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Rodney Rogers paralyzed
« on: December 04, 2008, 01:25:44 PM »
This is part one of the ex NBAer bad news day.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3744237
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Re: Rodney Rogers paralyzed
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2008, 01:32:42 PM »
This is part one of the ex NBAer bad news day.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3744237

I read about it as well but the article was titled "Former NBA Star", no offense but I didn't think he was a star.  This story was on the heels of the Tisdale news that has been widely covered.
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Re: Rodney Rogers paralyzed
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2008, 01:35:55 PM »
Widely covered? Dang, then I wasted the next post?  :-\

Yeah, Rogers had some solid years but definitley not a star.  In fact he probably underachieved some years because he didn't always keep his weight down.
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Re: Rodney Rogers paralyzed
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2008, 02:04:23 PM »
Widely covered? Dang, then I wasted the next post?  :-\

Yeah, Rogers had some solid years but definitley not a star.  In fact he probably underachieved some years because he didn't always keep his weight down.

I saw two TV specials about him last week and he was on the front page of ESPN.com.
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Re: Rodney Rogers paralyzed
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2008, 02:20:40 PM »
Aah. I don't currently have cable so I missed out on the TV part of it.
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Re: Rodney Rogers paralyzed
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2008, 02:22:28 PM »
for what it's worth, I hadn't heard of either.  Thanks for the heads up.

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Re: Rodney Rogers paralyzed
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2008, 02:44:59 PM »
Aah. I don't currently have cable so I missed out on the TV part of it.

They played one special before the Lakers game on the local TV station then I saw it again on ESPN durring one the ESPN basketball games.
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