Celtics Injury List Growing

Doc Rivers told reporters in Waltham where the Celtics were conducting practice that Kevin Garnett (hip flexor) and Mickael Pietrus (knee) are both "doubtful" for Wednesday's game against the Pistons at TD Garden.

You add them to a list that already had Bass (knee) and Jermaine O'Neal (vagina). The Celtics are just a banged up team. To be honest though, I think this could be a good thing for the Celtics. It's going to force Doc to play guys like JaJuan Johnson, because the Celtics are just go thin up front right now, and the Celtics are going to need him to get some experience for later in the year.

Doc has said they may be forced to go small, since the only big men left on healthy on the roster are on Wilcox, Stiemsma, Johnson, and perhaps Jermaine. You might actually see Bradley and Rondo on the court together tonight trying to trap, which could take some pressure off their big men. I am honestly interested to see what they will do tonight, because the NBA season is kind of boring and I would like to see more of these young guys to see if they have a future, but even more than that see if they could add a spark when the Celtics are in the playoffs.

Andrew Bogut Hurt Again

Andrew Bogut is hurt again, this time it's a broken left ankle. Imagine what Andrew Bogut or the Bucks would be if he stopped having all these terrible injuries, let's break down his horrific injury past:

In 2007, Bogut's sophomore season in the league was cut short after spraining his left foot and being put on the injured reserve for the final 15 games.

In 2008, Bogut missed 43 games, including the final 31, with an injured lower back.

In 2009, Bogut missed the end of the 2009-10 season when he dislocated his right elbow,sprained his right wrist and broke his right hand in a hard fall to the floor.

In 2010, the previous injury lingered, holding him to only play in 65 games.

And now this.

I used to make excuses when the Celtics had Delonte West and he would have, what I call, "try hard" injuries. Injuries that happened because you tried hard and something went wrong like a broken bone, etc. The opposite of Jermaine O'Neal or JD Drew injury. But sometimes people are just really fragile, and although Bogut could be a great player when healthy, he just never is.

This sucks for the Bucks because after they made that run a couple years ago, they just haven't been able to get over the hump of mediocrity.

Carl Crawford Got His Wrist Scoped

When Boston Red Sox left fielder Carl Crawford "started increasing his hitting activity … right around New Year's, he experienced soreness in his left wrist," Sox GM Ben Cherington said, according to MLB.com. It wasn't' going away and has been there in the past so Crawford opted for surgery on Tuesday, which may keep him from being with the team on opening day in April. Yahoo

Well, as much as I am concerned and even if he misses the 1st couple of games, I'm not going to freak out about this. If this will help him in the long run, I'm all for it. I of course wish he got this done a little earlier, but whatever, what's done is done. And before everyone freaks out and pretends like they are baseball experts and say, "well wrist injuries are killers", Vernon Wells underwent surgery (performed by the same surgeon) to repair cartilage in his wrist in mid-November after the 2009 season. That was a season in which Wells had gotten on base at a .311 clip and slugged a career-worst .400. Wells played 157 games the following season and saw his slugging percentage jump to .515.

So this could really help Carl out in the long run and make him the .307 batting average with 19 homerun hitter he was in Tampa Bay.

V Mart Out For The Season With Torn ACL

Victor Martinez is out for the season with a torn ACL, taking the DH out for the year.

This sucks for the Tigers and losing an 100 RBI bat always sucks and they will now how to search threw the corpses left in free agency and see if Johnny Damon, Vladimir Guerrero, Hideki Matsui, Magglio Ordonez and Carlos Guillen.

But I want to just give a shout out to the people who are saying, "see it was a good move to let V Mart go", shut up. Injuries to people who leave is such a weird feeling, because it could be a thing where it's a different situation and they may not have been injured here.

Letting VMart go was one of the things I didn't understand that offseason and although he would most likely be a DH now, getting one and a half years of him at catcher would have been a lot better than what we dealt with last year. Also VMart was a good club house guy and seeing what happened last year, he could have only helped during the chicken and beer nonsense.

Alfie Out With Concussion Problems

Sens captain Daniel Alfredsson will be out a minimum of a week after suffering a concussion on a cheap shot elbow to the head at the hands of the Rangers' Wolski on Saturday afternoon. Alfie, who missed the game on Sunday as well, will be re-evaluated in a weeks time, though there is no guarantee he will be back then. What a shame to happen to him of all people and the stunning part is there was no suspension handed out to Wolski after the NHL spent all pre season bombarding us with suspensions.





In case you missed it, here is the hit from multiple angles. I mean I don't know what more Brendan Shannahan and the NHl are looking for. It's pretty black and white to me. A clear cheap shot that deserved suspension.

Ian Mendes tweeted this about the Alfie hit, which wouldn't be all that newsworthy normally other than because it's from Mendes, who for the record is my favorite Sens media guy, but it got a player to respond.........

Former Sen Mike Fisher retorted and I think it says it all about the NHL's consistency. Smarten up and fast.


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