NBA Game Action : 2/5/2022

vroom vroom

 

When the most interesting game as a Rockets fan is the Thunder and Kings LOL. Do you root for the Thunder knowing it may make the Kings and Thunder pass you up in the draft? Or the Kings hoping only the Thunder compete with you for draft position? Someone tell that Kings governor he needs to go for the play-in!

 

Jokic really ended that man’s career.



Heat forward Markieff Morris, who has been sidelined since Nuggets center Nikola Jokic shoved him to the floor three months ago, wants to play but the team still has not cleared him to do so, multiple sources told The Miami Herald this week.

The Heat’s position has left in question when or if the veteran power forward will return to play this season.

Morris’ injury -- sustained in that Nov. 8 game in Denver -- was termed “whiplash” by the Heat. The Heat is now listing him as out because of a “return to competitive reconditioning.” But the team has declined to discuss his status, what he has been cleared to do physically or whether he will play again this season.

On Jan. 6, Morris tweeted “I said what I said! Heat nation I’ll see y’all soon!!”

But he hasn’t tweeted anything about a possible return since. And Saturday’s game in Charlotte will be the 44th consecutive game he will miss.

The Heat’s specific medical concern with Morris isn’t clear, but the sources said it was significant enough to make the Heat uneasy about clearing him to play, at least to this point, and significant enough to leave the team concerned about liability issues.

It’s important to note that Morris’ neck injury wasn’t his first. In January 2019, while playing for the Washington Wizards, Morris was ruled out for six weeks following a bout of neck and upper back stiffness that led to him being diagnosed with transient cervical neurapraxia.

According to sportsmedtoday.com, servical cord neurapraxia (CCN), “is a rare but dangerous cervical spine (neck) injury. TQ is usually caused by cervical spinal cord trauma, which can occur after a neck hyperextension or hyperflexion injury with possible axial loading (pressure applied to the top of the head). The incidence is approximately 0.2-2 per 100,000 athletes. That is common sports-related injury.”

An associate said Morris very much wants to be playing now. His representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday.

 

You guys remember Erick Dampier. Junior over here looking like Reggie from Bad Boys 2

 

Who ranks 6th graders?

 

No idea what I just saw.

 

truly deserves its own thread

 

I think the Knicks/Lakers game will be interesting. Or rather, maybe not the game itself, but all the drama that will arise when two teams in the biggest markets get commentated on how poorly they are doing. Ought to stir up every Laker/Knicks hypothetical trade conceivable. And I will get to laugh at most of them.

Oh, and Go Thunder!

 

Theoretically, I like that lineup for the Lakers. Davis and LeBron are at their best positions, it has a defender/glue guy in Johnson, and a shooter in Monk. The problem is that it looks like Westbrook would still play.

 

So do the Knicks apparently

 

For real.

 

he's off that good Cali papanya

 

****ing knicks can't hold a ****ing lead smh

 

I'm starting to think the Lakers are in trouble this season.