Rip's ankle injury

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Originally Posted by GrantBell

Rip damaged 3 tendons in his ankle. It was a pretty bad sprain. He did practice and work with Kander. What he didn't do is have one final practice afterd deciding he was "ready." It was kind of spontaneous. I fail to see hwo you can accuse Rip of sitting out and Dumars condoning it or allowing it.

You're reaching big time.

Try reading. Those scenarios were brought to you by the people arguing that Rip wasn't milking the injury. THEY spit-balled that Dumars was giving him time off or that the coaches wanted him out of the rotation to play the young guys or that Rip needed a vacation at the beginning of the season because he's so poorly conditioned.

That's the best they could come up with to explain how Rip's ankle is magically healed after a power nap.

I never claimed Rip wasn't ever injured. Just that he clearly wasn't all that motivated to get back on the floor.

It's possible that GrantBell was responding to the drivel I spewed regarding my theory that the team has been less than truthful about the severity of their "star" players injuries in hopes of letting their bodies rest after years of mis and over-use by the hands of foolish basketball coaches like flip the stuttering retard saunders and curry but also to see what they have in the young guys.

Dumars has been very critical of the league's IR policies in the past, I can definitely see him using these to his advantage (if resting players is deemed advantageous) considering it's the team and the team only that has a say on both the severity of injuries but also when a player is healthy enough to return (team meaning players, coaches and management). The league does not provide a checks and balances when it comes to this.

It seems unlikely that they intentionally rested Rip in the midst of a 7 game losing streak.

Obviously the guy got hurt. Obviously he did the rehab to come back. Maybe he was healthy enough 4 games ago? Maybe 5 games ago?

I don't really care. The only thing I wonder is what could possibily be gained by bringing Rip back at the first available moment...

Nothing - it's fucking December. Let the guy chill out, shoot jumpers, spend time with the wife and kids and maybe after the holidays bring him back