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nicktonyg22
10-03-2010, 04:40 PM
Really unlucky, bad news. Carlos Boozer broke his hand and it will require surgery. Will be out 8 weeks.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nba/news/story?id=5644724

slower
10-03-2010, 04:41 PM
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/basketball/nba/10/03/bulls.boozer.ap/index.html?eref=sihp

theAlaskanBear
10-03-2010, 05:25 PM
Well, that [expletive deleted] sucks. :( Hope it heals quickly!

Here is some more information.


Boozer suffered the injury on Saturday during the Bulls' day off. According to team sources, Boozer tripped over a bag in his house and fell.

Wasn't it Huggins who tripped over a bag in Vegas? ;)

jimsumner
10-03-2010, 06:29 PM
Well, that [expletive deleted] sucks. :( Hope it heals quickly!

Here is some more information.



Wasn't it Huggins who tripped over a bag in Vegas? ;)

"If it wasn't for bad luck, wouldn't have no luck at all."

Every blues singer ever.

JBDuke
10-03-2010, 07:29 PM
Well, Boozer has returned quickly from broken bones before. Let's hope it happens in this case, too.

devildeac
10-03-2010, 07:51 PM
It's over.;)

(Maybe Casey, Reggie and Matt can help.)

DevilHorns
10-03-2010, 07:58 PM
Well, Boozer has returned quickly from broken bones before. Let's hope it happens in this case, too.

Haha, well said. Get well soon Carlos! :cool:

Udaman
10-03-2010, 08:10 PM
My favorite part is the excuse...tripped over a bag. Yeah -right. We'll never really know what it was he was doing (hitting a wall in anger, playing his Wii and smacking it into something, holding his hand out the window of his car while he drove)....but I can guarantee you it wasn't tripping over a bag.

Udaman
10-03-2010, 08:11 PM
All that said, I hope he recovers quickly. Always liked Boozer, and Chicago should be great with him.

theAlaskanBear
10-03-2010, 09:05 PM
My favorite part is the excuse...tripped over a bag. Yeah -right. We'll never really know what it was he was doing (hitting a wall in anger, playing his Wii and smacking it into something, holding his hand out the window of his car while he drove)....but I can guarantee you it wasn't tripping over a bag.

I trip over everything: steps, sidewalks, tables, my own feet, shoes, clothes, door frames, bathmats...you never know.

georg004
10-04-2010, 12:33 AM
My favorite part is the excuse...tripped over a bag. Yeah -right. We'll never really know what it was he was doing (hitting a wall in anger, playing his Wii and smacking it into something, holding his hand out the window of his car while he drove)....but I can guarantee you it wasn't tripping over a bag.

I love Carlos Boozer, both as a Duke player and as a stellar NBA pro. But the story does raise eyebrows.

A trip-and-fall leads to a reflex - you stretch out both forearms reflexively, catching yourself with your hands. The force is transmitted to the small bones of the wrist, not the metacarpals. The usual result is fractured scaphoid, the injury that Mason Plumlee suffered last year.

A fractured metacarpal does not fit with this scenario. When you fracture a metacarpal, your wrists are generally straight and stiff. Moreover, your fingers must have been flexed into a fist, otherwise they would have taken the force and fractured.

A fractured 5th metacarpal is not the classic boxer's fracture; that's usually the second or third. But it does not fit at all with a trip-and-fall on an outstretched hand.

That's JMHO, and I'm more than happy to be corrected by my ortho surgeon friends out there.

billy
10-04-2010, 09:58 AM
Moreover, your fingers must have been flexed into a fist, otherwise they would have taken the force and fractured.

Agree with this part - more likely to get a boxer's fracture landing on your fist (I can tell you I've treated these before) or hitting something with a fist.


A fractured 5th metacarpal is not the classic boxer's fracture; that's usually the second or third. But it does not fit at all with a trip-and-fall on an outstretched hand.

Disagree with this part - boxer's fracture is indeed a fracture of the small (5th) finger metacarpal neck.

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00010

Strange to me that he'd be out 8 weeks however, especially if he had surgery to fix it. IIRC he was out less than that in '01 with his metatarsal fracture...

Indoor66
10-04-2010, 10:37 AM
Agree with this part - more likely to get a boxer's fracture landing on your fist (I can tell you I've treated these before) or hitting something with a fist.



Disagree with this part - boxer's fracture is indeed a fracture of the small (5th) finger metacarpal neck.

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00010

Strange to me that he'd be out 8 weeks however, especially if he had surgery to fix it. IIRC he was out less than that in '01 with his metatarsal fracture...

Maybe he is nine years older?

Highlander
10-05-2010, 12:31 PM
My favorite part is the excuse...tripped over a bag. Yeah -right. We'll never really know what it was he was doing (hitting a wall in anger, playing his Wii and smacking it into something, holding his hand out the window of his car while he drove)....but I can guarantee you it wasn't tripping over a bag.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/How-Carlos-Boozer-really-broke-his-right-hand?urn=nba-274281

Here's Boozer's explanation of what happened. Says he tripped over his gym bag trying to answer the doorbell late at night. Sounds plausible to me...

Jderf
10-05-2010, 12:38 PM
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/How-Carlos-Boozer-really-broke-his-right-hand?urn=nba-274281

Here's Boozer's explanation of what happened. Says he tripped over his gym bag trying to answer the doorbell late at night. Sounds plausible to me...

The second-to-last sentence in that article is pure, unfiltered genius.