Spanish Reports: Rudy Fernandez Injures Hamstring; Blazers Say Rudy Out 7-10 Days
by Ben Golliver on Sep 2, 2009 7:43 PM PDT
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PrintUpdate (7:41 PM): Blazersedge has learned that Rudy Fernandez is out 7-10 days with what a team official called a "thigh contusion."
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Thanks to Norsktroll for this article. EuropaPress.Es -- a Spanish website -- is reporting that Rudy Fernandez has suffered a hamstring injury on his right leg during the run-up to this summer's EuroBasket tournament.
The article states that the injury forced Rudy to leave practice this morning and that it may take up to 48 hours for further information to develop.
Update: LaVanguardia.Es -- another Spanish website -- also has a report. They refer to the injury as a "minor hamstring injury" and confirm that the recovery time will not be known for at least 48 hours.
Update: ElMundo.Es -- another Spanish website -- reports that Rudy is doubtful for the start of EuroBasket. The report also states the injury occurred while Rudy was shooting a 3 pointer.
Update: Marca.com -- another Spanish website, the bane of my existence -- has another report. Here's a good translation of Marca's relatively optimistic report, courtesy of Good Work Doc Roberts.
Rudy Believes that He Will Return in Time for the Start of Eurobasket
The guard will have to wait 48 hours to know the exact extent of the injury, but is optimistic. He suffered a sprain in the last Spanish Team practice.
Jose Luis Martinez - Madrid 9/2/2009 3:23 PM
Rudy Fernández has had to leave the last team practice with a sprain in the right leg, but, as has assured the Blazers guard himself, it's possible that he will recover in time for the start of Eurobasket, on September 7th versus Serbia.Rudy has submitted to various medical tests that have revealed a superficial tear, specifically a small, two centimeter break in the hamstring of his right leg. The team doctors have urged patience and will wait 48 hours to know the exact extent of the tear, as this period is key to determining the downtime needed (for recovery).
In whatever case, both the player and the doctors are optimistic and consider the first examinations to have been good. "We have to see how it all evolves, luckily, it's only been small. I noticed a strong pinch on defense, but I believe that on the 7th I'll be there for sure," Rudy has assured us before traveling to Lithuania.
-- Ben (benjamin.golliver@gmail.com)
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just like brp predicted michael jackson's death
I tweeted this morning that I had a bad feeling about the blazers, a sense of inpending doom
Instead of scandelous gred oden pics as I predicted, we get a hammy injury by rudy.
1. that sux
2. now travis has playtime :(
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - Casey Dillon Stengel
by BlazerFan1 on Sep 2, 2009 9:18 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
oh, knock off the tired old Travis bashing
If you keep bashing Travis, someone is going to post that pic of you with your arm around his shoulder and that adoring smile on your face.
Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
-W.H. Auden
by Love on Sep 2, 2009 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
yeah it's still up on my facebook,
it just represents how hopeful I was
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The Princess of Blazersedge
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - Casey Dillon Stengel
What would be so wrong about "scandelous" Greg Oden photographs?
For one, I’d find Oden doing something salacious with a lady friend to mean that he’s in a happy mood.
Then again, I’m not someone who finds taking pics or taping that kind of stuff to be lewd and lascivious.
Stupid people have stupid ideas.
I was thinking scandelous pics of Greg with a male friend which would indicate he's also in a happy mood
not that this is BAD mind you, it would just cause a stir, like rudy’s injury has.
:-)
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The Princess of Blazersedge
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - Casey Dillon Stengel
I think that would cause more than a stir, even though I couldn't care less either way.
To the best of my knowledge, though, Greg Oden is straight and has a long-term girlfriend.
Anyhow, if someone in the NBA today is bisexual, I’d put my money on it being Richard Jefferson.
Of course, you may be referring to Oden somehow getting caught smoking pot with some friends.
If that’s the case, then I wouldn’t expect much of an uproar. The media could draw some parallels between him and Michael Beasley, however, which’d possibly be some hard press for him to deal with both nationally and locally.
Even if Oden smokes weed — which wouldn’t shock me one bit — I bet he’s savvy enough to do it under the radar. The main thing for a NBA player is to not be blatant about getting high, which was Beasley’s problem with his brazen tweeting and whatnot.
Stupid people have stupid ideas.
I don't think beaz. was bein brazen posting those pics on twitter, I don't even think
beaz is smart enough to use twitter, I just think he took the pic, while hi, and forgot the weed was behind him..LOL
i couldn’t care if an athlete smokes weed. I suspect greg to b involved in way more shady stuff tho.
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Sport is my boyfriend
Yeah, Michael Beasley definitely seems like someone who just isn't sharp enough to ...
realize that he put himself in a precarious position by taking a photo when baked while the remainder of his stash was behind him.
I, too, don’t care if an professional athlete smokes weed, while I also am apathetic toward guys like Chris Andersen who once enjoyed a few lines of the nose candy now and again.
Of course, the NBA had a huge problem with cocaine back in the late-‘70s/early-’80s; thus, it takes strong measurements with players who use it nowadays, which totally explains the two-year suspension that Andersen received in the not too distant past.
So, if Oden went all Roy Tarpley on the Portland Trail Blazers, I’d be pissed not because of his choice to use hard drugs, but rather the negative impact it’d’ve have on the organization as a whole. Though, it’d make for an interesting saga.
Stupid people have stupid ideas.
This is old news
medmelon told the Junk Drawer hours ago.
Rudy has a small injury
2 cm hamstring tear, doubtful for the starting matches of the Eurobasket
Junk Drawer > Twitter and Google News Alert ;-)
There's Gotta Be More To Life
by Norsktroll on Sep 2, 2009 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Give him some steroids and a high protein diet. Isn't that how they are doing it these days?
"And our second unit can probably start in most NBA cities." -Maurice Lucas
You mean "over the counter suppplements and a strong rehab schedule?"
I thought that was what the MLB was using these days.
Rudy Fernandez had to leave a training session that was determining the Spanish team for a tournament, suffered an injury to his right leg.
“After a quick look at the injured area it appears Rudy suffered a small muscle tear in his hamstring” said the Spanish Team’s doctor.
The federation says there will be a better diagnosis in 48 hours as to the extent of the injury and as to whether he will be able to rejoin his teammates in training.
On a personal note I’ve dealt with hamstring pulls and tears in my track career and with a tear it can be anywhere from 1-12 weeks before you are back to full speed. It really depends on the location of the tear as well as the severity, the higher up on the hamstring the more severe. Again my experience is with attempting to run at full speed, of which the hamstring is very important. It is possible that for the moves one makes in basketball it is not as important for the hamstring to be fully healed to get back to playing.
Heck, it can even be longer than 12 weeks....
if it’s a REALLY bad tear, but it doesn’t sound like that based on what we’re reading.
"I'm a man, but I can change.....if I have to......I guess." - Red Green
by antediluvian on Sep 2, 2009 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, if the whole hamstring has torn into two distinct pieces I imagine it would take awhile.
But shouldn’t a REALLY bad tear show cinched up muscle tissue as an obvious sign?
*Unless KP has a secret plan that makes this statement incorrect.
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It took 6 months
for my daughter’s hamstring to fully recover from a serious tear. She was a sprinter in track and tore it while leaning forward making a handoff in a relay. The resulting bruise turned every shade in the rainbow over about a month, and took 6 months until she could jump and stretch without serious pain.
But you also see high level athletes recover from some hamstring strains or even small tears in a very short time. I’m hoping Rudy is 100% by training camp.
"I'm a man, but I can change.....if I have to......I guess." - Red Green
by antediluvian on Sep 2, 2009 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions
That sucks.
I was a long distance runner, so it is my knees that I’m careful with. I was into the sport enough that when I sliced open the front of my knee down to the tendons (BMX biking) I kept going to practice. I put down a lot of miles by hopping on one foot.
The coaches held me out of any races, but, needless to say, I could really tear it up after I healed.
Your daughter’s situation sounds much worse. I’d rather have a big bleeding mess than some internal problem. I guess the best that can be said is it is lucky she got the injury in a highly vascular tissue, which probably explains the bruise.
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Hopefully
Hopefully it is a minor hamstring injury and force him to rest until fall camp.
Non-news
Season doesn’t start for another two months. He may miss preseason time, but come regular season time he should be fine.
Ben, it's great that Marca is the bane of your existence
If that’s all you gotta worry about, you lead a charmed life. :-)
Where does Blake fall into that
whole BANE area for Ben?
"I'm a man, but I can change.....if I have to......I guess." - Red Green
by antediluvian on Sep 2, 2009 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
It does show his complex feelings that he hates on Sergio & Blake.
But likes Miller who also stands in the way Bayless.
Are you the bizarro Larry Bird, Ben?
PS. I also dislike Marca.
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Miller is old and will get out of the way in a year or two
It’s safe for Ben to like him.
"if Nate has Roy or Miller in the game at all times, that stagnation will turn into conflagration" -- two4larue
Is Miller that much older than Blake?
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4 years, I think
"if Nate has Roy or Miller in the game at all times, that stagnation will turn into conflagration" -- two4larue
Eh, 20 bucks said he just pulled it, or strained it. He’ll be fine for training camp. The sky isn’t falling.
Regarding Hedo Türkoğlu:
Look at the bright side, Blazers fans -- you dodged a bullet. He peaked statistically two years ago. He's allegedly 30 but could be closer to 32 or 33 for all we know. (Do you trust Turkish birth certificates? And isn't it weird that he played four years of pro ball in Turkey in the 1990s?)
- Bill Simmons of ESPN.com
Noooo
Rudy….Come back…Escuche…No more Eurobasketball. Same goes for Nic.
The Kings have the best bench I’ve seen. There are easily 14 guys on this team good enough for every bench in the league. Now if we could only get some starters, I’d totally jizz in my pants.
Kings fan
Rudy Fernández suffers from “a small fibrillary breakage” in the right leg
MADRID, 2 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) – the Balearic eaves of the Portland Trail Blazers, Rudy Fernández, who had to abandon the morning session of the Spanish team basketball training in the Antonio Magariños Madrid Sports Centre, suffers the right leg muscle injury.
“Once made a first exploration of the injured area, Rudy Fernández suffers a small fibrillary break in the isquiosural of the right leg muscles”, says the first medical part disseminated by the FEB on the status of the Majorcan starred the shock of morning hours.
In addition, from the Federation “estimated that of 48 hours will fail a more concrete outcome on time in which the player must save rest before rejoin workouts with the rest of their peers”.
It should not be forgotten that the Spanish delegation undertakes a course to Lithuania where tomorrow held a friendly to the local selection to Poland, where Spain debutará on 7 September to Serbia in the Eurobasket hours
Playoffs
Well, that settles it...
I vote that we all meet at the Burnside Bridge and jump at 4pm… if you’re not in Portland, you can go to your nearest bridge at 4 and live blog it… but a small tear spells the end of our championship window so we might as well all end it now
The injury occurred while Rudy was shooting a 3 pointer?!?
Well I guess that’s not as bad as blowing up your knee getting up off the couch……..
2-4 the who
I know, right?
Blake & Przy do MMA in their free time.
Apparently DDR & playing horse are far more dangerous.
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damit
i knew we should have traded him while his value was still high.
o well marty better step up and break out
Trade for Luis Amundson!!Do it KP!!
Not a Big Deal - Read a Good Translation Here
He Has a Small Break in his Right Leg
Rudy Believes that He Will Return in Time for the Start of Eurobasket
The guard will have to wait 48 hours to know the exact extent of the injury, but is optimistic. He suffered a sprain in the last Spanish Team practice.
Jose Luis Martinez – Madrid 9/2/2009 3:23 PM
Rudy Fernández has had to leave the last team practice with a sprain in the right leg, but, as has assured the Blazers guard himself, it’s possible that he will recover in time for the start of Eurobasket, on September 7th versus Serbia.
Rudy has submitted to various medical tests that have revealed a superficial tear, specifically a small, two centimeter break in the hamstring of his right leg. The team doctors have urged patience and will wait 48 hours to know the exact extent of the tear, as this period is key to determining the downtime needed (for recovery).
In whatever case, both the player and the doctors are optimistic and consider the first examinations to have been good. "We have to see how it all evolves, luckily, it’s only been small. I noticed a strong pinch on defense, but I believe that on the 7th I’ll be there for sure," Rudy has assured us before traveling to Lithuania.
I know a little about a lot and a lot about very little.
by Good Work Doc Roberts on Sep 2, 2009 1:41 PM PDT reply actions
A SMALL BREAK IN HIS RIGHT LEG???!!!
AAAAGHHHHHH!!!!
Oh, “break” meaning “tear”. Dang language barrier.
What? “Hamstring” is the Spanish word for “microfracture”?
AAAAGHHHHHH!!!!
The cowards never started
The weak died along the way
Only the strong survived
They were the Trailblazers
"musculatura isquiosural", mentioned by Lavanguardia, is the three hamstring muscles, Semitendinosus, Semimembranosus and Biceps femoris, and problems in this muscles around the posterior pelvis may cause "low back spasms"!.
Link to a Spanish medical read (page 85, 4.4.1)
I´ve found these links in English:
Perhaps Rudy should take more attention to these muscles.
by amlmart1 on Sep 2, 2009 2:28 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Blazers need to summon him back to Portland now and not let him leave. You
get one chance to go and play with your nationa team. You get hurt you need to stop.
Is 2 centimeters
really a “small” tear? Last I remember that’s nearly an inch in length. Stupid metric system!
Those Euro team trainers must think
we just fell off the turnip lorry. I shake my fist in their eye.
its a tear!!! that takes way longer than 10 days...
anyone who has played ball and has strained a hamstring knows whats in store for you.
I'm not too worried ...
anyone remember Brandon pulling a hamstring this last season and only missing 4 games? It doesn’t sound like Rudy’s too worried about it, nor the team so hopefully it’s really not too bad. I do wonder if he’ll have to fly back and have it looked at if the prognosis isn’t better when they recheck it.
If anything, he may have to sit out the Eurobasket (which I’m sure he won’t be terribly pleased with but …) but will hopefully be in better shape by the end of the month.
Rudy Fernandez couldn’t be reached for comment. He was too busy switching on the pick and roll.
"If the Lakers are Hollywood, then we are South Central." - Clipper fan.
by Cablinasian on Sep 2, 2009 8:05 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
or eating brownies in the locker room.
"Ain't nothin' in this world for free."
by Arby on Sep 2, 2009 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
How weak!
Rudy just needs to man up and get back on the floor. Spain’s treating this like we did with Oden last year! Sheesh…
Blazers win!
by The X-man on Sep 3, 2009 12:57 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
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Considering how injuries seem to always wind up sidelining a player WAY longer than predicted, I would expect that 7-10 days will actually turn out to be 3-4 months.
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