Oklahoma City
Thunder guard, Victor Oladipo could not continue the Celtics game, which ended
96-99 in favour of OKC after he landed on his back and neck area.
He was later ruled
out with a sprained right wrist due to the bad fall.
Oladipo went to
contest a corner 3 by Jonas Jerebko, but a pump-fake by the Celtics man,
flipped the guard onto his back as his foot caught Jerebko in the shoulder.
“I felt the thump
with my feet. The floor kind of shook,” Thunder coach Billy Donovan said. “I
couldn’t tell if it was his back or if he landed on his head. My concern was if
he was down there breathing. Any time a player is down like that you’re worried
because you just don’t know.”
Oladipo was down for
a dew minutes by the Thunder bench, before making it to the locker room on his
own. He underwent concussion protocol and was cleared in that regard. He also
had an X-ray, and the results came back negative.
“I was just hoping
he was OK, man,” Russell Westbrook said. “Just got to the bench and started
praying for him. That’s the first thing I did. His health, besides anything
else, is more important. I’m happy he’s all right and hopefully he’ll be able
to move forward for next game.”
“I checked on him
and he said he was feeling better,” Donovan said, “but I don’t know if he knows
what the prognosis is or what he has, but he seemed like he was doing OK right
now.”
Oladipo, 24, is the
Thunder’s second-leading scorer, averaging 16.8 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2.9
assists in 23 games this season.
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