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Thursday, February 21, 2008
It’s not broken
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
SACRAMENTO - Acie Law IV said it before I could even ask.
“It’s not broken,” he said, holding up his right wrist, which was stuffed into a black brace like one of those chili dogs from the Varsity stuffed in a bun. “It was killing me last night, though. I could barely sleep. But I’m going to be fine. I’ll rest and then see how I feel [Friday] and kind of go from there.”
Law gave the Hawks a major scare Wednesday night when he hit the floor hard on a drive to the basket and came up clutching his wrist. He played a few more minutes, and even made plays, before giving way to Mike Bibby (whose bruised heel kept him on the sideline at practice Thursday, too) and heading to the locker room to let the doctors take a look.
But he insists that he will play again on this trip, which still has pit stops at Golden State (Friday), Utah (Saturday) and San Antonio (Monday).
How the Hawks are supposed to get by during this stretch with just one point guard is a mystery to me. Hawks coach Mike Woodson surveyed the bodies on the practice floor Thursday and probably wondered the same thing.
And while we were there, GMs around the league were busy working the phone lines trying to squeeze every last drop they could out of each other before the league’s trade deadline.
The Hawks were still working the phones as well. There were some rumblings that they might be involved in another minor deal, but I’ve had no confirmation that they were able to get it done. So stay tuned and I’ll update you later.
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Don’t look now …
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
SACRAMENTO - When Acie Law IV walked across the floor in street clothes at the end of the Hawks’ 119-107 loss to the Kings, I wasn’t sure what to make of it.
He’d already scooted off to the locker room after injuring his right wrist late in the third quarter. But I figured he might have just tweaked it and needed a pack of ice or something.
It turns out things could be much dire than that. Law was headed off-site to get an MRI exam on that wrist, the same one that cost him time earlier this season and the same one that he’s had trouble with throughout his career (fearless as he is going to the basket, Law hasn’t figured out a way to brace himself on his falls back to earth and seems to always use that hand).
Hawks coach Mike Woodson insisted that anything said before the results are delivered Thursday afternoon would be nothing but speculation.
And with Mike Bibby nursing a bad heel, Speedy Claxton in Atlanta with a surgically repaired knee and now Law with the wrist, the Hawks’ point guard situation is back in the crosshairs - this four days after the trade for Bibby was supposed to solve all these problems.
“We’ve just got to wait and see,” Woodson said when I asked him if they were worried that Law broke his wrist. “It could be. It’s a possibility We’ll just have to see how the results come out.”
If that’s the case, the Hawks will have to scramble to find depth at the position.
“We don’t know, we’re going to have to go out and find someone, maybe in the D-League,” Woodson said, again playing the speculation game. “Right now we just don’t know. We’re just speculating until the results come out.”
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