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Tuesday, November 01, 2005At one time, and for a long time, the injury list was just that, a separate roster for players recovering from injury. But as teams started carrying more than the required 12 players and continued to draft younger players with the intention of developing them, the injury list became the unofficial back burner. .....Players used to spend months on the list with ``patella tendinitis'' or ``thigh contusions,'' not because they were in pain but because they were in vain. Some players got a standard sprain or strain, others were labeled with some sort of inflammation, mostly of the ego. ``I never knew what they said I had until I read it in the paper,'' said Cavaliers guard Luke Jackson, who was shuffled on and off the injury list with alleged injuries last season when he was a rookie. ``People who didn't know what was going on would come up to me and ask me about my knee or say, `Oh, looks like that ankle's getting better.' I mean people thought I was injury-prone.'' ...It wasn't just a game. The team had to make sure the listed injuries didn't somehow interfere with the insurance the club carried on the player's contract. They had to steer clear of past problem areas while still trying to come up with some sort of viable injury they could report with a semi-straight face. Evidently they've changed the rules so teams no longer have to fake injuries to bench a player. posted by Sydney on 11/01/2005 06:29:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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