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This is now getting officially ridiculous. Does the NBA keep stats for team injuries? We should be the proud owners of a leading stat for this shit by now.
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Like the spinal tap drummer curse...
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I don't really follow basketball all that closely, but is it normal for everybody on a given team to be made out of glass? My point of reference is hockey, and it just doesn't seem like you see this sort of thing all that much in hockey...
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Only four more knee surgeries and we get a free Party Sub, right?
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What did we do to deserve this?
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just.... fuck.

NEW TEAM RULE: NO PIVOTING, BENDING, RUNNING OR JUMPING.

SERIOUS THIS TIME.
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It hurts my knee even reading this.
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I don't like this.

I sad...so sad...
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Ezra this knee curse narrative is becoming lazy reporting. These athletes have a highly regimented life, someone is in charge of their training and stretching. Who? What is their background? Were there many knee injuries at their previous jobs?

Other lines of inquiry include talking to ex-Blazers about the Memorial Coliseum court vs. others; seeing what kind of shoes these knee-injured Blazers were wearing; and looking at other knee-injury plagued teams and seeing if you can identify common themes.

Things happen for reasons! Don't you want to be the hero who solves the mystery of God's Curse?
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There are only so many Blazer players to get hurt. At some point the curse will have to filter down to the rest of the Blazer family. Will Blaze just spontaneously combust? Will the dance team get Crohn's disease? Will Ezra get leaky nipples?
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portland: where knees go to retire
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WTF is wrong with the Rose Garden/practice floor?
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Rose Garden was build on top of an ancient indian burial ground. I thought everyone knew that by now.
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@sexmachinealpha Lazy reporting is what I do best.

Honestly, I am not of the opinion that this is the fault of the training staff. For a large portion of his career, Camby was considered damaged goods, a player who gets injured and injured often. Previous to the 2006-07 season, Camby's legacy was that of an injury-prone center who was only healthy for 35% of the games between 2001-2003. All the stretching in the world wasn't going to help what happened to him on Monday night.

As for the court, of ALL the Blazers' knee injuries, only two have actually occurred on the Rose Garden hardwood. Camby's slight tear from Monday, and the second Oden disaster (12/05/09). All the other injuries have occurred elsewhere. Joel Przybilla hurt his knee on the floor in Dallas, and then again in the shower. These are random acts, not something you can attribute to the floor at the Rose Garden.

Then again, maybe the team should deflate that jumpy castle they have outside the locker room. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of fun, but that thing is dangerous.

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Somewhere in a deep, dank pit, John Canzano is stirring up a foul brew, cackling as he begins to type another blog post.
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I noticed that during the pre-game warm-ups on Tuesday, the Timberwolves were doing all kinds of fancy spinning dunks, while on the other side of the court three Blazers were sprawled out on the court with dudes stretching their legs/knees. :(

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@ROM That's natural. Most teams have trainers doing on-court stretches with players during the layup (or "spinning dunk") lines. The Blazers don't have a lot of flair dunking players, so their warm-ups are pretty subdued.

But back when Josh McRoberts was here, dude was a superstar of the pre-game. Then he'd sit on the bench for all 48 minutes of the game.
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"Most teams have trainers doing on-court stretches with players during the layup (or "spinning dunk") lines. The Blazers don't have a lot of flair dunking players, so their warm-ups are pretty subdued. "

link starting to develop. Go with this.
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we need more sick dunks
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Thanks for the update Ezra sorry for being a dick just I felt powerless and wanted to have some ghost to blame.

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