Los Angeles Clippers star Blake Griffin has been forced to pull out of the Sunday charity exhibition game in Oklahoma City co-headlined by Kevin Durant because of a cut on his right foot, according to sources close to Griffin.
The former Oklahoma standout sustained a cut while in the ocean that required “a few stitches,” according to one source.
The injury is not serious, sources said, but will prevent Griffin from playing in the game Sunday night at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City, which holds roughly 14,000 for basketball games.
While players like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Paul will also be participating in the game, CBS’ Royce Young does make the point that Griffin being out takes away from the game’s “battle for Oklahoma” storyline, as Durant is the best player in Thunder history and Griffin had one of the best Oklahoma college careers in recent memory.
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That's a bummer...
Hope he heals in time for the big china tour.
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7123689/nba-lockout-players-planning-two-week-exhibition-tour-sources-say
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Donald Sterling: Who is this?
ClipperCurse Demon: You know who it is. You need to talk to me.
Donald Sterling: I don't need to talk to you.
ClipperCurse Demon: I think you do. Do you know where I'm going?
Donald Sterling: Why would I care where you're going?
ClipperCurse Demon: He can't hide in OKC.
Donald Sterling: So what are you going to OKC for?
ClipperCurse Demon: You know how this is going to turn out, don't you?
Donald Sterling: Nope.
ClipperCurse Demon: I think you do. So this is what I'll offer - you bring me the money and I'll let him live. Otherwise he's accountable, same as you. That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't.
Donald Sterling: You know he won't be there.
ClipperCurse Demon: It doesn't make any difference where he is. David Lee tried to run to Oakland. Did it save him?
Donald Sterling: You did David Lee?
ClipperCurse Demon: You think he almost lost his arm because of Wilson Chandler's tooth? You think Chandler is a Komodo Dragon?
Donald Sterling: You're insane.
ClipperCurse Demon: You can save him, but he'll never be the same again.
Donald Sterling: I'll get more money. I'll sell the Training Facility.
ClipperCurse Demon: It'll start with an infection. Some mucous from a sea urchin. Nobody will think it's serious.
Donald Sterling: You swine!
ClipperCurse Demon: It will swell to the size of a baseball. The doctors won't know what to do. There will be emergency foot surgery to save the foot.
Donald Sterling: Take my wife, please!
ClipperCurse Demon: He'll try to make a comeback next year, but he'll lose his jump, he'll lose his balance. He'll keep trying, and you won't get an injury exception.
Donald Sterling: Basterd!
ClipperCurse Demon: The lockout will alter the draft order. You will pick 14th in 2012.
Donald Sterling: Aaaargh!
ClipperCurse Demon: What's the most you ever lost in a ping-pong ball draw...
Donald Sterling: Uhrff. Hand me my heart medication.
ClipperCurse Demon: Tell Bison Dele that I said hello.
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Pretty funny JG....
This foot injury is a bad omen to Clipper fans; could have been a Stone fish and then lost his leg...We all witness the Wild man go for loose balls, and diving into the crowd, and hitting the floor hard. Does he look like he has any fear of injury doing this...? I wish we had some "fear pills" to cause fear.. Give them to the wild man in off season.
Next week for " The no contract players"; it is Hang gliding and then a deep sea " sea snake round up". extra points for bare handed for the brave..! Then there is mountain climbing, and ski jumping next month. Yes Sir, some players don't know when to be cautious or when to have fear. He injures his self all the time. I always believed, If he does get a serious injury it would be, to break his neck.
It made me wonder though, are those things really any worse or more dangerous then; Dating Lindsay Lohan, or Paris Hilton..?
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I blame Rhy1244 for Griffin's cut foot. Rhy1244 was a jinx, as usual, in creating the KD v Blake in OKC thread.
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JGlanton, thanks for the movie recommendation in this thread. I'll try to rent No Country For Old Men this weekend.
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Good job. Maybe you'll understand it. None of my friends did.
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They're not as sophisticated as me.
*** now don't click on the thread where I link to a bunch of nighttime stars avatars, lol. ***
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What were your friends' reactions to the movie, and what mistake did they make in interpreting it, in your opinion? Or what did they miss out on?
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They thought it was a drug war action thriller. They completely missed the classic tragedy, the symbolism. What did the room number mean? What time was it? Why won't Chigurh die? Who will carry the fire for humanity?
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I thought about these things questions while watching the movie.
Two things about the room number at the El Paso Motel, room 114:
A. Director Stanley Kubrick has used the number 114 in his movies, such as "A Clockwork Orange", "Eyes Wide Shut", "Dr. Strangelove", and "2001: A Space Odyssey".
I've seen the first two movies, and that number in them. I then had to look up to see if it was also in "The Shining", but that was a different room number.
Other movies have paid homage to the number 114. It was the number on an amplifier in "Back To The Future", for example.
B. As for what took place in room 114 in the El Paso Motel, Chigurh could have retrieved the money either through the air duct vent in room 114, or he could have gone to an adjacent back room to 114 and gotten the money through that room's air duct vent (since he knew Moss used the adjacent back room at the Del Rio motel from earlier in the movie). So that was the actual purpose of showing the room number, with respect to this movie. To imply that Chigurh used the knowledge of the room number specifically to help him retrieve the money, whether in room 114 or the adjacent back room.
That's also why the movie made the room numbers pertinent at the Del Rio Motel, to convey to the viewers what happened at the El Paso Motel, without showing what happened.
1980, when the border drug wars were getting more violent. The movie also starts in June 1980. The phone bills from Llewelyn Moss and Carla Jean are from 1980.
Throughout the movie, Ed Tom Bell talks about changing times now, and seems to be resigned to the fact that he can't keep up with them.
* Says his father, also a sheriff, didn't carry a gun, but now Ed Tom himself has to in these days.
* The local sheriff in El Paso talks about how there's kids with "with green hair, bones in their noses". Another sentiment that times have changed too much for these characters, and they are not happy about it. They are having trouble relating to it, and dealing with it.
This movie was about Chigurh chasing Moss, and Wells chasing Chigurh. Yet Chigurh never really caught up to Moss, beyond one shootout in which Chigurh retreated. By the time Chigurh caught up to Moss in El Paso, he had already been killed by the Mexicans.
Chigurh not dying, nor even being caught, represents the continuing evil that exists. The evil that Bell's uncle says "can't be stopped".
Bell can manage.
Throughout the movie, he's afraid that he can't live up to his job as a law enforcement officer. He's having trouble dealing with the new criminals; the violence associated with the border drug wars; and protecting civilians such as Carla Jean, or the ones at the El Paso motel. These criminals have no remorse.
Chigurh feels like a "ghost" to Bell, in that Bell can't seem to catch Chigurh.
But Bell has two dreams at the end. Bell describes the second one, in which while Bell is riding through the "dark and cold" (representing death, fear, and the unknown), his father will still be there at the end, with "fire" (representing protection and hope). So this implies that the world is always dark and cold, but there's always hope at the end.
Bell also has this dream after chatting with his Uncle Ellis from a few weeks ago. His uncle said "This country's hard on people. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waitin' on you. That's vanity."
Meaning that the world has always been this dark and violent. And one person can't stop all of it. One person can't take all of that responsibility upon himself. His uncle seemed to offer a message of perseverance though. To stick through it, and not let the world get to him. And so since Bell had that interpretive hopeful second dream (my interpretation anyways), it implies that Bell hasn't given up, and will "carry the fire". He felt his uncle's message. Maybe he'd even un-retire.
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Question: How did Chigurh know that Moss would be at the El Paso Motel?
Agnes told the Mexicans, and so that's how they knew where Moss would be. And Carla Jean told Bell, so that's how he knew where Moss would be. But how did Chigurh know? Is it implied that a man this resourceful could have found a way? Could he have extracted the information from Agnes or Carla Jean by calling them, just like he called them earlier and found out that Moss wasn't headed to Odessa?
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Lol, I like the komodo dragon reference.
and I'll take half the credit for Griffin's foot. I think 50% goes to Sooner. I gave him a simple assignment, but he had to make it impossible to complete.