Word out of Orlando tonight is that the Magic are going to apply to the NBA for the disabled player exception for Grant Hill, expecting him to miss the 2003-04 season. However, Hill apparently has no intentions to retire and is not sold on missing the entire season. He just began light rehab from his most recent surgery (March 03) over the past week, however, and there is no chance that he will be ready to play at the start of the season. Here's hoping he makes it back, yet again. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...n19,0,7367767.story?coll=orl-sports-headlines
If he was given a clean bill of health tomorrow, I would still bet money that he would miss most of the '03 '04 season. It's very sad, but I believe he will never play the majority of a season again.
How much does he make and when does his contract expire? Didn't they trade Ben Wallace and 2 other guys for Grant Hill?? And now they need a center.......
hill is what i call a waste of talent! he is such a great player and his freakin injury keeps him sidelined! i feel so sorry for him! his injury just wont stop! i hope he can return and give us ala michael jordan last season kind of return sometime soon!
What exactly is wrong with his ankle? I mean this is the worse ankle injury ins history!!! Did someone botch something when it went down? Where are all those. . THEY SHOULD PLAY THROUGH INJURY PEOPLE NOW? Rocket River
Hill played the playoffs on an injured ankle in his last season with detroit. He, and the Magic, have been paying for that ever since. Ankle injuries are tough. Just think of them this way -- they support everything above them. In other words, two thin ankles support the whole body and its movements.
Ben Wallace and Chucky Atkins for Grant Hill Hill makes the max, meaning he's due for about $13m this season. Opt-out clause after either this year or next, but it's a 7 year deal overall.
I agree with those in the feedback forum that the rolleyes smiley is overused, but I feel the need to use it here: How would you feel if you suddenly were unable to walk or compete at the thing you love, the thing you've been doing your entire life? It's not his fault that the injuries don't get better, and it's admirable that he keeps trying to come back and make things right. If only ALL basketball players tried as hard...
Just wanted to say, this is true, to an extent. But Hill didn't just play on an injured ankle. When he hit the playoffs, he was playing on, essentially, a broken ankle. Having never made it out of Round 1---and hearing too often that he didn't have a killer instinct---and most certainly knowing he wanted to get out of Dodge and go to Orlando (even though he hadn't officially *wink win* talked to the Magic)---Hill played hurt. And got, uh, "hurt-er." Much "hurt-er."
The title of this thread scared the hell outta me!! Thak god you were talking about Grant Hill....I was afraid it was Bobby
The Magic can apply for cap relief two years after a career-ending injury for Hill if Hill would retire. Hill would continue to be paid his contract, but none of it would count against the cap after the 2-year waiting period. If they were to go this way, the Magic would not get the $4.8 million injury exception, but I think they'd still be better off. It seems to me that Hill is killing that organization with his stubborn insistence on coming back which, imo, is obviously not going to succeed.
Well, he's had 3 surgeries on it. Must be something really bad. I'd like to see the doctor's report. It's not a normal ankle injury, that's for sure.
Hill essentially is the reason they got Mcgrady so as bad as the trade turn out to be (Wallace and ? for Hill) they would not have gotten T-Mac woth out him so the moral is look for the positives in every negative but T-Mac and GHill were supposed to be the new Pippen and Jordan.
I believe they can go both routes - get the $4.8m exception this year, and if he cannot play this year or next (in 15+ games), then they can apply for cap relief under the 2 year injury rule, allowing his salary to come off of the books.
