[Injury] Wemby falls and takes a hard hit to the face before heading to the locker room
Seeing him fall was like pretty nuts from a physics perspective. His length caused that impact to be even worse than it probably would be. I hope he’s okay that looked really rough.
Many years, I went out drinking with a group of guys. One of the guys in our group was 7 ft tall. He got so drunk. We were outside walking and he was tipsy AF, lost his balance and came crashing into the ground like a fucking tree. The phrase “the bigger you are the harder you fall” is no joke. I’ve never seen a dude hit the ground that hard from just falling.
The inverse of this is watching toddlers fall over. My kids would run around and then trip and slam into the ground, bounce up like it was nothing and keep running. I would have been in so much pain if I hit the ground like them. Being short and light (and young) makes falling over an annoyance rather than a devastating event.
My toddler tripped and fell hard on his knees, and got up and kept going. My legs would have fucking exploded.
Their bones are all rubber at that point, which helps
Their tendons and ligaments are also pretty much factory new at that point, without 30 years of wear and tear on them.
Fun fact: Toddler knees are mostly cartilage until they’re older.
Found out recently that their fingers are pretty much the same when one of mine had a door slammed on their hand. Freaked me out so bad to see their fingers bent in every which way and rushed them to the Emergency Room. The doctor looked and said nothing to worry about, it’s all cartilage in their hand right now. I was so embarrassed because the fingers were back to normal when I looked as he was talking to me.
When I was a kid I had a cars trunk closed on my fingers. It latched closed everything. I was so scared in that moment and when my grandma got the trunk opened I was so surprised to find my fingers were only bruised. Flash forward to when my bones were fully formed and I ended up breaking my fingers on a pretty innocuous slide to base in a baseball game. Being a kid gives you the power of indestructibility with the trade off of zero pain tolerance lol.
I had a trampoline growing up, used to bounce on my knees and pop back up. I remember realizing that I could do that without a trampoline on solid ground, just jump, land directly on my knees, and pop right back up!
Dumb story, but just funny to think about how many pieces my knees would be in if I did that today
The older I get, the more I feel a shock when watching someone else fall. An actual jolt rushes through my upper body into my arms like I’m trying to brace myself from falling. Funny enough I have a toddler and a newborn. Much more falling to go before I’m out of the woods.
my son was 90% rubber as a toddler. some of the spills he took would kill me. now he’s 15yo 6’4 basketball player and still takes brutal falls from scary heights. luckily i think he’s still bout 63% rubber.
I had girlfriends and my wife comment that it looks like I would fall in slow motion and ”like a tree” (I’m only 6’4”).
Whoa congrats on having multiple GFs AND a wife dude. Livin’ the dream ✌🏽
Didn’t know Mike vrabel was a nephew
I’m 6’ 5” and sometimes the landscapers try to get me (I’m actually 5’ 9” lmao)
I am 6’ 2”, 235ish, fell down 9 stairs all at once, 5 brain surgeries later, here I am. The bigger you are the harder you fall is gospel.
Jeeeeeez man hope you’re doing okay
Thank you, I am doing well. No seizures for 3ish years now. Weened off all pharma.
Well yeah it’s like falling from the second floor at that size
What took the training staff so long? Bad look
I don’t think they’re allowed to until time is called.
Right? I’m in a different state and I could have gotten there sooner.
Tbh I think that’s why it looks like he’s flopping cause he tries to coordinate his falls to minimize impact.
people do forget because he’s so quick, that he has the limbs like a girafee. he also had the ball in his hands until the end which is why he couldnt’ get his hands to brace
I do not get why it always takes NBA trainers so long to get out on the court compared to other sports. He could have easily got up and fell again because they took so long
They arent allowed until actual time is called by the refs. Pretty dumb rule tbh, seems like something they just havent bothered fixing
Can someone do the math in like pounds of force or some shit for falling from Wembey’s height compared to like 6 ft
This is exactly what I’m thinking about his body is like a lever
yeah one sec
edit: ok i’m stoned and tired so can’t remember this shit well but so say he has a 5 kg head, bbref lists him at 2.24 m tall
all its gravitational potential energy will be converted to kinetic by the time it hits the ground so
U = mgh
kinetic energy at impact K is mv^2 / 2
mv^2 / 2 = mgh
so velocity at impact is (2gh)^(1⁄2) = ((2)(9.8 m/s^2 ) (2.24 m))^(1⁄2) = 6.62 m/s
so K = (5 kg)(6.62 m/s)^2 / 2 = 109 J or 80 ft-lbs of force
according to wikipedia that’s around the energy of a baseball traveling 90 mph
if he was 6 ft tall:
v = ((2)(9.8 m/s^2 ) (1.83 m))^(1⁄2) = 5.98 m/s
K = (5 kg)(5.98 m/s)^2 / 2 = 90 J or 66 ft-lbs
(I tried going the like t = Ia route but kept getting mgh anyway. if a real physics person comes along and fucks me up then good for everyone)
Dude fell 3 stories.
Lot of leverage unloaded on his jaw
Wemby got knocked the fuck out by the court
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That was such a brutal fall
He did didn’t he
He has a long way to fall
That was a serious hit on the chin, he definitely looked dazed on the replay
And props to wemby for taking himself out of the game
Out for the game, damn
head/face injures aren’t anything to be fucking around and finding out with
Plus if he’s concussed he wouldn’t be much help on court anyways and seeing multiple baskets
He should just be like LeBron and shoot at the middle one.
You might as well just try dunking to see which one is the real one.
I also bet the constant chanting and music doesn’t feel very good on the headache.
Could even be a broken jaw which would be god damn awful…..never drank a fucking smoothie since…..
Isn’t the Coach’s job to do that?
For sure, but wemby didnt wait for him to make the decision. It’s impressive he had the wherewithal in that situation.
It’s impressive that he didn’t go back on the court after a concussion? He couldn’t even stand up when he tried to get up the first time.
Absolutely. He’s a competitive dude who’s dazed and still knows to take himself out. Many can’t do that.
Welcome to the cult of Wemby, very few players would get comments like this on this subreddit. He is the new golden boy and it’s well beyond obnoxious already. lol
FWIW he waited like a minute.
Hoping nothing is broken
Dude was knocked out, hope he bounces back okay this could really change the series
Concussions are no joke
Unless you are Puka.
nowhere is safe lol
for Jewish women’s shoulders
Or Skattebo
Then they aren’t real
NBA said he’s in concussion protocol. If its actually ruled a concussion, its 1 - 2 days rest then they begin tests to return. It’d likely be at least a week.
There is also a chance he does not get diagnosed with a concussion and avoids the entire slow process to return.
There’s like no chance he doesn’t get diagnosed with a concussion, right?
Hit his chin on the court, seemed to go limp, and then was clearly unsteady as he tried to stand up.
That’s good they have protocol, hopefully they adhere to it for his sake.
In the AFL you are ruled out for a minimum of 12 days if you’re assessed with a concussion.
Even the NFL is iffy sometimes on being back in 7 days and they don’t give a shit about any player that isn’t a QB.
Even in the NFL you have to miss at least one game (after the one you got knocked out of), many players miss 2-3 games especially for repeat concussions.
But in the NBA it is just 48 hours. He’ll be back for game 3 unless he can’t pass the return to play protocol (as verified by team doctors) or he has a broken jaw.
edit - just kidding apparently the NFL has no fixed timeline, just medical exams. I can’t think of a case where a player didn’t miss at least 1 game so I assumed it was a requirement. If the NBA’s return to play protocol is similar medically to the NFL’s then he might miss a week or so, but from a cursory search the NFL’s sounds more rigorous.
There’s no way he plays in the next game. He was out cold.
you don’t even need to get knocked out to get a concussion either, he is going to feel like shit for a few days but he should bounce back
That’s not what “out cold” means
He was unconscious for a few seconds. So yes that’s exactly what out cold means
Holy crap. He face planted… i hate that wemby hates us but i hope he’s okay…
He’ll be fine for the next series, if SA can’t win the first round without him then they’re not real contenders anyways.
They lost a top 3 MVP candidate. Losing this series without him does not mean they were never contenders. That would tank any actual contenders chances of beating any playoff team.
Concussion?
Probably he looked out on the court
Definitely got dazed if not fully unconcious. It looked like his chin/cheek slammed into the court really hard, so there may be a possible fracture
My worst concussion I didn’t get knocked out, but I did sit there motionless for like a minute basically just thinking “fucking ow wtf ow”.
When you get hit hard enough it takes a moment for you to “turn back on” even if you didn’t lose consciousness.
Yep. Your brain is on but words sometimes don’t come out, emotional regulation is stunted, you’re truly dazed.
As soon as I saw him laying on the floor just thinking “fuck what happened, owie” I knew it was a bad head hit.
About a decade ago I was sleeping on the couch when my dogs asked to be let out at like two in the morning. I let them out and as I was rushing back to go back to sleep I tripped over my boyfriend’s boots and fell chin first on the edge of the coffee table. We had a nanny cam and in the video I swear you see the little stars circle around my head. My eyes kinda roll around like a cartoon for a second before my dumb ass just reaches up and grabs a pillow off the couch, curls up and goes back to sleep right there on the floor with my two dogs staring at me like, “WTF?”
Thankfully it wasn’t a concussion (I think?), but it’s funny how clearly you can see the little spinning “loading” screen on my face as I tried to reboot.
Yeah looks like his mouth was open so he may have broke his jaw
We are about to see black mask Wemby
Damn, he bounced his head a 2nd time on the floor
I know this isn’t the most important part but why was it called a foul? Dude just fell
The foul was initially on the knee to knee.
Because he’s a star in his first playoffs. Refs are calling every tickytack foul on the Blazers. He was coming in out of control and expected the blazers to hold him up but fell down when they didn’t
I’m pretty sure there’s a blazer player that I’ve been watching get tickytack fouls during this game
Why did it take soooo long to get the trainers
theyre waiting for Spurs to take a timeout.
NBA is crap when it comes to injuries and letting play go. There should be some sort of way to stop play and get medics in asap
It’s because so many fuckers are flopping all the time they never know when it’s serious or not. Boy who cried wolf.
Yeah like lebron has gone down 100 times over the course of his career holding his face like he broke his nose just to get up & be fine two minutes later. It’s not as bad as soccer, but dudes really dramatize a lot of stuff on the court
I’ve watched LeBron dab his face checking for blood probably 200+ times and have never actually seen him bleeding
My king doesnt bleed like us humans
I mean if you fall and hit your head on the floor it doesn’t have to be literally concussion level to grab your face in pain. Sometimes you hit something awkwardly and the shit hurts really bad initially but then pain fades quickly. You ever hit your elbow on something? Hurts like hell but then 30-60 seconds later your fine as if nothing happened. I don’t think it’s just acting every time
I know it’s nothing to joke about because injuries can be serious but Carmelo laying out on the court while multiple possessions go by was hilarious
Damn what if a team is out of timeouts… I guess the player gets the Melo treatment and the game goes on 😭
“Play over their corpse until the next dead ball.”
100% slowest reaction I’ve ever seen
NBA is behind NFL in terms of sports nutrition and performance
I’m assuming trainers as well.
When you’re behind the league that spent decades and millions (billions? probably billions) of dollars covering up their rampant injury problems, that’s probably not the best
If coaches or trainers enter the court, the player must be substituted before play resumes.
There was confusion as to whether a foul was called on this play. If this was called a shooting foul, and he was substituted, that could mean he couldn’t return to the game.
Point is, they have to be really careful about just running on the court.
Counterpoint: their GD franchise is laid out on the floor. Take the f’n timeout.
Im crashing the fuck out
He will be fine
Unless he has a broken face…..he should be fine.
Masked Wemby would be fire though
Doubt he’d wear the typical facial injury mask. as he hit his chin.
He can wear the bane mask
Or MF Doom
Black mask return would be sick tho
Alien becomes the Predator
At minimum he’s concussed and going to miss a few games. He could have broken facial bones.
I mean if he got a concussion that could be 2-3 games
Honestly, I got a concussion this past summer from crushing my head on the ceiling inside a boat, and I wasn’t good until like 3-4 months afterwards. Was really scary
It’s a concussion. I’ve had a few
Yup. The “I’m gonna get up now….oh wait no the fuck I am not” is a pretty good sign usually….sucks….
Shams alert said he is entering concussion protocol and is out for the rest of the game.
Hope he’s ok
He was sleeping on the court. Brutal.
Lazy immigrants.
Listen as a Mexican… I really resent what you said: “Taking a nap on the job” but also “crushing it harder than anyone else” are supposed to be OUR stereotypes! Not the god damn French’s.
you still have “drinking budweiser like its water and still outworking everyone else”
Also
“2 dudes with some old tools in a beat up Tacoma doing a job in half the time of a full construction crew”
They stole yer jerbs!
Bruh
This comment is so wild 😂
Not like this
Seriously. Of all the ways someone that tall can get injured, that wasn’t a way any of us had thought of.
If anything I figured the only way he gets hurt is if he sticks one of those long legs on someone else shows and twists his ankle, definitely not from a head injury.
Not like this.
Wemby in the red dress
Hes gotta be careful with those spin moves, this is the second game in a row where someone pulls the chair on him and he hits the deck
100%. Also legit why was that called a foul? Is that not allowed?
Yeah, I’m neutral in this series and IMO Wemby is at fault for his own injury here. His spin was extremely aggressive and he honestly led with his elbow to the face of Holiday which looked pretty reckless. Jrue didn’t do anything wrong, he just got out of the way.
Exactly. I don’t want to see anyone hurt. He did the same thing in game 1 and thankfully the fall wasn’t as bad. But you could see him lose some control and it was scary for both and Jrue in game one.
Wait this exact same thing happened to him in game 1 and it was jrue that was sliding out of the way both times?
Here is the link the comment I actually responded to in game one.
Comment
Yea. Jrue is pretty skilled at pulling the chair, one of the best in the league rn imo. And when you fall from 2 and a half meters with speed, you’re gonna fall hard
Not only that this fall was the 3rd time this game jrue got him with that. The first one he kept his chest there but dropped his hips back caught a shoulder to the face offensive foul. Next time full chair pull lost the ball. Third one concussion
Wemby played into it, its scary that he didnt pick up on it after the second pull. I really hope he has a quick recovery and learns from this, he looked rushed all game, a little bit more patience probably helps him a lot
It’s the second time it’s went bad recently but he’s been doing it a lot. Where he drives then trips and stumbled to the rim.
He got a couple highlights turning it into dunks but it’s constantly an inch away from turning into this
Why weren’t medical staff called over by teammates. It was obvious he was fucked up
Good question. Teammates just stood there and didn’t even check on him really. Very odd
I don’t think they realized the severity until later. Probably though oof hard fall just taking a moment —> hmm he’s taking a while —> wait a minute is he okay?
Yeah I’m thinking some of them didn’t see him smack his head.
Bill Simmons tomorrow: Spurs have a severe culture problem. Look at this clip of wemby eating shit and his teammates don’t even care. The body language. The situation is bad in San Antonio.
They did not see how bad it was. They thought it was a typical fall
He was moving and had eyes open . Victors been known to kinda stay down and embellish the injury. (And I say that as a spurs fan who watch most of the games this season)
Dude was swaying and stumbled trying to get up twice and they were just looking blankly at him though
Wemby has to be more in control. I honestly don’t even think that was a foul. It reminds me of how young Kristaps constantly put himself in injury related situations because he just launched himself
Did a similar move in game one and he ended up on the floor. Thankfully he didn’t get hurt then, but I hope he can learn to get it in more control.
Hope he doesn’t miss more than tonight’s game. That would suck for the league.
Hopefully nothing serious but there’s no way he won’t miss some time for concussion after visibility being knocked unconscious
He 100% is not coming back and if they let him back in they are extremely extremely extremely foolish. Concussions are deadly if you get hit a second time.
NBA concussion protocol only requires a player to miss 48h, game 3 isn’t til Friday (72h).
Realistically, from a medical perspective, he should be out probably at least 10-14 days. But there’s a good chance he can pass the return to play protocol by game 3 and will be back unless he also broke his jaw.
He won’t be back today but he might be fine next game
He will definitely miss the next game. Dude went to sleep. That’s some serious brain to skull trauma
That shit wasn’t even a foul
Did Portland not challenge because they didn’t want to add insult to injury?
they would have won a challenge
Hope he’s okay / not concussed.
Terrible call, he was completely out of control.
Out of control on the spin, tripped himself up on the defender and crashed very hard on the court. That is brutal. So tall and fast the mf got a concussion from the baseline. Hope he comes back alright. Hopefully nothing is broken and it’s a very mild concussion, but damn that shit hurts without a mouth guard.
Out of control on the spin, tripped himself up on the defender and crashed very hard on the court.
Why was it called a foul?
Partially because of general bias towards the offensive player and partially cause it was Wemby that fell
Pulling the chair is perfectly legal
shouldn’t be a foul but refs mostly give the benefit of the doubt to the offensive player when there is contact and the offensive player falls. just a bad call.
Shouldn’t be a foul, wemby was out of control
In what universe could anyone think it would be a foul?
the refs called one
The Spurs sub
This one obviously since the refs called a foul
mightve broke a tooth or hurt his jaw
That’s my fear he broke his jaw
Destroyed a year of Garlands career
It looks like you see his jaw bone shift.. hope it isn’t broken.
Ow that looked really painful
Was worried at first watching live this that it’d be lower body stuff. Don’t get me wrong a hit to the face really sucks but it’s better than going down because of a lower body thing.
Edit: Though watching again it looks like he might’ve gotten knocked out which is crazy. Really hope he’s not concussed and it looks worse than it was.
If you get knocked out you are concussed lol. Most of the time you get a concussion you aren’t knocked unconscious. 100% of the time you are knocked unconscious from a hit to the head, you are concussed
Seemed like a pretty obvious concussion
Damn, he gotta chill with his crazy spin moves, he often just end up falling.
I know this isn’t the most important part but how is that a foul?
by what r/nbaspurs is saying, Jrue pulled out a bat and started beating
That sub is dogshit, the blazers sub all said “not like this” and etc, while the spurs sub were happy when deni hurt his leg in game 1. Check if you don’t believe me. The way these guys bitched about the refs you’d think the spurs got blown out in g1
Clearly the NBA is rigged against the Spurs. That’s why they have such terrible lottery luck.
Can’t believe that was called a foul. Absolute bullshit. You cannot initiate a spin and put your full body weight into it with the expectation of defender resistance. Jrue not using his body to counter Wemby’s spin and dropping his shoulders cannot be a foul.
That said, fully expect this to get reviewed and upgraded to a flagrant somehow.
Tip of the chin is the on off switch for humans……that looked really rough. Could easily be a concussion. Which would fucking suck…..favorite non-Timberwolves player other than KAT. Dude is just so fucking fun to watch, no matter who you are. Need him in the playoffs man.
That boy concussed
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wemby approaches the game like a guard. He is too wrekless for my liking.The new NBA has forced centers that should be playing in the paint to continue to evolve and be more versatile but that’s why shit like this will continue to happen.I hope he’s ok but if its a concussion that changes the complexity of the series.Portland will be able to exploit some match ups.Portland have surprised me.That is a good team man!
Hope bro is ok just a wacky fall
Let’s hope at worst it’s a concussion, hopefully not a facial fracture.
Phantom of the Opera facemask incoming, that would be too French lol
#FUUUUUUCK
The way he’s holding his jaw and mouth makes me think he’s acutely aware of some damage there. He ran off to the locker room, which is not exactly the concussion reaction, I don’t think. I wonder if he broke some teeth or bit into his tongue. Maybe fractured his jaw? He’s covering his mouth as he’s talking to Castle.
Damn it. I hope he’s okay. I want to beat the Spurs and repeat but want the fully healthy spurs. It’s no fun when this stuff happens.
he was asleep
jesus christ that shit really fucks with me i can’t watch it without flinching, hope he’s all good man
Damn bro got knocked out
Hopefully nothing serious, maybe a concussion by the way he was reacting, he hit his head really hard
Hope it’s nothing serious
And someone how it’s a foul on Jrue