Posts for category ‘curse’

The friendly bloggers (and their fans) at the Cleveland sports-based Waiting For Next Year have taken upon the task of creating a Mark Price-themed t-shirt (h/t Sporting News).

Price, the current Atlanta Hawks shooting coach, may still be right for Cleveland Cavaliers fans, but that’s far from the case for Wizards/Bullets fans.

A reminder of how the Cavs fleeced former Bullets GM, John Nash (from this May ’08 post):

photo from flickr/OctopusHat

Well, the first preseason game is in the books…..read the Wizards-Mavericks preseason game blog on Bullets Forever if you’d like. Let’s just say that it didn’t start ‘off with a bang.’ Aside from the Wizards looking bad as a team, Antawn Jamison went down at the 7:42 mark in the 1st with a knee that was diagnosed as sprained, then later strained (patella tendon).

On top of that, the game-time report from Wizards Insider was that Brendan Haywood, originally thought to be out at least a week with a sprained right wrist, is seeking a second opinion from a hand specialist in New York. The latest diagnosis points to surgery, putting BTH out of commission for 4-6 months.

While reports indicate that Jamison’s injury was worse than it looked and is not serious (the disclaimer being that he still needs to get an MRI), reports on Haywood relate that the visit to the specialist is only to confirm the fact that he’s already planning to go forward with the procedure, possibly keeping him out for the entire 2008-2009 season (with 09-10 being a contract year).

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