I may just be noticing this because I am following the sport a little more closely than usual, but aren't there a lot more injuries taking place in NBA basketball in the last few days? Chicago's star guard Derrick Rose is out with a season-ending injury, and he'll probably miss out on playing in the 2012 Olympics. His teammate Joakim Noah suffered an ankle sprain, with his absence most likely a major contributing factor to his teams last two losses to Philadelphia in the playoffs. With the New York Knicks, Imam Shumpert suffered a knee injury and Amar'e Stoudemire just returned to action still tending to his own hand injury. And Baron Davis was put on a stretcher with what at this writing looked like a horrendous knee injury during today's game. Orlando's Dwight Howard was already out for the season due to his own injury...
It is beginning to look as if the winners in this year's playoffs will be the teams who survived injury the best, avoiding it completely being the preferred option. Well, the Knicks were pretty much out of it anyway: even though they won their game with Miami today, they're still behind in the series 3-1. But Chicago and Orlando are in serious trouble, each team unexpectedly on the verge of playoff elimination with their own 3-1 deficits. It's sad about Rose's injury, but he seems to be one of those players prone to them, having now missed stretches of games this year due to four different injuries.
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