Blazers PF Dante Cunningham Takes Elbow To Eye; Leaves Game; Will Not Return
by Ben Golliver on Feb 5, 2011 5:43 PM PST
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With roughly nine minutes to go in the second quarter of a Saturday night game between the Portland Trail Blazers and Cleveland Cavaliers, Blazers power forward Dante Cunningham took an elbow from Cavaliers forward Samardo Samuels to the right side of his face. Cunningham fell to the ground, was attended to by Portland's medical staff and left the game and the court at the first dead ball.
The Blazers informed the media just before halftime that Cunningham would not return to the game, saying only that Cunningham "sustained an elbow to his right eye."
After the game, Cunningham tweeted, "I'm good PDX thank u for the love great win boys!!! Broken face nothing crazy on the way to PDX longest flight ever."
Here's video of the blow in question.
Updates when they become available.
-- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com | Twitter
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Dante has been working hard.
Tough break but he’ll be back.
Get well soon, buddy.
wha??
by Hipster Olympic Team! on Feb 5, 2011 5:55 PM PST via mobile reply actions
somehow, i wouldn't be surprised if he managed to inure his knee in the process of going down.
Jeff Pendergraph:
FGM - 3
FGA - 111
Min - 30
Reb - 10
by Tofu Anonymous on Feb 5, 2011 8:14 PM PST up reply actions
Good thing they didnt sign CJ to another 10 day !
We have Marks and Babbitt to the rescue.
It is a curse, of management/owner that refuse to spend roster spots or $ for back up bigs :(
I hope Dante is ok, that is a dangerous place for an injury. He is needed for the Bulls.
<3 that kid ……
"We've got to get stops ! " ...... Nate McMillan
I liked CJ too but...
If they had signed him, since his roster place was created due to an injury exemption, we would have to force Camby to sit for another two weeks, and the F.O. obviously thinks Camby will be back before then. So CJ will have to wait until a trade opens a roster spot, and then we can bring him back up. Until then he can keep blocking everything in D-League.
All day baby, all day!
And Camby was supposed to be a backup big anyway.
So management does spend money on backup bigs, looking at Camby and Joel’s salaries anyway.
All day baby, all day!
I'm tired of supposed to be....
I expect to much from management, in keeping a stock of bigs that will actually help this team win.
Can someone explain to me why Marks still holds a roster spot, and know we may be down Dante ??
Then how Cuban was able to cut a player and buy out Pejas contract when Butler went down?? Cuban wants to win a championship obviously. I don’t want to hear Mr Allen doesnt have $. He opened that wallet to buy Chacho, and Rudy , then paid the Kings to take Chacho.
Frustrating !!!
"We've got to get stops ! " ...... Nate McMillan
Cuban will do that because he has a team that's in the hunt, and a he needs a piece.
The Blazers aren’t in the hunt. A third string big won’t put them in the hunt. It’s just pissing money away. Now I’m the last person to care if PA wastes his money, but I’m not surprised that he doesn’t want to.
Now if the team was close, yeah, I’d be pissed if he didn’t do what he could. But now? Relax and enjoy the regualr season.
Maybe the Blazers could be in the hunt too,
had they made better moves the last 2 years.
Giving Mills the last roster spot over a back up center , and letting the Lakers walk away with Blake. I don’t want to hear about the Blake/Dre drama. They’re grown men. Man up and play already.
Sorry I’m not happy with management throwing in the towel, when this team is out there working their tails off, with no hope because management doesnt give them any.
Dante has a broken facial bone for god’s sake. It makes my head numb……
"We've got to get stops ! " ...... Nate McMillan
3rd string centers,
haven’t hurt the Spurs or Celtics when needed.
Ok I’m done venting about lack of bigs.
My other peev with management:
Hopefully AJ is being called back to put a body on Rose. Pattycakes isnt going to cut it.
"We've got to get stops ! " ...... Nate McMillan
Paul Allen is already paying right up to the luxury tax
if he adds another salary to the payroll it will cost the franchise double
I’m not saying it won’t happen, but the player who’s acquired had better be “special”
I’m expecting Jeff Adrien will get a 10-day contract if Dante has to miss 5+ games. Adrien is a Cunningham-like banger who was on Portland’s short list when they signed CJ
It’s a shame that DC has to sit, he had just made the first strong post move I had seen him make during an NBA game and scored off the dribble, the other night
When reached 40 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!
Maybe if Mr Allen,
hadn’t spend millions on Rudy and Chacho, (and even maybe Bayless ? ) the lack of back up bigs wouldn’t bother me so much.
Pendergraph goes down, who gets the spot? Trade Bayless for garbage ? The Blazers get an exception for Oden and let it expire ?
I’m not buying what managemet is selling, sorry.
"We've got to get stops ! " ...... Nate McMillan
no ones buying it, in bulk
and the team is mediocre, so why should Paul and the Vulcans pay David Stern money that they don’t need to?
The expectations were high, but the injuries shot ‘em down. We’re not all the way back to 2004, but we’re closer to the valley floor than the mountain top at this point in time
When reached 40 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!
Exactly, they are grown men
But hey, I only make 25k a year, and I get pissed off too when someone tells me I don’t know how to do my job. And I can guarantee that they’ve spent infinitely more time on basketball then I have on my job. It’s all about pride.
Portland could coast along with their superior talent and stay right with us. Now that Portland woke up, the hammer cometh down.
Bayless > Daffy Duck after 3 cans of rockstar
by Batumshakalaka on Feb 7, 2011 1:52 AM PST up reply actions
Cuban's kind of dumb
Pavlovic is currently a more effective player than Peja.
dinasour type of guys choir boys
could be serious
Dante is a tough guy, and he was clearly in a lot of pain. Broken orbital bone or something? This sucks…lace em up Luke, an opportunity lies before you
"If I had a dime for every basket I made today, you'd still suck!" - from the book 'John Dies @ the End'
by sammymohawk on Feb 5, 2011 9:16 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
finally, we can get a player who wears a mask
Jeff Pendergraph:
FGM - 3
FGA - 111
Min - 30
Reb - 10
by Tofu Anonymous on Feb 5, 2011 10:22 PM PST up reply actions
he should have a matching face protection with his mouth guard.
Jeff Pendergraph:
FGM - 3
FGA - 111
Min - 30
Reb - 10
by Tofu Anonymous on Feb 6, 2011 12:03 PM PST up reply actions
One that looks like a skeleton
He’d look so dope
Phase 1: Collect underpants
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!
DC could get one of those "phantom of the opera" clear acrylic masks
like Rip Hamilton wears
When reached 40 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!
that cleared up my sympathy for the Cavs.
nice win.
If Oden does not give up on the Blazers, we should not give up on him.
But the NBA will do the right thing and review the flagrant nature of this uncalled foul
Oh, wait, no, they don’t review all plays the next day, only ones against the NBA politically incorrect Andre Miller versus the NBA pretty boy Blake Griffin, and end Dre’s playing streak.
yeah, it was intentional
There’s just no way a guy’s elbow has that much force when it’s that far behind your body unless you’re trying to smack something with it.
If David and the Sternettes don't suspend this guy...
I guess words fail me. The NBA must issue a fine AND a suspension. This can’t be allowed even against small market Portland. Right???
Now all we need is the rest of the roster to get into "how can everybody help Nicco and Oden" mode. -- Oden Mad, Oden Smash! Sep 29, 2010 7:47 PM
Stern wants to make $ PERIOD!
Garnett slaps at officials with nothing.
"We've got to get stops ! " ...... Nate McMillan
Glad Dante is ok,
If it were too bad, they would not let him fly.
Painful as the Bulls game will be without him, there are more important things in life than basketball :(
"We've got to get stops ! " ...... Nate McMillan
Injuries
I haven’t tracked this, but I’ve watched every game. It seems to me that if there was a statistic for hard fouls, knocked to the floor players (not flops) the blazers take twice as many as they give. Blazer fouls tend to be touch fouls and the opponents knock the Blazers on their butts. Maybe it’s time to give as good as we get. You slam us, we slam you. If you get bullied and don’t stand up….
Bill Cartright's elbows were notoriously sharp
and he refused to wear elbow pads
When reached 40 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!
All I know is Dante is a bad a.
One of the toughest guys on the team hands down and he doesn’t take junk from anyone. When Dante fouls you, you know you were fouled. We def aren’t as tough without him, we need him healthy if we want to keep that toughness going.
Hot sauce in my bag.
im mad about this play
i hope the NBA reviews that play and does something fine him or even just give him a flagrant. that was not an errant elbow he knew Cunningham was behind him when he threw his arm back, he was frustrated that dante knocked the ball away from him just seconds earlier. Dante your a soldier and a big part of what we do! Get Better best of luck and a speeeeeedy recovery! lol
" Yeah, this is pretty much me, every day. Staring at butt holes and getting my buzz on. "
i know the nba wont do anything about it because its hard to prove it was incidental contact but i had to vent a bit. dante’s one of my favorite blazers and this injury really hurts our team. Thoughts and prayers go out to dante and his family.
" Yeah, this is pretty much me, every day. Staring at butt holes and getting my buzz on. "
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