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Not sure how many of you saw the Louisville VS Duke game yesterday evening when Kevin Ware broke his leg. The video is below but be warned it will make you cringe. It is amazing when you read how he encouraged his team to win the game and that he would be alright. An amazing story of courage as the players and the coach around him was crying. Again be warned that the video is very graphic.
Kevin Ware's courage, strength after horrific leg injury inspires Louisville to Final Four
Source: Yahoo Sports
INDIANAPOLIS – Chane Behanan said he cannot remember the last time he cried, but he was crying now.
The Louisville power forward's broad shoulders heaved as he sobbed. Teammate Russ Smith wept openly as well. Assistant coach Wyking Jones bolted off the bench, hands on his head, in horror. Head coach Rick Pitino wiped away tears. Luke Hancock was the only Cardinals player who could bear to be near the awful sight in front of the team's bench, coming to the side of his fallen teammate.
Guard Kevin Ware lay on the hardwood with his right leg mangled. After challenging a 3-point shot by Duke's Tyler Thornton in the first half of the Midwest regional, Ware landed awkwardly and gruesomely broke his tibia. It was a compound fracture, bone protruding far through the skin, which Ware looked down and saw. It was the ugliest thing most anyone in the gym had ever seen in person on a basketball court.
The snap of the leg was so loud that Smith heard it.
"It was really hard for me to pull myself together," Smith said, "because I didn't ever think in a million years I would see something like that."
The sight of the bone was unreal but unmistakable.
"Literally out," Behanan said. "I saw white."
It was that graphic, that awful, and because of the raised court it was at virtual eye level for everyone on the bench. Trainer Fred Hina jumped up to comfort Ware and cover the injury with a towel, then started emergency first aid.
"It is probably one of the more gruesome things you'll witness," said Hina, comparing it to compound leg fractures suffered by football players Joe Theismann and Tim Krumrie.
Yet in the midst of his agony, Ware did the most remarkable thing. Courageously, selflessly, he thought of his teammates.
The stoic, soft-spoken sophomore from outside Atlanta told coach Rick Pitino over and over, "Just win the game. I'm OK. Just win the game."
Pitino urgently called his grief-stricken players over to listen to Ware. As they closed in around him, the coach placed a hand on Ware's right arm. Peyton Siva held Ware's right hand. Wayne Blackshear held his left.
Ware looked up at his teammates and said it five more times.
"Just win the game. I'm OK. Just win the game."
The Cardinals won the game. They dominated Duke in the second half, pulling away for an 85-63 victory and their second-straight Final Four trip.
Read the rest of the story at: Yahoo Sports
Kevin Ware's courage, strength after horrific leg injury inspires Louisville to Final Four
Source: Yahoo Sports
INDIANAPOLIS – Chane Behanan said he cannot remember the last time he cried, but he was crying now.
The Louisville power forward's broad shoulders heaved as he sobbed. Teammate Russ Smith wept openly as well. Assistant coach Wyking Jones bolted off the bench, hands on his head, in horror. Head coach Rick Pitino wiped away tears. Luke Hancock was the only Cardinals player who could bear to be near the awful sight in front of the team's bench, coming to the side of his fallen teammate.
Guard Kevin Ware lay on the hardwood with his right leg mangled. After challenging a 3-point shot by Duke's Tyler Thornton in the first half of the Midwest regional, Ware landed awkwardly and gruesomely broke his tibia. It was a compound fracture, bone protruding far through the skin, which Ware looked down and saw. It was the ugliest thing most anyone in the gym had ever seen in person on a basketball court.
The snap of the leg was so loud that Smith heard it.
"It was really hard for me to pull myself together," Smith said, "because I didn't ever think in a million years I would see something like that."
The sight of the bone was unreal but unmistakable.
"Literally out," Behanan said. "I saw white."
It was that graphic, that awful, and because of the raised court it was at virtual eye level for everyone on the bench. Trainer Fred Hina jumped up to comfort Ware and cover the injury with a towel, then started emergency first aid.
"It is probably one of the more gruesome things you'll witness," said Hina, comparing it to compound leg fractures suffered by football players Joe Theismann and Tim Krumrie.
Yet in the midst of his agony, Ware did the most remarkable thing. Courageously, selflessly, he thought of his teammates.
The stoic, soft-spoken sophomore from outside Atlanta told coach Rick Pitino over and over, "Just win the game. I'm OK. Just win the game."
Pitino urgently called his grief-stricken players over to listen to Ware. As they closed in around him, the coach placed a hand on Ware's right arm. Peyton Siva held Ware's right hand. Wayne Blackshear held his left.
Ware looked up at his teammates and said it five more times.
"Just win the game. I'm OK. Just win the game."
The Cardinals won the game. They dominated Duke in the second half, pulling away for an 85-63 victory and their second-straight Final Four trip.
Read the rest of the story at: Yahoo Sports
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