Now I'm just like Manu Ginobili!

Hey, I feel you. I did the same thing about 8 or 9 years ago. I even got the “you would have been better off breaking it”. I have a picture of it somewhere that I will try to find and scan in. It was gruesome. I haven’t played since. It still feels lousy.

I’ll see what I can do about the Jim-Jim’s telethon.

had the same thing happen to me in december. was cutting through a yard at night while i was running and stepped in a hole. god damn it hurt, walked it off a bit and finished my run, but my ankle swelled to twice its size. even today it’s still swollen and the ligament hasn’t healed yet (still hurts pretty bad when i push my ankle laterally, so i have to be really weary about things that may twist my ankle).

he’s a tough bastard, and i hope he does recover from this, cause i’m not even healed up yet after 7+ months. then again, i finally decided to see what was wrong with my ankle like 3 days ago. i know Gino is getting top notch treatment.

You think badass?! Try playing on that ankle in the Olympics as your team’s star in three months and torching everyone in the world. THAT’S even badassier!! I suddenly take back my helicopter dream as well. Even a gimpy Manu is worth more than a helicopter.

Sorry about your ankle, good luck with the rehab.

What the hell is Hamer doing “cutting through yards at night” anyway? I now suddenly have a name to put with CMoney’s Hitchiker.

I’ve had a partially torn patella tendon (while in high school) and a torn ACL (4 years ago) and my two ankle injuries are by far more troublesome as I get older. Never broken, always severe sprains with ligament damage. Once, I even tore a tendon and have a bone chip floating around in there. I still play hoops 3 days / week, but it’s starting to become more and more painful and I just can’t move like I used to.

Knees, even ACL injuries, heal. Ankles hurt forever.

Trust me, it definately would not be better to break an ankle! I broke my right ankle in the Army coming down on a night jump. Twisted it damn near all the way around. The amount of arthritis I have 18 years later is astounding, and hurts every step I take. Thank goodness yours and Manu’s injury were just ligaments, those will heal or can be repaired! They do suck, tho. I will keep a good thought out there for you tomasito, get well soon.

had a few beers (never a good idea when doing something that requires hand eye coordination) and everybody wanted to play volleyball. They needed two more players so my girlfriend volunteered us (yippee). Anyway, there were uneven dips in the yard that concerned me but I watched out for them. The first couple of sets were fine, we were even setting each other up for spikes, on both sides. I by no meams am any sort of volleyball enthusiast but I’d played before in jr. high gym class so I had the basics of it down. The opposing team started spiking on us pretty regularly so my brother and I took it upon ourselves to be our teams designated blockers. We were doing a pretty good job, at first, but as the game wore on and the competitive juices started to flow we started ballhawking (I know, volleyball, I’ve got to be kidding right) and getting in each others way. Alas, we both went up at the same time for the same block and bumped into each other sideways. My brother is older than me and a little heavier. Where as he pretty much stayed vertical all the way thru his landing, I tilted slightly and came down, right foot first, in one of the dips I had been “watching out for” and POP, POP…..that was the sound I heard (I actually heard it!) as I crumbled to ground, wraithing in pain. Let me tell you, I’ve had a number of injuries over the years, from common sports injuries (ACL sprains, broken bones, MANY jammed fingers) to car wrecks (head, neck, back type stuff) to freak accidents (car door slamming on my finger, hot oil from the frying pan splashing on me) and I must say…...nothing else has ever come close. Any desription I could give wouldn’t do the pain any justice. Keep in mind I once had a truck door slam closed on my forefinger. I winced, had the person open the door, lifted my hand above my heart (to slow the bleeding) walked to my apartment building, blood running down my forearm from my shattered fingernail, rinsed it in the kitchen sink (it was closest to my front door and didn’t want blood dripping onto the carpet) wrapped it up, took some advil and watched UT take out Iowa State. For my ankle injury, I had my girlfriend take my ass to the emergency room (Easter Sunday, no doctors office available). I got the same “it would have been better if you had broken it” job. I was on crutches, then a soft boot for about 2 months. This was over ten years ago and to this day I still tweak it when playing ball, sometimes even when just walking. For Manu to perform, at the NBA level no less, makes him nothing short of super human. The dude is all heart and I have nothing but love and respect for him.