• The first round of the NBA playoffs started this past weekend. The biggest story were the major players who were hurt for the rest of the playoffs. The smallest of the injuries were those of the LA Clippers' Caron Butler and the New York Knicks' Iman Shumpert. Butler fractured his left hand during the first game of the Clippers playoffs against the Memphis Grizzlies. Butler is a strong starter for LA, but he will be replaced by Nick Young who has the ability to score at will when he is hot.
• The New York Knicks have had their share of injuries this season, the biggest being the injury of Jeremy Lin. However, when Shumpert tore his ACL and meniscus in one of his knees, it was bigger than it may appear because Shumpert was one of the Knicks best defenders, which is something they’ve lacked in the first two games against their first round opponents, the Wade-Lebron led Miami Heat. As for Lin, he is expected to try to make his return for the Knicks in game 4. At the current pace of this series, that may be too little too late.
• The biggest injury was that of Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose. Rose tore his ACL, all but killing the Bulls championship aspirations and guaranteeing the Heat another final’s appearance. Rose is the Bulls best player and was the MVP of the league last year. Rose is also going to miss the Summer Olympics. Rose would be one of the USA’s best players, and his loss will be huge. That, along with the injury to Dwight Howard, will make the USA’s gold medal defense much more difficult.
Mayweather claims fighting Pac-Man a health risk
• Many people have been calling Floyd Mayweather Jr. a coward for some time now. Whether it was the aggressive, derogatory tone he took toward Larry Merchant, a man around 50 years older than him, the sucker punch knock out of Victor Ortiz, or just his unwillingness to give boxing fans a "Fight of the Century" between himself and Manny Pacquiao, he's not a very popular guy.
• While the undefeated Mayweather had his supporters, his credibility took a major hit this week when he admitted that fighting his chief rival would be a health risk and that he was scared for his ability to make money if he were to be too badly injured against Pacquiao. He also insinuated that Pacquaio, a renaissance man who is an elected official in the Philippines and has also dabbled in music, is taking steroids.
• Mayweather, realizing that his comments would cause some backlash said: "This is how the world is, you get writers saying, 'Floyd is scared'. No, Floyd cares about his family. Floyd is smart. You all know for a fact I'm not scared. You all know that." Keep telling yourself that Floyd. It may be the only way you convince anyone, yourself included, that you're not simply running and hiding from a probable loss.
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