Posted on 03/31/2013 5:42:39 PM PDT by Bratch
Louisville sophomore Kevin Ware was taken from the court on a stretcher after a serious leg injury this afternoon during the NCAA Midwest region basketball final.
It is terrible to see this happen to anyone, let alone an elite athlete in his prime.
There is nothing to do but pray and hope this is not as bad as it looks:
WARNING! Extremely graphic!
Louisville player Kevin Ware breaks his whole leg on bad fall!
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Kevin Ware has a wild backstory. His recruitment to UCF led, in part, to their probation.
The backstory: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/sports/ncaabasketbal/30recruit.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 …
It was horrible..it was Theismann like break..absolutely terrible..Louisville played with a lot of emotion..prayers for Kevin Ware hope he can recover fully..but boy that was brutal to watch
Prayers up for this brave young man.
OMG!
I have never seen anything like that.
His team mates turned away, some looked like they were crying.....after it happened (no video) what did they do?
After sulking over the Gators’ poor performance today, this put things in perspective.
Not to be snarky, but a brave young man is a US soldier going into Afghanistan knowing he has a good chance of being maimed or killed.
This was just a kid playing ball who randomly got hurt on national tv where everybody could watch it live.
Broken in two places with a bone sticking 6 inches out of his leg. He kept telling his team mates to win the game. Win the game. (Saw it down here in Oz - we get the NCAA series)
Terrible video. Looked like an open tib-fib fracture
I’m not going to look because I won’t be able to unlook.
To those who were brave enough to look, how did he fall which caused his leg to break?
Move over Joe Theismann!
Even Coach K was crying..they all were..I didnt see the injury go down but the still images of it just looked horrendous..I remember watching a Clipper game when former Clipper Shaun Livingston’s kneecap popped out, he was screaming in pain and it looked SO bad..unfortunately these kind of injuries do happen
It is snarky.
You do not expect to be injured in a fashion that will change your life for ever playing basketball.
Pray for the young man AND out military who willing accept the risks.
I had completely forgotten the time, more than 40 years ago, when I was playing basketball on an outdoor court, locked my foot in a shallow hole and got spun about nearly 90 degrees by someone going for the ball. The pain was something else again.
Yes, I second that. Better not to say anything and keep such sentiments to oneself. If someone had tried to compare the player directly to a war hero, I would have thought it appropriate, but this is in a different context.
“Twitter prays for Kevin Ware after horrible leg injury”
What god does Twitter pray to?
It wasn't really a fall as such. He made a running leap in the air, and when he came down, his leg just snapped like a twig when his foot hit the floor.
He didn't actually fall - he was just gliding kind of sideways and landed on his right leg. It didn't even look like a hard landing, basketball players stop like that all the time and you wouldn't expect worse than a sprained ankle or knee even if it was a hard jolt. But his whole lower leg just snapped in half and down he went. I wonder if he had some previously undiagnosed condition.
People on twitter are expressing prayers for the young man, and you question the faith of everyone of the posters....how special.
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