Ben Gordon may be hurt

[LarBrd33]

ESPN reports that Gordon is OK :

Bulls guard Ben Gordon is day to day with a hamstring strain he suffered in the first half of Sunday's double-overtime victory over the Boston Celtics in Chicago.

An MRI on Monday revealed nothing unexpected for Gordon, who maintained several times after the game he would be ready to play in Tuesday's Game 5 in Boston.

Thank heavens

[celticinorlando]

didnt KG have a knee strain and the MRI was negative??

[RAcker]

didnt KG have a knee strain and the MRI was negative??

...and isn't it funny how negative is really a positive result?

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Not only that he expected the contact, he initiated it by sticking his legs out awkwardly into BBD which caused his fall to the ground to be as bad as it was.  BBD ran by with his hand straight up trying to just bother the shot and avoid contact.

yup, that was not a foul at all. the minor contact was all initiated by gordon. i know people don't want to blame the refs, but that was yet another obvious bad call. meanwhile, pierce got hammered again and again, and got nothing. honestly, if they start calling the game the same way in boston, the c's better get some hard fouls in...might as well make them count, if they're calling touch fouls on you.

[guava_wrench]

Not only that he expected the contact, he initiated it by sticking his legs out awkwardly into BBD which caused his fall to the ground to be as bad as it was.  BBD ran by with his hand straight up trying to just bother the shot and avoid contact.

yup, that was not a foul at all. the minor contact was all initiated by gordon. i know people don't want to blame the refs, but that was yet another obvious bad call. meanwhile, pierce got hammered again and again, and got nothing. honestly, if they start calling the game the same way in boston, the c's better get some hard fouls in...might as well make them count, if they're calling touch fouls on you.

The guard seemed to get better treatment by the refs. Rondo could get calls at will by flopping yesterday anytime Miller was close to him. Ben Gordon got the call with his extended knee hitting BBD. It seems the refs only wanted to call when they were forced to by players hitting the floor hard.

Btw, we can acknowledge bad calls without blaming refs. Blaming occurs when there are homers like Heinson who only see the bad calls in one direction, causing him to wrongly concluded that we are at a disadvantage every game. Perhaps what is worse about Tommy is his knee-jerk responses to calls before they are eventually proven correct by replay.