Now here is a weird video taken from the Nuggets-Thunder game last April 7, 2010. Carmelo Anthony bumps head first into the chest of Kevin Durant, he falls down but the play goes on. The referees should have stopped the play but instead of doing so, they let the Thunder inbound the ball and the game continues. JR Smith steals the ball but instead of calling a timeout, he drove to the basket where Melo was still lying and got called for the travel. Now what happened to looking after your teammates back?
A stinger is a nerve pinch injury that typically affects nerves in the neck. According to noted medical text Wikipedia, stingers occur in one of two ways: "either the head and neck are forced toward the shoulder, compressing the nerves that lead from the spinal cord to that arm, or the head and neck are forced away from the shoulder, stretching those nerves."
Here is the video of the entire incident. Luckily for Melo he was able to recover and finished the game in fashion, hitting two clutch free throws to ice the game.
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