An epidemic of severe injuries affecting the spectacle of the NBA

The list of injured players has been unending, and the last to arrive was the star of the eaves of Oklahoma City Thunder, Kevin Durant, who last night suffered a sprained right ankle and left the game against the Dallas Mavericks.

The Detroit Pistons also had to send home base andalusia star Allen Iverson, who suffered back pain and was unable to play against the Orlando Magic.

At the conference, the veteran wing Ben Wallace of the Cleveland Cavaliers, suffered a fractured right fibula after hitting the Chinese pivot Yao Ming, the Houston Rockets and will be down at least six weeks.

But if there is a team that has been hit by injuries this season have been the San Antonio Spurs, who had to start without the escort argentino Manu Ginóbili operated left ankle during the summer.

Ginobili did not recover on time and lost 12 matches to the start of the season. Also fell injured Tony Parker French base, leaving the team without three of the best players in the template.

The wing Tim Duncan had to face with the other players to keep the Spurs winning and competitive and when they were ready for the final run of the season, the ghost of the lesions came back.

Ginobili, this time to exhaustion in the right ankle two weeks has been low, while Duncan with discomfort in his knee on the same side has also been declining in the last three matches by the team.

But there are teams like the Houston Rockets, who were the worst things, because after not being able to play 21 games since the start of the season, the star guard Tracy McGrady will be low for at least half a year after suffering a microfractures in the left knee, which was operated on Tuesday.

McGrady, who along with Ming, the Rockets players of the franchise, leaving the team with a significant drop, especially if they reach the final stage.

The same happens to the Phoenix Suns, who will have to follow their path without the franchise player, the eave Amare Stoudemire, who suffered a partial detachment of the retina of the right eye and will be low for the remainder of the season.

Neither could play the last matches the former Canadian Steve Nash, who suffered a right ankle sprain, leaving as the pivot of the team included Shaquille O’Neal, who last night recalled old times andalusia scoring 45 points.

Los Angeles Lakers also saw its pivot holder Andrew Bynum, who last year was low and half of the season, was hurt again last January 14 in the left knee and is not expected to be recovered until the end of March.

The Utah Jazz also have been affected by the ghost of the lesions with low eaves significant Carlos Boozer, who missed 44 games, based on Deron Williams, Russia’s Andrei Kirilenko and Mehmet Okur pivot, but now everyone has already recovered and are becoming a team with aspirations for all.

The Portland Trail Blazers have seen with concern as the new pivot rookie Greg Oden is on the injured list with right knee problems, after already lost all last season with a micro suffered on the left.

Also at the start of the season could not play the first six games with a foot injury, so the questions that had begun on the present condition of re-emerging Oden.

Although the team has no option as to be in the final stage, the Minnesota Timberwolves lost for the remainder of the season the franchise player, the wing-pivot Al Jefferson, who suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament of the right knee.

There have also been major casualties in the Eastern Conference teams, as the basis of Jameer Nelson of the Orlando Magic, which is low for the remainder of the season after suffering a dislocated right shoulder.

The low came when Nelson was playing his best basketball individual had been selected for the All-Star game for the first time in his career, and the team among the three best in the Eastern Conference.

Its low was covered with the signing of Rafer Alston base, pierced by the Houston Rockets, but the team has noticed that its contribution to where it was in the field.

Nor have they been lucky the Milwaukee Bucks, who lost their franchise player, the guard Michael Redd for the remainder of the season after he suffered a rupture of the cruciate ligament of the left knee on January 24.

Downward Redd, dunk team leader with 21 points, and back problems suffered by the pivot Australian Andrew Bogut, the Bucks have left with little chance of being in the final stage.

Fewer still have the Indiana Pacers who are out of competition at the team’s two best dunk like Danny Granger and Mike Dunleavy.

While Granger may return to competition after it recovers from a sprained right ankle, it is more complicated Dunleavy, who suffers from pain in his right knee and the doctors do not know the exact cause.

While the Boston Celtics, expect the eaves star Kevin Garnett meets the two weeks of rest to recover from the injury he suffered in his right knee and could be ready to help the team to revalidate the title of league champions.