Red's Army[/caption]Basketball can be a dangerous game, and players often get injured during the course of their careers. The worst injuries to have been suffered on the basketball court, usually involve a player falling hard, or even tripping, but a couple of these are things which no one could have predicted.
Here are the top five worst basketball injuries of all-time.
5. Marquis Daniels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fLPTJJV3QYg
Marquis bruised his spinal cord when he took another player’s forearm to his neck. After he fell motionless to the floor, watching fans were worried that the player’s injuries were life-threatening. But Daniels only ended up missing about a month of play before returning.
4. Derrick Roland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ds0CrlLyCNw
Roland broke both the tibia and fibula in his right leg during a game with his team, the Texas A&M Aggies, and need to undergo immediate surgery to have a rod inserted in his leg. Despite the seriousness of his injury, he returned to play in South America.
3. Tony Allen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Le8rMnL56w8
Allen landed badly after trying to make a shot and tore two ligaments in his knee, needing reconstructive surgery. That meant he was out of play for the rest of the NBA season. He eventually returned and now plays for the Memphis Grizzlies.
2. Allan Ray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=D3E21Z5xqro
During a Big East tournament, Ray was accidentally poked in the eye. It seemed as though Ray’s eye had actually come out of the socket, but in fact his eyelid had merely been forced behind the eye, and he sustained no more than soft tissue damage.
1. Shaun Livingston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MHFs4a-Bb-c
In 2007, Livingston dislocated his left kneecap, tearing three ligaments in the process, when he landed badly after attempting a shot. He ended up needing to spend over a year in rehab, but eventually came back to the NBA before signing to the Milwaukee Bucks.
