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Throwback Thursday: Kobe’s 81-pt game

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Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers star shooting guard, injured his right shoulder in the Wednesday night Lakers loss to the New Orleans Pelicans. An early MRI exam showed a tear of the rotator cuff. His return to Los Angeles will be followed by an examination by team doctors and an update on his condition will be given.

According to ESPNLA, in true Kobe fashion, he isn’t too worried about the injury saying, “I’ve played on a torn labrum before, I’m not too concerned about it.”

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Kobe Bryant, now 36, has had many, many successful years  in his basketball career. On this day, January 22, eight years ago, Bryant scored an amazing 81 points in the 122-104 victory over the Toronto Raptors. It is the second-most points scored in one game in NBA history, only Wilt Chamberlain (100) has scored more.

Check out the NBA.com video of Kobe’s every shot during that record breaking game.

I am dedicating this blog to my Kobe-loving man, who so kindly asked me to post about his favorite basketball player.

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Cruz Injured in Week 6; Eagles head coach visits him in the hospital

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On October 12, 2014, the New York Giants traveled to Lincoln Financial Field to take on the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday Night Football. The Giants suffered a major loss on the scoreboard, not scoring one single point.

Another loss the Giants suffered was an injury to one of their top receivers, Victor Cruz. If you were watching the game, it was hard for your heart not to break a little seeing the outstanding Cruz being carted off the field, sobbing. What is mind boggling is how the injury happened, which is still somewhat of a mystery. Cruz attempted to make a catch in the end zone but, he wasn’t tackled, he didn’t twist his knee but, he came down and was grabbing his knee. Later on in the game, we found out that he suffered a patellar tendon injury. A patellar tendon injury is a very rare injury, according to philly.com, a 2011 study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine indicted that only 21 isolated patellar tendon ruptures occurred between 1994-2004. The study did show some promising news for Cruz, apparently 80% of those injured return to play in the NFL.

The next day, Philadelphia Eagles head coach, Chip Kelly, visited the injured Victor Cruz at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia before he was moved to a hospital in Manhattan. Needless to say, the visit touched Cruz, “It was amazing, overwhelming almost, to see how many people reached out,” Cruz said, according to an article on nj.com.

Cruz underwent surgery and will be sidelined for 4-8 months.