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  1. 2 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

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    You can tell I'm an OU fan as I stared at that for far too long.  I'll catch a half then have some parties to hit here in Miami.  I know you don't give a fuck.  In the end, titties win over watching my methheads beat up on some other hillbillies.  Happy Friday, fuckfaces. 

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  2. 5 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    Thanks for the article. He's such a physical outlier anyway, One of one. I don't know how analogous adolescent academy soccer players playing for a club team in Europe are to the type of specific training and attention to injury prevention that Wemby has been going through since he was 14 years old. The strained calf and the ankle sprains I think are par for the course for NBA players in general. 

    I was speaking more specifically to the deep vein thrombosis than growth-related injuries like Osgood-Schlatter´s disease. Since that's what knocked him out of the season last year. I think the reports that he's still growing are bullshit, but who knows? He played 71 games as a rookie and then 46 out of 52 games last year before the DVT. But for sure injuries were always going to be the biggest question about his career.

    For me he passes the eye ball test.  He doesn’t have the acromegaly features Oden did for example.  I think he will be around a long time and be an all time great but anyone that height is a crapshoot.   

    DVT’s are very often a sign of some other underlying condition so I can’t be sure on that one.  
     

  3. 47 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

     

    They always have been and will continue to be extremely cautious with him as they are with all of their players coming off injury. But he's not on any sort of permanent minutes restriction as far as I know. He played 20 minutes against OKC. 25 last night. They are just ramping him up.  He was playing ~35 minutes a game before he got hurt. He's 21. You guys are dreaming / being ridiculous.

    With regard to comparisons to Holmgren, you're the doctor... you tell me the likelihood of the deep vein thrombosis coming back to be something chronic or that is career altering? That seems like a one off, especially in the upper body. Chet, on the other hand, had a lisfranc injury before he ever played an NBA game and fractured his pelvis. He seems a lot more fragile to me and he doesn't look like he's filling out the way Wemby is even though he's two years older.

    I hope the Spurs remain extremely cautious with Vic not only for his long term health but also to the point where they keep him out enough to not hit 65 games and isn't eligible for the super max. Helps their cap down the road. As long as he's healthy for the playoffs... 

    My doctor hat?  Not even close - anyone growing like Wemby is at that age is MUCH more susceptible to injury.  That’s not normal and in the rare instances you see it, yeah, the vast majority of times you start to see chronic issues.  
    Maybe it was BS rumors but several sources said he grew 2-3 inches in the last year or so.  That’s absolutely insane at his age and prior height.  
     

    edit: tons of studies.  Not often I post NIH here…

    Overall injury incidence and burden were greater in pre-PHV players with quicker growth rates compared to players growing moderately and slowly. All in all, players with more rapid growth-rates were at higher risk for growth-related injuries in all pre-, circa- and post-PHV periods. Post-PHV, the incidence and burden of joint/ligament injuries were 2.4 and 2.6-times greater in players growing slowly compared to players growing moderately. Practitioners should monitor growth rate and maturity status and consider their interaction to facilitate the design of targeted injury risk reduction strategies.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10765440/

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  4. 7 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    @ChiTownDoc can you tell me how fast somebody could contract ass cancer, and then die a horrible death from it?  

    Should I be rooting for another ailment for this orange cunt? 

    Choking on a Big Mac is still my leader in the clubhouse…

    But yeah, ass cancer is no picnic.  Today could be that day!

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  5. 34 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    He's on a minutes restriction the entire season?  That makes the "built for this" even more cringe. 

    They haven’t stated it but yeah imo they’ll be extremely cautious with him.  

  6. 6 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

    Are you stupid or something, Chet was drafted a year before Wemby and has played in 6 more games than him

    Wemby has played in 43% of games.  Chet 30%.  They’re both in the same class of fragile.  
     


    edit: looked that up few days ago after I guessed they were 10% apart.  It’s close to what I quoted above.  Take wemby’s minutes restriction rest of this year and they’ll likely get closer to percentage playing time missed.  

  7. On 12/11/2025 at 11:03 AM, Uncle Nate said:

    Excuse me for not being the all-knowing vetter of all things X.

    I saw it, it was interesting and bizarre, so I thought I would share it at the place that has typically enjoyed the interesting and bizarre.

    ‘A place that typically enjoys the interesting and bizarre.’

    Damn.  Need that as the permanent banner.  Maybe Nicole’s pic next to the quote.  

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  8. 3 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Oh okay so the Harden trade is good now since you won a title 12 years later. Thanks for clearing that up for us. 

    Lol.  So he still cries about that trade?  Have you ever succeeded at anything in life?   You dwell on the past?   Really odd comment.  But maybe that’s how you live…

  9. 53 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    It's amazing how instantly insecure the OKC fans become after losing their biggest game of the season and seeing the Boogeyman hand them an L despite playing just 20 minutes. Saw some comment on instagram from some rando saying the same "we'll win it when it matters!" shit. Maybe SGA can massage his vagina to 12 FTAs next time we play. 

    Take the fucking loss, pussies. 

    Yes so insecure.  This from the guy who said Presti doesn’t go a day without regretting the Harden trade.  Literally the dumbest comment I’ve ever seen on these boards.  

  10. 11 minutes ago, Kermit said:

    Dude, hasn’t he played a higher percentage of his NBA games than Chet? 

    I’d guess Chet has missed at least 10% more games but point remains they’re both fragile.  

    Here’s the issue.  OKC without Chet is still the odds on favorite.  SA without Wemby can make the playoffs and that’s about it.  Although they’re much better without him than I’d have guessed.  

  11. 1 hour ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    OKC is a great team, possibly an all time great team, and they're probably going to win 70 games and the title again. But their record and point differential at this point of the season is a little bit of fool's gold. I said it a couple of weeks ago, but they have played the weakest schedule in the league and they've had some opponents injury luck as well. Granted they've been without Williams almost the entire season but they're so deep and they've been getting teams into garbage time so early, that their second unit keeps pouring it on so the numbers are a little skewed. Credit to them for being  damn near 15 deep, but they are running it up on some scrubs. That isn't going to necessarily help them come playoff time.

    Go back through their schedule and tell me what their best win of the season is? Maybe opening night at home in 2OT against Houston? They smashed a mostly healthy Golden State at home. They beat Minnesota by 8 at home in a cup game. I guess they smacked the Lakers without Lebron pretty good. Maybe the league is a bit overrated this year?  I'd really like to see them match up with Denver. I'd like to see them against Houston again. I'd like to see them play anyone from the east with a pulse. Those two games against the Spurs over the next 10 days should be fun, too. 

    I’d actually reference their point differential last year and not this year if I’m making my case.  
    No disagreement with anything you said.  

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