshirt (so he would still have his one “normal” redshirt year if necessary, assuming he hasn’t used it already).
And look at what the Louisville women did to Baylor a few hours later. (Meanwhile, the Baylor coach complained about the officiating in her press conference after the game, and all but dared the NCAA to fine her/Kansas, which is what they threaten to do when this happens.)
BTW, for anyone looking for footage, don’t bother watching ESPN; they are making it a point not to air it.
This one is worse than Theismann’s if for no other reason than that we have HD footage of this. It was so gruesome. There’s a still photo out there that shows the bloody snapped bone sticking out in full HD.
Edit for Troppus and others’ “benefit”:
Here’s the link. It’s pretty damn graphic and borderline NSFW.
It’s just a flesh wound.
I had an immediate flashback to when my daughter broke her femur in a high school basketball game. Not something I recommend for parents to see happen.
Re: Louisville/Baylor. Shoni Schimmel and her sister Jude are both Umatilla Indians from eastern Oregon. Shoni was the star player for a Portland high school; her story is an interesting one.
I’m pretty sure you can’t get a medical redshirt after playing in all but 2 games of your team’s season!
I wonder if he doesn’t have a bone tumor in that area which weakened the bone. It is unusual for a healthy young person to break a bone like that.
Cool! Thanks.
Amazingly it was reported this morning on the TV that he may recover fully and be able to continue his basketball career.