By Lefteris Moutis/ moutis@eurohoops.net
Eurohoops presents the full injury report of the Top16 teams during the whole season. Which are the unluckiest teams and who are the players that missed more than two weeks of action? Read on for details.
A short while before the end of the Top16 Eurohoops decided to conduct a huge survey on the big issue of serious injuries. This season many players picked up serious injuries and missed many games or even the whole season, like Ricky Hickman and Davis Bertance last week. Apart from them, there are more with less serious injuries that missed some crucial games but their teams nevertheless failed because of their absences.
We listed all the Euroleague players who missed more than three games in a row and we present them to you here so you can draw your own conclusions.
We didn’t include the players who missed less than three games in row, even though they were out of action for a long period. For example Nando De Colo and Alex Tyus missed the pre-season and the first two Euroleague games. We must emphasize that only five teams were hurt by only one serious injury during all these months this past season.
Here is the full list with the teams and the injuries that kept players out of the action for more than three Euroleague games.
Olympiacos: Giorgos Printezis (missed the entire regular season)
Vassilis Spanoulis (missed the last three games)
Matt Lojeski (missed five weeks, from the start of November until the start of December in the regular season)
Brent Petway (missed five games since the start of March)
Tremmel Darden (missed three weeks in the start of the season)
Ioannis Papapetrou (missed most of the season until the start of March)
Dimitris Agravanis (missed ten weeks in the start of the Top 16)
Panathinaikos: DeMarcus Nelson (missed nine games, out until the end of December)
Nikos Pappas (missed three weeks in the start of the Top 16 and four weeks in the first round of the Top 16)
Lukas Mavrokefalidis (missed the first three games of the season, missed three games in the first round of the Top 16)
Lefteris Bochoridis (missed four games in the start of the Top 16)
CSKA: Viktor Khryapa (missed most of the season until the start of March)
Milos Teodosic (missed five weeks in the second round of the regular season)
Manu Markoishvili (missed seven games of the regular season, from the end of October until mid December)
Sony Weems (missed three weeks in the first round of the Top 16)
Barcelona: Juan Carlos Navarro (missed three weeks in the regular season, missed six weeks in the Top 16)
Brad Oleson (four weeks in the end of the regular season and four weeks in the first round of the Top 16)
Alex Abrines (missed three weeks in the Top 16)
Fenerbahce: Ricky Hickman (missed five weeks in the first round of the Top 16 and got injured in the 12th week of the Top 16 and will miss the rest of the season)
Kenan Sipahi (missed games since the start of the second round of the Top 16)
Luka Zoric (since the start of March)
Alba Berlin: Jonathan Tabu (missed all the games until the end of January)
Cliff Hammonds (missed four weeks in the second round of the Top 16)
Jamel McLean (missed three weeks in the second round of the Top 16)
Milano: Alessando Gentile (missed three weeks in the mid of the Top 16)
Shawn James (missed the last three games)
Angelo Gigli (missed nine games in the start of the regular season)
Efes: Furkan Korkmaz (missed three games since mid March)
Nenad Krstic (missed the last seven games of the regular season)
Laboral: Davis Bertans (got injured in the 12th week of Top 16 and will miss the rest of the season)
Lamont Hamilton (missed five games in the second round of the regular season)
Maccabi: Guy Pnini (missed the entire season since November)
Sylven Landesberg (missed six weeks at the end of the first round of the Top 16)
Unicaja: Carlos Suarez (missed the first four games of the season)
Kostas Vasileiadis (missed four games in the second round of the Top 16)
Real Madrid: Rudy Fernandez (missed four weeks in the middle of the regular season)
Galatasaray: Martynas Pocius (missed four weeks in the middle of the regular season)
Nizhny: Tarence Kinsey (missed four games at the start of the second round in the Top 16)
Zalgiris: Arturas Gudaitis (missed four weeks in the second round of the Top 16)
Crvena Zvezda: Stefan Jovic (missed three weeks in the second round of the regular season)