Vince Carter was about to deliver one of those "don't-you-wish-I-was-still-here" games Friday night in New Jersey, when he fell to the floor clutching his left ankle midway in the second quarter.
Carter, traded by the Nets to the Orlando Magic this summer, had 16 points in his first 15 minutes before he left with a sprained ankle. X-rays were negative and he told reporters that "hopefully,'' he could play Sunday in Toronto.
His mother, who was there, described it to the Orlando Sentinel as a "mild sprain.'' It happened on a drive to the basket when he stepped awkwardly on the foot of New Jersey guard Devin Harris.
Coach Stan Van Gundy, in his post-game press conference, told reporters there was considerable swelling, but did not guess how long it would keep Carter on the sideline. After sitting on the bench for a brief time, Carter limped to the locker room and never returned.
"I was ready to sit back and enjoy one of those great shows because he was rolling,'' Van Gundy said. "It's too bad. We had to find another way to win.''
Carter had hit six of his eight shots. He opened the game against his former team with an emphatic dunk when he blew past Nets guard Courtney Lee, who was sent from Orlando to New Jersey in the trade of Carter.
The Magic, with the deepest team in franchise history, had no problem dominating the Nets, even without Carter, the eight-time All-Star. The game just proved how good the Magic are.
Dwight Howard did as he pleased with 20 points and 22 rebounds – the 24th 20-20 game of his career. The Magic got a big game from second-year forward Ryan Anderson, who came with Carter from New Jersey in the trade that cost the Magic, Lee, Rafer Alston and Tony Battie.
Anderson, who is starting in place of Rashard Lewis (serving a 10-game NBA suspension), had 16 points for the second consecutive game.
His mother, who was there, described it to the Orlando Sentinel as a "mild sprain.'' It happened on a drive to the basket when he stepped awkwardly on the foot of New Jersey guard Devin Harris.
Coach Stan Van Gundy, in his post-game press conference, told reporters there was considerable swelling, but did not guess how long it would keep Carter on the sideline. After sitting on the bench for a brief time, Carter limped to the locker room and never returned.
"I was ready to sit back and enjoy one of those great shows because he was rolling,'' Van Gundy said. "It's too bad. We had to find another way to win.''
Carter had hit six of his eight shots. He opened the game against his former team with an emphatic dunk when he blew past Nets' guard Courtney Lee, who was sent from Orlando to New Jersey in the trade of Carter.
The Magic, with the deepest team in franchise history, had no problem dominating the Nets, even without Carter, their eight-time All-Star. The game just proved how good the Magic are.
Dwight Howard did as he pleased with 20 points and 22 rebounds – the 24th 20-20 game of his career. The Magic got a big game from second-year forward Ryan Anderson, who came with Carter from New Jersey in the trade that cost the Magic Lee, Rafer Alston and Tony Battie.
Anderson, who is starting in place of Rashard Lewis (a 10-game NBA suspension) had 16 points for the second consecutive game.
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Hopefully, Bass will start in Carter`s place, though Redick has been playing reasonably well, and maybe Carter will replace Nelson in the starting line up when he returns, though Williams has also been playing reasonably well. Pietrus is a guard, not a forward. He could be the one Carter replaces in the starting line up, not Bass, when Carter returns. Until Lewis comes back, I think Howard (obviously) and Anderson should have locks on starting jobs, and maybe even after Lewis returns, perhaps he join them both up front. Shaq, in Cleveland, looks like Red Kryptonite in the form of Coach Kissy Face, Princess Floppy Hair, and, um, King James, have taken away Super-Man`s shot attempts, and sent them south to Captain Marvel, who thinks he is Superman. Actually, Captain Marvel, Fawcett Comics, out sold Super-Man, until the courts shut him down for being better than the original, so Dwight maybe should claim he is better than the original, like Captain Marvel was, before he became Shazzam, with Marvel comics having claimed the named Captain Marvel. Why did the Cavaliers "fire" Coach Brown, who did a decent job in preseason, and "replace" him with Coach Brown, who starts Varajao instead of Hickson, and gives him more shot attempts down low than Super-Man? This new head coach can`t hold a candle to the preseason head coach Cleveland had. They ought to sign the exhibition season head coach back! At least the Magic kept theirs.
Tim- You repeated your text. But he’ll be fine, this team is ridiculously deep shouldn’t miss a beat.
The way Ms Carter was writhing and moaning while laying on the floor you would have thought every bone in his body was broken. What a woman!!
IT'S AN ANKLE SPRAIN!!!
Lol. Are you serious? Have you ever TWISTED your ankle? That hurts enough. The man's a man and walked off on his own. Not to mention he was en route to scoring over 50 points if he kept up that pace.
Haters will be haters.
Magic will keep rolling.
i think the magic are so powerful and athletic, they could win 70 wins and wish shaq was with la instead of the cleveland favaliers and destroy them.