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Dwight Howard is about 75 percent healthy and getting ripped for not playing through pain.
Derrick Rose is about 85 percent healthy, has no plans to play soon and nobody has a problem with it.
These are confusing times on The Injured Jock Front. We used to expect them to sacrifice their bodies for the team. Now people are telling Jadeveon Clowney to sit out next year at South Carolina. And he’s not even injured.
What must Willis Reed be thinking?
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Everybody, Chicago Bulls general manager Gar Forman says, wants to know when All-Star point guard Derrick Rose will return. "We would like to know the exact date," Forman says. The return date remains a... more »
Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard had always been a reluctant partnership, two stars long suspecting what turned out to be the indisputable truth: They were destined to be terrible teammates. When Bryant and Howard hung up on a... more »
After bearing smiles almost all season, Dwight Howard mostly maintains a stoic persona. So what's bothering Howard? Everything. He feels hurt because of an aggravated labrum in his right shoulder has left him vulnerable to... more »
Vin Baker is resting an elbow on a wooden pulpit, his 6-11 body wrapped in a snappy, plaid suit that seems to stretch on forever. He takes a deep breath and exhales, his long face looking down for a moment. The audience... more »
With the Los Angeles Lakers now, we’re all rubberneckers at the scene of a grisly, 12-car pileup. We’re repulsed, but we can’t look away. They deserve for America to look away. Looking at them strictly from the bottom... more »
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