HndsmCelt said:Im not sure how a broken jaw translates into a month off court unless some one WANTS him off court and it's an excuse.
SacBee said:Adbur-Rahim out with broken jaw
By Sam Amick -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 5:54 pm PST Tuesday, December 27, 2005
LOS ANGELES - Kings power forward Shareef Abdur-Rahim suffered a broken jaw against the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night, X-rays revealed Tuesday.
There is no known timetable for Abdur-Rahim's absence. From Sacramento, Abdur-Rahim said he and trainer Pete Youngman will assess the situation Wednesday morning to decide on further measures.
Abdur-Rahim was hit in the jaw by Trail Blazers forward Zach Randolph but continued to play in the game. Abdur-Rahim said the X-ray was merely a precautionary measure, and he was surprised when the news came that his jaw was broken. He flew with the team to Los Angeles late Monday night and returned the next morning.
Abdur-Rahim was signed as a free agent this past off-season and was hoped to have given the team a star at power forward. He was averaging 16.5 points a game and 6.4 rebounds in 27 games.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/sports/basketball/kings/story/14019502p-14852045c.html
bibbinator said:SAR is about as level headed as they come. It says something if we was pissed enough to get a technical.
Bricklayer said:Uh, no. Actually that is not the SAR we have seen this year at all.
The SAR we have seen is really rivalling Brad for best bitter beer face, complains after nearly every call, has picked up technicals and is always after the refs. I was trying to recall whether it has always been like that, or he just caught Kingitis. But in any case, his demeanor on the court vis a vis the refs leaves a lot to be desired, and picking up a technical is no surprose at all for him this season.
Bricklayer said:One thing I will say is that the fact he played on and was still surprised it was that serious later that night tells me that maybe, just maybe, this was a relatively mild break.
I played the rest of the half when I broke mine, but I was also spitting up a ton of blood and looked like a chipmunk. Went off to my next two classes afterward with an icebag attached to my jaw but had to keep on going to the bathroom to spit up blood and finally decided to go to the hospital when I noticed that if I shoved on the opposite side of my lower jaw I could shift the broken side out of alignment.
Find it hard to believe that a professional athlete surrounded by professional trainers could go through all of that and have it go unnoticed until the middle of the night. So maybe, just maybe, its a hairline fracture or some such rather than a complete break and we can catch a little "break" ourselves here and get him back early.
My point was not that SAR was a wuss for not playing with a broken jaw (had one my self) it was that what ever hapend last night I would doubt it is a true break since he palyed the game out and did not seem any worse for wear. I find it hard to belive this is a serious break that would take 6 weeks to heal, but I know just enough about medicine to teach rhetoric for a living.Bricklayer said:??
I've had a broken jaw. I heal fast and insisted on having the wires removed early because I had an oral argument competition coming up, and it still took a month (+ was not at 100% strength).
You cannot really play a contact sport with a broken jaw because there is no way to shield your whole face other than wearing a helmet and one blow to EITHER side of the face will rebreak it. Also, you have to be fitted with special braces top and bottom so that they have something to wrap the wire around when they wrap your jaw shut, and any blow to the face or cheeks would certainly slice up the inside of your mouth too.
4 weeks minimum really.