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In Spanish http://www.nba.com/espanol/blog/blog...ez.html#071116

Some transcripts:

[...]The situation, Garbajosa told me, is very very hard [...]

[...]I [Reporter] tried to get an explanation from Sam Mitchell but, to my surprise, he didn't want, and did not answer me. He just turned around in bad manner and left babbling something[...] A situation I had never encountered in all years I've been covering the NBA[...]

[...]Garbajosa assured me that he "feels phisically perfect" [...]

[...]"My conscience is very clean about what I did in the recovery, I played with my National Team without risks thanks to the insurance [...] I don't regret nothing at all, I have that very clear. I'd do the same again If I faced the same situation"

southeasy

MRI's don't lie.... i do not think toronto or management has a vendetta at all truely...

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bigbabyjesus

yeeeah okay

you might feel 'perfect' buddy, but that doesnt mean somethings not SERIOUSLY wrong with you.

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dirtybird

It's a shame that so many rights result in a big wrong. Garbajosa didn't give up on a play in a game that they no longer had any shot of winning and he wanted to play for his country. Unfortunately, he refused to have the surgery to properly correct the problem and he seems very stubborn in doing what's probably best for him and his team. So now he has to deal with the consequences when he's not playing as well as necessary. For such a team guy, I'm disappointed in the way he's handled the situation and has complained about the situation that he stubbornly insisted on.

Crossword

I think that "journalist" has a vendetta with the Raptors because his boy is getting outplayed by Jamario Moon.

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trick

Chris Bosh has evident plantir fascitis but he's allowed to play through it.

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R-Star

So is every good player. Plantir fascitis is a joke injury.

trick

this so-called vendetta doesn't even make sense. this team takes great pride in its international-oriented roster and yet it's frowned upon for one of those international players to play for their native land during a global competition? especially when international players are typical to have great pride in their native land?

and what's with some people's hostility towards Garbo? remember when vince hated to play through any sort of pain, no matter how minor? now take Gargo who's willing to play through any pain no matter how severe. i know it's probably for his own good to sit him out with this injury but give me a player who needs to be held down for competition rather than a player who has to be talked into trying.

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trick

joke or not it still pains for said player to play through it.

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seifer0406

Don't get me wrong, I adore Garbo's competitive spirit and true grit. However, he needs to know that at his current condition, he cannot help the team from taking playtime away from Moon/Delfino/Humphries and others. It's one thing to be willing to play through pain, it's another to be actually able to perform better than people ahead of him on the depth chart. If he can't do that, he shouldn't be complaining about it, that's the right thing to do in my opinion.

ballocks

this is an excellent point.

now, i may be in the minority, but does garbajosa look injured to anyone? i'm not talking about his pain, i'm not talking about his mri's, i'm not talking about any of that- it's just that if i had not known that he was still recovering from an injury suffered last season, i would not have picked it up from the way he's played this year. imo, he looks exactly the same.

i've said it before, too: if he's not playing now, imo, it's because he's simply not good enough- or rather, his competition is better. that doesn't mean he's terrible, doesn't even mean he's worse than last year. just means that the team has thankfully improved around him.

i'm not the biggest conspiracy theorist but is joey really hurt? seems too convenient for me that two rotation players from last year can't get into the rotation this year, and suffer injuries to keep themselves under the radar. i don't know if that would be their doing or the team's doing, but i'd be lying if i didn't say that it's got to be someone's doing. it'd be a sleazy (but effective) way to keep the media off the story- or perhaps it's just a coincidence.

peace

Flush

Clearly you've never experienced it. You're a joke

I'm not sure what to make of the Garbo situation. I would assume that if he is just being being outplayed by his teammates the coaching staff would make him aware of that. This is a lingering issue and I would think that they wanted to squash it.

The fact that none of the raptors brass is addressing the issue, leads me to believe there is something to it. I'm sure they are getting sick of reading about it and facing questions in the scrum.

PS joey is not hurt...he's just not very smart. Still stewing over that extension.

The Mad Viking

I'm not sure if Garbo is quite the same player as last year. Mostly, he hasn't got enough minutes to be sure. I really believe he does have something that hasn't healed the way it should, and that another surgery would be helpful. And as a player, I would rather play at 95% than miss a season. As a GM, I would rather have a player I can live without get back to 100%.

I don't believe Joey is hurt. Most if not all teams do this, and the Raps have done this in the past.

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