weirdest basketball injury ever?

[bags27]

Definitely not for the squeamish:

Akil Mitchell describes eyeball popping out during basketball game - BBC News

spoiler alert: a happy ending

 

[meyers7]

Wow, that's crazy.

Had a friend in 3rd grade who had a glass eye. I was always afraid of tackling him, I thought he'd turn over and his eye would be gone. Always tried to have him on MY team. He did on occasion though take it out himself and scare the girls. That I didn't have a problem with.

 

[Kaizen]

How many eyeballs does he have? LOL

 

[JavaMan]

Man, that must have been scary! Glad he's doing okay.

Maybe we need an eyeball emoji on the Boneyard.

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[Earls & Kings]

That happened in a men's game years ago...since I was watching it must have been a UConn opponent. I'm guessing it was Nova. I'll see if Ican find it.

 

[Earls & Kings]

Oops, it wasn't against us. Alan Ray of Nova had his eye pop out by a hit from Karl Krauser of Pitt in a Big East tournament game.

 

[triaddukefan]

 

[JordyG]

An all new way of explaining his court vision.

 

[BroadwayVa]

Wow, that's crazy.

Had a friend in 3rd grade who had a glass eye. I was always afraid of tackling him, I thought he'd turn over and his eye would be gone. Always tried to have him on MY team. He did on occasion though take it out himself and scare the girls. That I didn't have a problem with.

I bet he had lots of dates with girls!! Gee with teeth you can get a mouth protector---how do you protect, in basketball, with an eye coming out??? Glass or otherwise/?? Wear a band over the eyes??

 

[bags27]

I bet he had lots of dates with girls!! Gee with teeth you can get a mouth protector---how do you protect, in basketball, with an eye coming out??? Glass or otherwise/?? Wear a band over the eyes??

 

[BroadwayVa]

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My nephew--lost his eye to Cancer at age 2 and had to get an age dependent size, ie. at 10 it was larger.
He too wore goggles --not that I ever was aware it came out--he never chased my girls around with his eye--that they told me about--smart dads know they don't tell everything that happens!!

 

[CL82]

"With the palm of my hand I felt my eyeball on the side of my face," . "I could still see out of the eye."

Me, when I read that:

 

[easttexastrash]

I hope he had good hand-eye coordination. I guess that's one way to improve your peripheral vision.

 

[tomcat]

I had a cousin who had an eyeball pop out when she sneezed once. We asked what she did, and she said, "Put it back in." No muss, no fuss.

 

[bags27]

I had a cousin who had an eyeball pop out when she sneezed once. We asked what she did, and she said, "Put it back in." No muss, no fuss.

Ya think both eyeballs would have popped out if she had sneezed twice? (Beware the perils of misplaced modifiers!)

 

[tomcat]

Yup. When once she sneezed, or something like that.