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islesfan
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10/6/2007  2:57 AM
Monta Ellis was immobilized following collision in practice Friday night. Supposedly he was driving to the basket between 2 players and went down. There was no major collision or apparent head injury and nobody thought anything of it until he didn't get up. He was down for close to 30 minutes and couldn't move his extremities. They eventually took him away in an ambulance and he appeared to be in good spirits.

That's awful. I really hope he's ok. My prayers go out to him.
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10/6/2007  3:12 AM
That sucks, hopefully he's okay
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10/6/2007  3:16 AM
Monta Ellis immobilized at Warriors practice
Ric Bucher ESPN.com


Golden State Warriors guard Monta Ellis was immobilized and carted off the court after he was injured in a collision during training-camp practice Friday night.

The 21-year-old Ellis was trying to split a double team on a pick-and-roll when he went down. Ellis lay face down, prone for more than 25 minutes.

He has been taken to Castle Medical Center in Kailua, which is about 40 minutes from the BYU-Hawaii campus where the Warriors are holding camp.

The team's trainer was able to speak to Ellis, so it appears he is conscious, but there were no noticeable responses to tests for motion, particularly from the shoulders down.

Ellis was strapped onto a board to get him on a stretcher to be taken off the court.

Ellis won the Most Improved Player award in April for his transformation from an unsung Mississippi high schooler to a speedy scoring threat for the improving Warriors.

Ellis edged Sacramento's Kevin Martin by three points in the closest voting in the award's history, earning 47 first-place votes and 352 points from a media panel. Martin, the Kings' high-scoring guard, got 44 first-place votes and 349 points.

Ellis averaged 16.5 points, 4.1 assists and 3.2 rebounds this season with new coach Don Nelson and the revitalized Warriors, who returned to the playoffs after a 12-year absence.

The second-round pick's improvement on his 6.8-point scoring average in his rookie season was the NBA's largest increase this year, and he caught the nation's attention with a dunk-filled 28-point performance in the Rookie Challenge during All-Star weekend.
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10/6/2007  5:40 AM
Sounds like he might have a spinal injury. Those freak accidents are always scary when they happen. Can happen to anyone, even just playing some pick-up on a basketball court. One moment your in good health, the next your paralyzed the rest of your life.
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10/6/2007  7:01 AM
It's always inspiring to see a young player with a good attitude who's drafted late beat the odds and make it in the nba. I hope things work out well for him.
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10/6/2007  9:45 AM
I heard he left the hospital under his own power, hopefully that's true.
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10/6/2007  12:58 PM
Ellis is up "walking and laughing," a Warriors official told the San Francisco Chronicle.

As a precautionary measure, Ellis is not likely to play in either exhibition against the Lakers this week.
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10/6/2007  3:40 PM
Hope he's ok.
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10/7/2007  6:38 AM
Posted by Solace:

Hope he's ok.

I just checked a Warriors message board. He's doing well. He'll just have to miss the first two pre-season games.
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10/7/2007  10:59 AM
That's great news.

I really hope they figure out what happened exactly. Maybe it was just a stinger.
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