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The Warriors centre was demonstrating how he had come to be awarded as one of the NBA's best defenders. 

"I can't extend it,'' he was saying a few hours after he had been named to the NBA All-Defensive second team. "See? It's stuck.'' 

When Bogut runs, his right palm is turned away behind him, facing to the rear as if he was a pitcher who had grown up throwing screwballs. During warmups, while his teammates are hoisting up their shots by rote, his face grimaces each time he extends vertically. He is bracing himself. 

"Sometimes I will shoot and my elbow will give out and it will hurt, like a stabbing pain,'' he said. "And then the next time when I shoot it's fine. And I don't know when it's going to come.'' 

Bogut's offensive potential had been in bloom five years ago as he went up for a breakaway dunk on behalf of the Milwaukee Bucks, who had made him the No. 1 pick overall in the 2005 draft. High above the floor, he could feel Amare Stoudemire brushing underneath him. He was trying to hold onto the rim, to straighten himself, when he fell horizontally as if from a second-story window. His right arm was extended beneath him gruesomely as he landed. 

"I dislocated it, so it was facing the other way,'' he said of his right shooting elbow. "I broke a bone (in the elbow), broke my wrist on both sides, broke two of my fingers.'' His index finger was strengthened by a surgically-inserted pin, but his middle finger remains weak. "I never got the pin put into it,'' he said, ``so it still affects me.'' 

There was the enduring trauma to his right shooting arm, which was followed by another injury that also threatened his career. Bogut was reviewing these issues on Wednesday not out of self-pity but of pride. If he were able to straighten his right shooting arm, if his health enabled him to dominate offensively, then he might not be standing seven wins away from the NBA championship. The Warriors are among the grateful beneficiaries of his suffering. 

its a good read, i wonder what other NBA centres feel like when they are beaten with a guy who has a disability!

The Warriors centre was demonstrating how he had come to be awarded as one of the NBA's best defenders. 

"I can't extend it,'' he was saying a few hours after he had been named to the NBA All-Defensive second team. "See? It's stuck.'' 

When Bogut runs, his right palm is turned away behind him, facing to the rear as if he was a pitcher who had grown up throwing screwballs. During warmups, while his teammates are hoisting up their shots by rote, his face grimaces each time he extends vertically. He is bracing himself. 

"Sometimes I will shoot and my elbow will give out and it will hurt, like a stabbing pain,'' he said. "And then the next time when I shoot it's fine. And I don't know when it's going to come.'' 

Bogut's offensive potential had been in bloom five years ago as he went up for a breakaway dunk on behalf of the Milwaukee Bucks, who had made him the No. 1 pick overall in the 2005 draft. High above the floor, he could feel Amare Stoudemire brushing underneath him. He was trying to hold onto the rim, to straighten himself, when he fell horizontally as if from a second-story window. His right arm was extended beneath him gruesomely as he landed. 

"I dislocated it, so it was facing the other way,'' he said of his right shooting elbow. "I broke a bone (in the elbow), broke my wrist on both sides, broke two of my fingers.'' His index finger was strengthened by a surgically-inserted pin, but his middle finger remains weak. "I never got the pin put into it,'' he said, ``so it still affects me.'' 

There was the enduring trauma to his right shooting arm, which was followed by another injury that also threatened his career. Bogut was reviewing these issues on Wednesday not out of self-pity but of pride. If he were able to straighten his right shooting arm, if his health enabled him to dominate offensively, then he might not be standing seven wins away from the NBA championship. The Warriors are among the grateful beneficiaries of his suffering. 

its a good read, i wonder what other NBA centres feel like when they are beaten with a guy who has a disability!