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Weird Injuries

Dru Smith slipping

Heat guard out for season with ACL injury after unfortunate in-game slip

Miami Heat guard Dru Smith suffered some absolutely rotten luck during Wednesday’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Smith was injured in the second quarter of the contest while attempting to close out on a Max Strus corner three-point …

David Njoku in pads

David Njoku may miss Week 4 game due to bizarre accident

Cleveland Browns tight end David Njoku may miss the team’s Week 4 game for a bizarre reason. The Browns on Saturday added Njoku to the injury report and listed him as questionable “after sustaining burn injuries to his face and arm during …

Luis Robert in his White Sox uniform

White Sox slugger suffered apparent injury during Home Run Derby

Luis Robert put on a show during Monday night’s Home Run Derby, but it appears to have come at a cost. The Chicago White Sox announced on Tuesday that Robert is sitting out of the MLB All-Star Game for precautionary reasons. He felt tightness …

Pete Fairbanks black eye

Rays’ Pete Fairbanks got a black eye from dunking on his son

Tampa Bay Rays reliever Pete Fairbanks is sporting a pretty nasty black eye, but the explanation for the injury is a hilarious one. Fairbanks revealed that he got the injury while slam dunking on his 3-year-old son in a swimming pool, and had a great …

Josh Donaldson taking batting practice

Josh Donaldson suffers setback due to new weird injury

New York Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson will have his injury return delayed thanks to another injury, this one of the unusual variety. Donaldson has only played five games this season due to a hamstring injury, but the veteran was thought to be …

Anthony DeSclafani delivers a pitch

Anthony DeSclafani dealing with injury from unfortunate off-field incident

San Francisco Giants pitcher Anthony DeSclafani exited his start against the Arizona Diamondbacks earlier than expected on Saturday, and apparently a piano bench was to blame. DeSclafani threw just 77 pitches while allowing five hits and three earned …

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts looking on

Dodgers pitcher goes on IL after suffering bizarre injury in warmups

The Los Angeles Dodgers can now add strange injuries to their list of woes to begin the 2023 season. Dodgers right-hander Michael Grove, who got the start on Thursday against the Chicago Cubs, was forced to exit early with a groin strain. Grove …

Kevin Durant in street clothes

Video emerges of Kevin Durant’s bizarre warmup injury

Fans who came to watch Kevin Durant play on Wednesday got a rather unpleasant surprise. Durant was a late scratch for the Phoenix Suns’ game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Shams Charania of The Athletic reported that Durant injured his left …

Joe Musgrove with his hat backwards

Padres All-Star suffers unusual injury in weight room mishap

One San Diego Padres player suffered an unfortunate (and almost cartoonish) injury this week. The Padres revealed on Tuesday that starting pitcher Joe Musgrove broke his left big toe in a weight room accident on Monday. Musgrove suffered the injury …

Derrick White in his Celtics uniform

Celtics’ Derrick White dealing with unusual ear injury

Derrick White has an injury that you probably won’t see (or rather, hear about) every day. In the second quarter of Tuesday’s loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, the Boston Celtics guard White took a shot to the left ear during a collision with …

Marcus Smart dribbles the ball

Marcus Smart has concerning revelation about 2018 glass-punching injury

Marcus Smart is making a troubling revelation about his infamous injury from five years ago. The Boston Celtics guard Smart told reporters in a recent interview that he still plays with some glass in his hand as a result of the 2018 incident where he …

Joe Mazzulla on the sideline

Unusual reason for Joe Mazzulla’s absence from Celtics revealed

It turns out that the players are not the only ones who can be sidelined with strange injuries. Boston Celtics interim coach Joe Mazzulla has not been with the team for the last two games. He missed Tuesday’s game against the Houston Rockets …

Duncan Robinson in his Heat uniform

Duncan Robinson suffers bizarre hand injury during shootaround

The Miami Heat will be without guard Duncan Robinson for Friday’s game over a bizarre injury he suffered during shootaround. According to Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, Robinson suffered a hand injury when his finger got caught in a …

Xavier McKinney addressing the media

Giants safety suffered strange injury during bye week

New York Giants safety Xavier McKinney seems to have had a little too much fun during the team’s bye week. McKinney revealed in a post to his Twitter page on Monday that he suffered a hand injury while riding an ATV in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico …

Myles Turner at a press conference

Myles Turner misses Pacers’ season opener after bizarre injury in warmups

The Indiana Pacers’ season is starting off on the wrong foot … literally. Pacers center Myles Turner was a late scratch for Wednesday’s season opener against the Washington Wizards after injuring his left ankle in pregame warmups. …

David Robertson throwing a pitch

David Robertson out for NLDS after suffering bizarre injury

Philadelphia Phillies reliever David Robertson will not pitch in the NLDS thanks to a strange injury he suffered during the second and deciding game of the NL Wild Card Series. Robertson suffered a right calf strain while jumping in the air to …

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