Kobe Fractures Tibia: Out 6 weeks.

[Slava]

The bigger issue is that Kobe played the entire half with that injury, Steve Blake a couple of week's ago was misdiagnosed and played 2 games with an injury that he should have rehabbed on.

The coach and player can only take the medical advice available to them and the staff is quickly becoming one of the less reliable ones since the Blazers.

[Slava]

I'm just saying if you're going to hire a dumbass like Dantoni you better hire the Phoenix medical staff to keep the bodies going. Lin broke down, Billups broke down, Amare broke down, and Melo got hurt playing for the dumbass in NY. In LA we all know the injured list, ffs even Metta went down, and he'd probably would have killed Fish too. He needs the Phoenix medical staff to keep his players so if you're going to ignore his failing coaching resume and career, flawed system, bad pr skills, and inability to get along with stars you should at least get the damn medical staff right

Billlups tore his achilles while playing for the Clippers, unless Mike D'Antoni is telephoning injuries from NY to LA, he had nothing to do there.

[Kilroy]

The bigger issue is that Kobe played the entire half with that injury, Steve Blake a couple of week's ago was misdiagnosed and played 2 games with an injury that he should have rehabbed on.

The coach and player can only take the medical advice available to them and the staff is quickly becoming one of the less reliable ones since the Blazers.

He went down with 3:25 left in the 3rd. To be fair, it didn't seem like it bothered him that much. A fracture like that takes a lot of input from the patient to diagnose, or an MRI... They eventually went with the MRI when Kobe said it was still bothering him the next day.

I'm guessing Kobe said he was fine and that was that.

[DUNPHY]

Without reading the entire thread.. if its JUST a fractured Tibia.. I wouldnt be worried at all! Ive done it myself.. felt the same as any other severe ankle sprain. Was supposed to wear a cast for 6 weeks also.. and I was literally walking on my cast in the third week.. Most ankle sprains take anywhere from 2-3 to heal I would say. So this is definitely a minor thing.. if its JUST a fractured Tibia

[kblo247]

I'm just saying if you're going to hire a dumbass like Dantoni you better hire the Phoenix medical staff to keep the bodies going. Lin broke down, Billups broke down, Amare broke down, and Melo got hurt playing for the dumbass in NY. In LA we all know the injured list, ffs even Metta went down, and he'd probably would have killed Fish too. He needs the Phoenix medical staff to keep his players so if you're going to ignore his failing coaching resume and career, flawed system, bad pr skills, and inability to get along with stars you should at least get the damn medical staff right

Billlups tore his achilles while playing for the Clippers, unless Mike D'Antoni is telephoning injuries from NY to LA, he had nothing to do there.

Billups and Amare both went down in the first playoffs with Melo under dantoni. Billups got hurt with a lower leg injury long before the amnesty and Achilles pop. Amare also hurt his back. Melo was literally playing with Douglas, Fields, Jeffries, and Walker vs Boston because dantonis solution after the trade was running all three out there so that there was always one or two after the Denver trade

Hell last year our playoff push saw us lose in succession Pau, Metta, Nash, Kobe, Nash, Blake, and Meeks

[TonyMontana]

Hell last year our playoff push saw us lose in succession Pau, Metta, Nash, Kobe, Nash, Blake, and Meeks

You forgot Jordan Hill with his ankles. I think.

[kblo247]

There's a lot of blame being thrown around for Kobe's injury and his contract... But what about blaming the man hisself?
At some point Kobe has to be responsible for some of this, doesn't he? No one forced him to come back when he did, or to push as hard as he did when he came back... And no one forced him to sign that big ass ridiculous contract either and put all that added pressure on himself...

I guarantee you that contract is in his head, and proving the haters wrong was at least a little responsible for him driving himself too hard...

That is, if you believe this was a result of him being over used or driven too hard... And not just a freak accident or bad luck.

Problem is it lacked common sense to play him 30mpg for 6 games in 9 nights. That's on Dantoni out right as you can't ignore he had no problem coddling his **** boy Nash all preseason and to start the year with his minutes because that's his guy, and it's not a "travesty" to have the team adjust to him returning at a whim

Mitch and Jim can wear the dunce cap for not even trying to get another guard when Blake went out. They even had it reported they wouldn't be seeking a freaking G as kobe would just magically handle the duties and start there. That sound familiar? damn sure sounded like the Nash bs last year when Blake and Nash were out and they just had kobe do it while Morris and Duhon sucked donkey balls. How do you invest that contract in him and then repeat the same **** of basically Kobe's the BLACK MAMBA and will do it all no problem?

Kobe deserves blame for 2 things. 1 not telling them **** off and bring in some help to add depth because last year should have showed him what doing Nash's job would do to him. 2 not saying no I can't go back in vs Memphis as he literally went out there and ran on it, jumped on it, and so on.

[Jakay]

The bigger issue is that Kobe played the entire half with that injury, Steve Blake a couple of week's ago was misdiagnosed and played 2 games with an injury that he should have rehabbed on.

The coach and player can only take the medical advice available to them and the staff is quickly becoming one of the less reliable ones since the Blazers.

He went down with 3:25 left in the 3rd. To be fair, it didn't seem like it bothered him that much. A fracture like that takes a lot of input from the patient to diagnose, or an MRI... They eventually went with the MRI when Kobe said it was still bothering him the next day.

I'm guessing Kobe said he was fine and that was that.

I've had a few minor fractures. It is a broken bone, technically, but it's not the same as what most people consider a break. One of them I didn't even know I had a fracture until about a month later, and the other hurt like a mofo, but I still worked with it for two weeks before I went to the hospital and was like "wtf". Second one was in my wrist while I was working on woks on a restaurant line, so it's not like I could avoid using it.

Anyhow, blah blah blah, tough guy plays fourth on fracture, makes no sense to continue playing once problem is discovered. He'll be better for it, like I said, since it will likely give him something to think about (and a relatively minor problem, all said) that isn't his heel. Only thing that worries me is he might never fully trust his left leg again.