D'Oh!
by Stop-n-Pop on Apr 27, 2010 8:00 AM CDT
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Seimone Augustus was absent from the first Lynx practice on Sunday at Lifetime Fitness at Target Center. Not a good sign.
Candice Wiggins, another veteran guard, was sitting on the base of one basketball stanchion. She was in uniform and shot free throws, but otherwise just watched. Oh-oh.
On a day that should have been filled with hope and excitement as first-year coach Cheryl Reeve ran the team through drills, there was startling Lynx news instead.
Both Augustus and Wiggins, two of the team's best players, probably will miss all three weeks of training camp and the early part of the season at least.
Augustus underwent surgery Saturday at an undisclosed metro-area hospital to remove increasingly painful fibroids from her abdomen. Fibroids are the most common benign tumors for females.
Lynx officials expect Augustus to be out longer than Wiggins, who will have arthroscopic surgery on her right knee Tuesday. A small tear of the meniscus, revealed in a magnetic resonance imaging scan Saturday, will be repaired. Wiggins, who had been playing overseas in Greece, is expected to miss four weeks.
Here's hoping for the best and that both players have a full and speedy recovery.
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Get ’em done.
Why are basketball training camps only a few weeks long? Wouldn’t a young team benefit from more?
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One of the many* benefits of being a Wolves fan is not having to worry about good players going down with injury
"Pinch-bunters don't have a ton of value, even with the Twins"
by Steven Ellingson on Apr 27, 2010 5:01 PM CDT reply actions
I'm guessing 'twas a joke my friend
implying that there are no good players on the wolves
From the only TRUE North division
by thewild_viking_twins on Apr 27, 2010 5:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Hope they get well soon
….but maybe not too soon if you know what I mean.
Pretty much the entire WNBA is buzzing about how good the Lynx might be this year and I would love another ring in Phoenix so…you know. Best of luck, but not too much luck.
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yeah...
..they definitely have the potential to be a monster team.
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monster team yes
and i hope that with the gamble of this years draft pics we don’t end up with the #2 pick. Next year we need the #1 again to pick up the best player in the country from UCONN!
by GHACAN BLACKSTAR on Apr 28, 2010 1:10 PM CDT up reply actions
After watching "Love & Basketball" last night
one of the most underrated sports movies in my opinion, I have a renewed interest in going to some WNBA games this season. It could be an exciting year for the Lynx.
Now, if I could only get Sanaa Lathan to return my phone calls…
i’ve been trying for years… she doesnt return mine either.
by GHACAN BLACKSTAR on Apr 28, 2010 1:09 PM CDT up reply actions
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