Nastiest Injury you've witnessed....

[DonInKansas]

After catching the highlights of the Clippers game and seeing the nausea-inducing replay of Shawn Livingston dislocating his kneecap, it got me to thinking---What's the worst injury you've seen on-court? We had a JV game out this way a couple months ago where two kids cracked heads diving after a loose ball. Both were knocked unconscious and had to be taken to the hospital. That sound was just nasty......

[Rich]

Originally Posted by DonInKansas

After catching the highlights of the Clippers game and seeing the nausea-inducing replay of Shawn Livingston dislocating his kneecap, it got me to thinking---What's the worst injury you've seen on-court? We had a JV game out this way a couple months ago where two kids cracked heads diving after a loose ball. Both were knocked unconscious and had to be taken to the hospital. That sound was just nasty......

Me dislocating my kneecap in January, of course. To be fair, my kneecap didn't have to be put back into place, though, so my injury paled to his.

[blindzebra]

I had a player go up for a shot, lost his balance when it was blocked and landed first on his hand, full force, breaking his wrist.

I did a mens league game where a player drove as a post guy stuck out his hand and got him in the face. The guy literally had a hand print on his face, broken nose, eye swollen shut, and lots and lots of blood.

[JRutledge]

I saw a dislocated ankle. Kid went up on his own and came down wrong without being fouled. His leg was one way, his foot going another. We delayed the game for about 40 minutes. It did not look good.

Peace

[WhistlesAndStripes]

Couple years ago, during a timeout, I was standing down on the block. The cheerleaders were behind me doing their routine, one where some of the firls on the floor raise another girl up standing on their hands. And yes, a shriek followed by a thud. Didn't knock her out. Just a little woozy.

And a couple weeks ago, similar thing happened between quarters, although this time it was 2 of these same formations facing back to back. The girl on top of pyramid #1 came down wrong, and the spot girl behind her got knocked over into the legs of one of the girls in the pyramid behind her. Amazingly, they all walked away from that one.

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I saw a dislocated ankle. Kid went up on his own and came down wrong without being fouled. His leg was one way, his foot going another. We delayed the game for about 40 minutes. It did not look good.

Peace

I saw this too. It is not a pretty sight to see the bottom of the foot facing to the right instead of down at the floor.
Ironically, they just showed the Livingston highlight and I didn't watch.

On a side note, Tracy McGrady is one of the softest players I have ever seen in the NBA.

[PIAA REF]

The worst injury I have seen happened in a summer camp game. A player was trying to save a ball in the corner and his momentum took him into a post about 8ft off the court. He hit his head on the corner of the post and cut one his arteries in his head. blood was everywhere. Luckily there was a paramedic nearby and he was able to control the bleeding until the ambulance got there.

[K-Bach]

Guard driving for an uncontested dunk. He decides to finish with a flourish, but the tension on the rim pulls his hand up as his body descends. I saw his arm stretch weirdly at the elbow -- dislocation. When he hit the ground, his ulna was clearly beside the humerus.

I still shiver when I recall it.

[eg-italy]

A dislocated elbow: a player jumped to rebound, lost his balance and fell just on his elbow. Terrible to see. I said to just cover him and call an ambulance.

It was before a doctor was required at every major game in Italy; some leagues now require also an ambulance with a defibrillator.

Another strange injury was to my partner in a wheelchair basketball game: his foot went under a wheel. He couldn't finish the game, but fortunately he had no big damage. I learnt how painful it can be: don't try.

Ciao

[IREFU2]

I havent seen nothing bad other than a bloody nose.

[Mountaineer]

Just thought of a couple that happened to a buddy of mine in South Carolina. He was actually a ref that scheduled my officials for my HS team I coached. He actually had a guy loose a finger on a dunk! Men's league and the idiot kept his wedding ring on which got stuck on the rim and according to my friend - stayed up on the rim after the dunk.

Same year - a guy came off the court from shooting FT's. Gave everyone on the bench high 5's. Sat down on the bench, put a towel on his head and DIED! Not gross, but certainly very traumatic!

[grunewar]

I've seen mucho blood from a head injury, a ring finger momentarily caught in the net, and a dislocated ankle.....but, I certainly can not get into a battle of "can you top this" with you guys!

Eye sockets? Feet pointed in the wrong direction? Missing teeth? Severed arteries? Dislocated knees?

I gotta call my assignor and get more game.......!

But seriously, I hope I never witness anything that would make me want to add to this list.

[stmaryrams]

Fortunately the worst I've seen was a girls JV team in their first game ever at a new High School. First time down the court the point guard hits her head into the back of another girl's head. Broken nose and blood spatter everywhere. This girl was their expected best player and was done for the season.

[fonzzy07]

This was football but happened to me. 7th grade about 5.5 years ago I got my thumb caught in a facemask and both went to the ground. When I was able to pull it out my thumb just flopped back behind onto the top of my hand. For some reason I was in no real pain just some normal pain but after a trip to the Emergency room I found out I had a break and cut the main tendon that runs from the wrist into the thumb in half along with the other tendons. 3 months after surgry and hours of physical therapy, yes they happen to have hand therapists my thumb was strong as heck but I still could not move it. They finnaly found out after sticking the needle that had some kind of mic in it up and done my arm and hand like 25-30 times that the nerves were not shooting right, well after one more surgry and lots more PT I got back full use of my thumb. O yeah did I mention I am one of the only people in the world with a perfectly straight thumb, no more natural curve because of how they had to set things in the first surgury.