Basketball Player Compound Fracture

Stress fractures ended the seasons of players like brook lopez javale mcgee jrue holiday and quincy pondexter among many.

Basketball player compound fracture. Stress fractures have been quite prominent in the nba in the last year. He scored 11 points on 5 of 7 shooting in 25 minutes during louisville s. He is a former player for the university of louisville ware received widespread media attention when he suffered an open fracture of the tibia in his right leg during an elite eight game against the duke blue devils on march 31 2013. Portland center jusuf nurkic was carted off and later hospitalized after going down with compound fractures to the tibia and fibula of his lower left leg in the second overtime of a win over brooklyn.

Jusuf nurkic injury update. Kevin douglas ware jr. Trainers check on louisville guard kevin ware after his compound leg fracture during the midwest regional final sunday against duke in the ncaa college basketball tournament. Per the blazers nurkic sustained compound fractures to his left tibia and fibula the injury was described as season ending and they said there is no current timetable for his return.

April 1 2013 louisville basketball player kevin ware s horrific leg fracture was a freak accident that may have been exacerbated by previously undetected stress fractures. Veteran running back lesean mccoy suffered a compound ankle fracture in high school. Blazers star suffers compound leg fractures in double ot win over nets out indefinitely the blazers jusuf nurkic suffered a gruesome left leg injury on a common. Players coaches react to kevin ware s gruesome injury ware has seen his role increase in the ncaa tournament.