NBA / Jan 29, 2009 / 4:54 pm
Desmond Mason out for the season
From last night’s Thunder/Grizzlies game, fast-forward to about the 1:05 mark and you’ll see Desmond Mason suffer what has been diagnosed as a hyperextension of his right knee, which the team announced will put him out for the reason of the season. For a team that is just figuring itself out and winning some games, this is a big blow to them. Mason had been averaging 7.5 points off the bench.
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January 29th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
control says:
Didn’t even know he was still in the league…
Woman announcers are really fucking annoying, why they around so much?
January 29th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Austin Burton says:
I’m pretty sure the Thunder picked up Mason solely for the fact that he’s from Oklahoma and he went to OK State, and is therefore hugely popular with their fans. But he hasn’t been bad this season.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
LakeShow84 says:
For reals..
Desmond still around?? Sux he hurt his knee though.. Any knee injury late in your career is rough..
January 29th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
AY says:
it’s just too bad. he was drafted by the sonics and was one of the more popular players before getting traded for ray allen, another reason why they brought him back. He was so superbly athletic in the couple of years following his dunk contest win that whenever i watched him, it literally looked like he was floating on air. i always liked him, but he doesn’t have much basketball iq and every coach insists on playing him as a SF (he’s shorter than he looks, 6’4 or something). The Sonics are 9-11 this year when he starts at SG to help move durant to SF, so don’t say he doesn’t make a difference. he’s 31 so this is probably the last we’re going to hear from him.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Austin Burton says:
@AY — Do you remember when Sonics fans were LIVID that we traded Mason as part of the Ray Allen/Gary Payton deal? I swear at the time a lot of fans would have chosen to keep Mason over Rashard.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
AY says:
AB, you won’t get any sympathy from me, i’m pretty low on rashard lewis. he made what, 50 million from the sonics? he’s arguably the 4th most important player on the magic, behind howard, turkey-glue and jameer, while getting paid the most. Desmond was two years older than rashard though, it was hard to justify that he would develop into a better player. i was livid at the trade, mostly because they got rid of payton and succeeded him with brent barry as the PG; brent barry! gp deserved better.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Austin Burton says:
@AY — I wasn’t a huge Rashard fan either, but he was a steal considering where we got him in the Draft and (I have to keep stressing this) would have been SICK if we’d gone to a D’Antoni-type style of play. I was still in college at the time of the GP trade and wasn’t as much into following the business/salary cap end of the NBA, but refresh my memory: Did we absolutely have to trade GP in the first place?
January 29th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
iLL Mago says:
Russell Westbrook with the dunk….2nd quarter, Rudy Gay With the 3…Kevin Durant with the lay-in…halftime…Russell Westbrook dunks again
TALK BETWEEN THE PAUSES YOU STUPID BITCH!!! I CAN READ THE NAME AND NUMBERS FROM THEIR JERSEYS AND SEE WHAT THEY’RE DOING. YOUR ANNOYING VOICE DOESN’T HELP EITHER. DIME, call stern and get her ass canned
January 29th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
AY says:
gary payton was a huge expiring contract that year, i think ~12 mil, and basically it was a trade at the deadline between ray allen and desmond mason, with gary payton filling in the salary difference. Neither team got him the next year, him and karl malone signed with the lakers (that year). The sonics just didn’t want him anymore and they squeezed the last ounce of respect out of him. And it was obvious the bucks just wanted to save money, they already had sam cassell and mike redd, and they started payton with cassell for the rest of the year and then gave keith van horn the free agent 15 mil or something. Get rid of ray allen and gary payton to break the bank on keith van horn, it was classic bucks.
So to answer your question, yes, the sonics absolutely had to trade him because he wouldn’t have been an expiring contract the next year.
January 30th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Kermit The Washington says:
Yo, the look on Dez’s face when he landed…he had that look like he was expecting no leg to be there. That was nasty.
January 31st, 2009 at 4:37 am
Scoo-B says:
Desmond Mason hyperextends his LEFT (??) knee… Can’t believe that woman doesn’t even know where’s her left and where’s her right…