D12 Thread: Brushin' his shoulders off (Won't need surgery)

Maluco Beleza wrote:i know nobody is a warrior like kobe but i remember the 2010 season were he twisted his ankle @ Mavs. It was so disgusting, I'd never seen anything like that or that looked that bad and at 1st glance i thought kobe was lost for the season and longer.. but he's goes to the locker room....comes back and hits a clutch shot to win the game. like seriously? but thats kobe...

d12 doesn't have it like that and I don't blame him. nobody is like Kobe.

Kit wrote:I have a feeling with all the pressure for rushing him back and if he hurt it again, he would shut it down and get a surgery.

Kit wrote:I have a feeling with all the pressure for rushing him back and if he hurt it again, he would shut it down and get a surgery.

Weezy wrote:

Kit wrote:I have a feeling with all the pressure for rushing him back and if he hurt it again, he would shut it down and get a surgery.

I don't think it getting hurt again is a matter of if, I think it's a matter of when. That's the whole point of this play through the pain discussion, if he's not going to have surgery and he can't hurt it worse, then he should play. It's going to get hurt again, guys are going to go after it in games, bang on it in the post, swipe down on the ball really hard like Shannon did, he's going to feel pain. Question is will he play through the pain to try and help us to the playoffs or will he not and try to heal or have surgery. If he's not going to call it a season and try and heal it fully there's no point in missing a game here and a game there where we need him because it will just get hurt again, might as well play now.

kobebryant: On our way to the Garden. Ready to do that work. If D12 is healthy he will play if he's not he won't. Simple math #countonmediahype

KB24 wrote:This seems like its turning into a big feud between Howard and Kobe.

it was stupid to come out and tell the public Dwight needs to play. He should have told Dwight that behind closed doors. If Kobe is talking about balls, then he should stop sending messages through the media and do it behind closed doors. He might be able to do that with other people that know him for a long time but some people just don't like that type of attitude and media pressure.

WojYahooNBA: After missing two games with sore shoulder, Lakers center Dwight Howard plans to play against Boston tonight, league sources tell Y! Sports.

"I want to play," Howard said after participating in shootaround in advance of the Los Angeles Lakers games against the Boston Celtics on Thursday. "I mean, why wouldn't I want to play? But, at the same time, this is my career, this is my future, this is my life. I can't leave that up to anybody else because nobody else is going to take care of me. So, if people are pissed off that I don't play or if I do play, whatever it may be, so what? This is my career. If I go down, then what? Everybody's life is going to go on. I don't want to have another summer where I'm rehabbing and trying to get healthy again. I want to come back and have another great year. That's what I want to do."

Weezy wrote:I think people have become too sensitive these days. You see all the tough former players/old school players, old media guys that have been around since the days of tough NBA men all saying Kobe as a leader is allowed to tell Dwight if he can play he needs to play. You only see the younger people saying "that's not cool man, what about Dwight's feelings". Kobe knows what it takes to win, sacrifice, he needed finger surgery, didn't get it, he needed wrist surgery, didn't get it. He hurt his shoulder one season pretty bad, kept playing. he sprained his ankle in the Finals vs Indiana really bad, played the rest of the series. So he said what he said from experience, doesn't mean anyone has to like it, and I still don't think he was wrong.

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote:

kobebryant: On our way to the Garden. Ready to do that work. If D12 is healthy he will play if he's not he won't. Simple math #countonmediahype