Basketball player Kevin Ware recovering after horrific leg injury
Published: 2013 April 01 10:01:48 (5097 Views)
Louisville's Kevin Ware, landed awkwardly after lunging to block the three-point attempt in the first half and broke his leg.
Ware was writhing in agony in front of the Louisville bench and trainers rushed to cover the leg with a towel before placing Ware on a backboard and lifting him onto a stretcher.
Louisville coach Rick Pitino and his top-seeded Cardinals desperately wanted to experience the full joy of their dominant 85-63 victory over second-seeded Duke Sunday in the NCAA Midwest Region final at Lucas Oil Stadium.
But even as the Cardinals (33-5) put on their championship caps after dispatching college basketball's biggest brand name, their minds were elsewhere.
They were thinking about their teammate, 6-2 sophomore guard Kevin Ware, who was lying in a bed in nearby Methodist Hospital after suffering a gruesome leg injury midway through the game.
"The bone broke in two spots,'' Pitino said. "It's sticking six inches out of the leg and he's yelling, 'I'll be fine. Win the game. Win the game.' I've never seen anything like that before in my life.''
"We wanted to do this for Kevin," a somber Pitino said. "We're all choked up. We wanted to win this for him. We wanted to get back to Atlanta (site of the Final Four). Every timeout, all we kept saying in the huddle was, 'Bring Kevin Home.'
One of Ware's teammates and closest friends, Chane Behanan, spoke with Ware at halftime. "He said, 'Don't worry about me, I'm good, I'll have my surgery tonight,'" Behanan said. "'Go win it for me.'"
Ware, who was born in the Bronx and went to Rockdale County High School in Atlanta, broke his lower right leg in two places with 6:33 left in the first half.
He was recovering Sunday night following successful surgery.
School officials said the sophomore had the bone reset and a rod inserted into his right tibia.
- NYDailyNews
Ware was writhing in agony in front of the Louisville bench and trainers rushed to cover the leg with a towel before placing Ware on a backboard and lifting him onto a stretcher.
Louisville coach Rick Pitino and his top-seeded Cardinals desperately wanted to experience the full joy of their dominant 85-63 victory over second-seeded Duke Sunday in the NCAA Midwest Region final at Lucas Oil Stadium.
But even as the Cardinals (33-5) put on their championship caps after dispatching college basketball's biggest brand name, their minds were elsewhere.
They were thinking about their teammate, 6-2 sophomore guard Kevin Ware, who was lying in a bed in nearby Methodist Hospital after suffering a gruesome leg injury midway through the game.
"The bone broke in two spots,'' Pitino said. "It's sticking six inches out of the leg and he's yelling, 'I'll be fine. Win the game. Win the game.' I've never seen anything like that before in my life.''
"We wanted to do this for Kevin," a somber Pitino said. "We're all choked up. We wanted to win this for him. We wanted to get back to Atlanta (site of the Final Four). Every timeout, all we kept saying in the huddle was, 'Bring Kevin Home.'
One of Ware's teammates and closest friends, Chane Behanan, spoke with Ware at halftime. "He said, 'Don't worry about me, I'm good, I'll have my surgery tonight,'" Behanan said. "'Go win it for me.'"
Ware, who was born in the Bronx and went to Rockdale County High School in Atlanta, broke his lower right leg in two places with 6:33 left in the first half.
He was recovering Sunday night following successful surgery.
School officials said the sophomore had the bone reset and a rod inserted into his right tibia.
- NYDailyNews
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