“It Was A Pretty Clean Snap, Mate”

Yeah, yeah, yeah… I know what you’re thinking:

“Oh, wow, the poor kid broke his arm. Whatever. It was hard foul and he fell pretty awkward on it. Didn’t really look that bad though. Big deal, Skeets. Go write a stupid post that involves Eddy Curry grocery shopping or something, then give me a call.”

Umm… fair. It didn’t really look that bad. You’re right.

Now read this report and watch it again:

Brad Hill knew he was in trouble as he hit the hardwood after being taken down in mid-flight by Townsville’s Larry Abney on Friday.

The 36ers’ tyro had the ball on the break and was only thinking one thing - hammer down a dunk. But in the air, Abney, 11cm taller and 19kg heavier, intentionally crashed into the airborne Hill, whose awkward landing produced the most horrific injury in an NBL game in Adelaide.

Both bones in Hill’s right arm snapped, with one protruding, the young guard rushed to hospital by ambulance. Two-hour surgery on Saturday meant the insertion of two plates and screws, his arm in plaster for the next three weeks, his season over.

[…]

Hill said he knew something was horribly wrong and Sixers’ team doctor Graham Lewis was off the bench and out to him on court in a flash. “Doc noticed straight away,” Hill said. “He noticed before I did.”

Holding his arm in place, Hill immediately was taken into the change-room area. “I never actually saw the bone coming out but I knew it was all out of whack,” he said. “I knew it was wrong.”

[…]

Hill said because the break had been “a pretty clean snap”, he was “pretty happy”. “I was in a bit of shock with it all,” he said of the incident’s immediate aftermath. “I had painkillers and because there wasn’t any appropriate bandage, they wrapped my arm in a roll of posters to stabilise [sic] it.”

Mmmmm… enjoy those Saturday morning eggs!

Hardwood Hit Spelt Trouble [AdelaideNow]
Brad Hill Broken Arm [YouTube]

(Thx to Jesse in Melbourne for the heads up.)

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By J.E. Skeets at 12:10 pm on 11.18.2006 — Tags: Injuries, International, Media

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5 Responses to ““It Was A Pretty Clean Snap, Mate””

  1. SG at 3:38 pm on 11.18.2006

    “Naughty, naughty.”

  2. Unsilent Majority at 6:12 pm on 11.18.2006

    krikey

  3. J.E. Skeets at 9:08 pm on 11.18.2006

    Larry Abney also killed the Crocodile Hunter. Pass it on.

  4. Matt at 11:05 pm on 11.18.2006

    Maybe that’s what fired Andrew Bogut up… finally a double-double.

  5. Marco at 9:00 pm on 11.20.2006

    Thanks for the NBL vid - not to many of them floating around. (But the way, if I’m gonna rip-off someone else’s work, I might as well reference it, which is something they taught me at law school.)

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