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Thomas undergoes six-hour spinal surgery
Associated Press
Derrick Thomas underwent six hours
o f surgery to rebuild part o f his spine,
and his surgeon said it appears the
NFL star will be paralyzed from the
chest down.
“It’s a very serious injury, a bad one,”
neurosurgeon Barth G reen said
Tuesday from Jackson Memorial
Medical Center. “He may have some
feeling in his feet, and he has some
weakness in his hands.”
The Kansas City Chiefs linebacker
was in serious condition after the
operation that ended early Tuesday,
h o sp ita l sp o k esw o m an R egina
Ponder said.
Thomas was thrown from his car
Sunday after losing control on an icy
highway near Kansas City, Mo. A
passenger was killed in the accident.
Thomas broke his spine and neck and
wound up semiconscious with no
feeling in his legs.
The 33-year-old player, one o f the
most popular athletes in Kansas City,
w as flown from L iberty (M o.)
Memorial Hospital to Miami, his
hometown and his mother’s home.
The surgical plan was to decompress
the spinal cord, stabilize the spinal
column with screws, rods and hooks
and im plant bone g ra fts from
Thomas’ hip.
The hospital is the home ofthe Miami
Project to Cure Paralysis, the w orld’s
largest spinal cord injury research
c e n te r, and its su rg e o n s have
operated on race car driver Emerson
Fittipaldi and other athletes.
“These type ofinjuries have a mind o f
their own and a treatment pattern o f
their own,” Dr. Jon Browne, the
Chiefs' physician, said before the
operation. “They’re all uniquely and
individually different. ’ ’
Mike Tellis, one o f Thom as’ two
passengers in the car, was killed and
10 other people lost their lives in the
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treacherous snow storm that iced
Missouri roads Sunday.
Thomas was driving with two friends
to Kansas City International Airport
for a trip to the NFC championship
game in St. Louis when his car ft ipped
several times.
Thomas and Tellis, 49, o f Kansas
City, Kan., were not wearing seat
belts and were thrown from the car,
police said. Tellis was killed instantly.
A third man in the car who was wearing
his seat belt was treated and released.
Team m ates and friends gathered
Monday at the Missouri hospital to
visit Thomas, a nine-time Pro Bowl
player and one o f the game’s most
feared pass rushers.
Thomas holds the one-game record
o f seven sacks and ranks ninth on the
career list. His seven sacks against
Seattle in 1990 came near Veterans
Day. He dedicated his effort to his
father, an Air Force pilot killed in
Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II.
Brooks says he is considering UNLV,
Oklahoma, UCLA and Georgia. He
says he has put the mistakes behind
him.
“A lot of people mistake the way I
play as attitude, but it’s just the way
1 am," he says. “ I play with a lot o f
tenacity.”
Brooks has always been driven. He
played a g a in st o ld e r guys in
Northeast Portland at the Salvation
Army gym or Irving Park. His talent
has always drawn attention, like when
he dunked for the first time at an
e ig h th -g ra d e to u rn a m e n t in
Beaverton.
This season, he shares the spotlight.
Jefferson, which plays as if it is the
Democrats against the world, has six
college prospects. Brooks still talks
about M iles’ spectacular tip-dunk
during an early win over Seattle’s
Rainier Beach High School.
“Everybody on our team could start
for any other team in the league,” he
says.
Brooks says he will select a college
after the season. Right now, he’s
focused on a state championship and
living up to the confidence placed in
him by those close to him.
“I am just trying to please the coaches
and the people around me who have
supported me.”
And so he listens to the Bay Area
rapper E40 before games and takes
his fire to the floor. He can’t imagine
doing anything else.
“That’s what I do. I am basketball
player,” he says.
And Brandon Brooks in control ofhis
1 i fe is a basketball player who can fill
any arena.
Jordan trash talks his way through practice
A ssociated P ress
Michael Jordan put on a No. 23 W ashington Wizards
jersey and gave his new team a lesson in intensity.
Practicing with the Wizards for the first time, Jordan
dribbled, dunked, scrimmaged and coached during
Monday’s two-hour workout. Most o f all, he motivated -
trash-talking a punchless team that’s been going nowhere
all season. “I told them they shouldn’t have to wait for me
to come out to show the energy that they had today,”
Jordan said. “I just tried to keep them focused, challenge
them, say whatever I have to say. If they can play hard
against me, they can play hard against anybody.”
Jordan, who last week became a Wizards part-owner and
president o f basketball operations, was the first to arrive.
He ragged on Rod Strickland for being less than punctual
and let everyone know he was in charge, even ordering the
media to leave when they entered the gym.
"H e’s a competitive guy,” forward Juwan Howard said.
“O f course, we all know he’s one o f the biggest trash
talkers, so that makes it more intense. I enjoy that the most.
I feed off that type o f energy, when you’re talking trash.
He’s going to push you. When you’re 13-29, that’s what
this team needs.”
Trail Blazers stomp on the Nets 101,87
Associated Press
The Portland Trail Blazers were
struggling with the New Jersey Nets,
one o f the N BA ’s worst road teams,
until they got some inspiration.
The Blazers appeared to gain some
energy after the public address
announcement that the Utah Jazz had
beaten the Los Angeles Lakers in
double overtime.
“We saw that Utah beat LA, and we
had a little momentum that let us push
it down their throat and run them out
ofth e gym,” Portland’s Bonzi Wells
said afferthe Blazers’ 101-87 victory
M onday night. Since falling to
Houston and Dallas during its recent
five-game road trip, the Blazers are on
aroll. They finished the tripby winning
in San Antonio and against the Lakers,
and are just 1 1/2 games behind Los
Angeles in the Pacific Division.
“ I th in k w hat w e ’re d o in g is
progressing,” said Greg Anthony,
who hit three 3-pointers during a 17-
2 run that decided the game. “W e’re
not playing as well as w e’re capable
o f - nowhere near it - but w e’re starting
to play, headed in the right d-rection.”
The Blazers are 2-1 this season against
the Lakers, who might be the only
team that can keep Portland from the
NBA Finals. The rivalry has become
so in te n se ,
th e B lazers
get fired up
e v en w hen
the teams are
hundreds o f miles away. The Lakers-
Jazz score was announced shortly
before New Jersey took its last lead,
at 74-73, on consecutive 3-pointers
by Lucious Harris. But then Scottie
Pippen gave the Blazers the lead for
good with a 19-foot jumper with 10:19
to play.
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Trevell Overton
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