[外電] Hits keep coming for the Hornets
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Hits keep coming for the Hornets
Rash of injuries takes a big toll on New Orleans
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
By Jimmy Smith
Staff writer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- One-quarter of the way through the NBA
schedule, injuries have cost 10 Hornets players the
equivalent of nearly one full season.
On Tuesday, the injury list swelled even more.
Starting point guard Alex Garcia, who has been playing in
place of injured point guard Baron Davis, discovered he has
a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will
miss the remainder of the season.
Garcia, who has recently shared starting duties with Junior
Harrington, sustained the injury in Sunday's 88-69 loss at
Washington, leaving the game with 8:29 remaining in the
third quarter. An MRI done Monday afternoon revealed the
damage.
"If I was a doctor," Hornets general manager Allan Bristow
said Tuesday, "I'd be making a lot of money right now. You
just never know about injuries, but we seem to be getting a
rash of them.
"I can't remember a time (in a playing and front-office career
that spans three decades) when this has happened. . . . And it
just seems to be something else every week."
Since Davis went down with an inflamed disc in his lower back
Nov. 12 in the season's second week, the Hornets have lost a
player to injury each of the succeeding weeks.
Garcia first went down Nov. 17 with a strained groin, followed
by Jamaal Magloire on Nov. 26 with a fractured ring finger. On
Dec. 4, David West sprained his knee. Last Wednesday, the
Hornets lost Lee Nailon with a groin strain and Matt Freije
with a cracked tailbone, though he hasn't missed a game.
"We're getting a little nervous around Thursday and Friday
every week," Hornets coach Byron Scott said Tuesday, laughing.
"I might give them Thursday off."
Heading into Tuesday night's game against the Bobcats, 10
Hornets players had missed a total of 80 games. The NBA plays
82 games in the regular season.
"I don't know what the record is for games lost in a season,"
Scott said, "but I'm sure we're going to break it."
New Orleans has a league-high five players on its injured list,
though league rules allow a maximum of only three at one time.
The Hornets have twice appealed to the NBA for injury-list
exemptions to allow Magloire and West to be placed on the list
and have added front-court players Corsley Edwards and Lonny
Baxter from the Continental Basketball Association to take
their roster spots.
A league spokesman said Tuesday that no records are kept of
the number of injury list exemptions teams have requested.
Bristow said it's unlikely he'd seek another exemption for
Garcia because one of the five players on the current injured
list might be ready to be activated by Saturday.
(會是誰呢 ?___?)
The Hornets could then place Garcia on the list after he misses
the requisite three games.
If the Hornets sought an exemption for Garcia, those currently
on the injured list would be required to sit out at least two
more weeks.
"I said last week it couldn't get any worse," Bristow said, "
but I guess it can. We've got time to formulate some strategy.
I just feel bad for the players who are hurt, like Alex, who
was getting a chance to start, and David West, who was getting
an opportunity to play when he went down."
Garcia missed last season when he was with the San Antonio Spurs
with a broken ankle he sustained in an exhibition game against
the Hornets.
"I am very frustrated," Garcia said Tuesday. "I was playing
good. . . . The last two seasons I am hurt. I don't know what
to say."
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