The younger brother of IU recruit Austin Etherington was pushed from behind while dunking on a breakaway. The fall resulted in bleeding on the brain and temporary paralysis and he will miss the remainder of the season.

 

Kids get frustrated and sometimes they do stupid things. Next time you're chasing someone from behind think of this kid's head hitting the floor and pass on your impulse.

 

That's an intentional foul. Poor judgment on his part. Chilling video.

 

Any word on if the kid is alright?

Wow, that looked awful. Made my son watch it.

That's an intentional foul. Poor judgment on his part. Chilling video.

 

Any word on if the kid is alright?

 

He will return to action next year.

Chilling, good think it was in slow motion to soften the effect, which I am sure it won't be in court.

The younger brother of IU recruit Austin Etherington was pushed from behind while dunking on a breakaway. The fall resulted in bleeding on the brain and temporary paralysis and he will miss the remainder of the season.

 

Kids get frustrated and sometimes they do stupid things. Next time you're chasing someone from behind think of this kid's head hitting the floor and pass on your impulse.

 

 

Watched him alot this summer as him and Zollo were both on the Indiana Elite team. Hate to see any kid get hurt.

The player who pushed him from behind will be lucky if he is not prosecuted criminally.

Ridiculous act by the defender. I noticed that was Kyle Macy's alma matre.

The player who pushed him from behind will be lucky if he is not prosecuted criminally.

Agreed! Did he mean to hurt him bad? I'm guessing not. But when he is at the free throw line with both arms out, doesn't even look towards to ball, and just pushes him at the waist it was clear he wanted to punish him for dunking and or try and stop the dunk. If he would have made an attempt for the ball I would feel 100% different.

The player who pushed him from behind will be lucky if he is not prosecuted criminally.

 

Zero chance.

Zero chance.

 

I will go out on a limb and put the chance of criminal prosecution at more than zero. You can have zero. I'll take .0000000000000001% to 100%.

I will go out on a limb and put the chance of criminal prosecution at more than zero. You can have zero. I'll take .0000000000000001% to 100%.

 

Deal.

I'm sure that kid feels bad enough... Poor judgement by a kid in a split-second situation. It didn't look to be intentional (in terms of hurting someone). Hopefully both get through this, like GS said, hate for any kid to get hurt.

What I was most surprised at was that the score was 2-0, and the game was less than 2 minutes old. Strange time to foul a kid like that.

I'm sure that kid feels bad enough... Poor judgement by a kid in a split-second situation. It didn't look to be intentional (in terms of hurting someone). Hopefully both get through this, like GS said, hate for any kid to get hurt.

 

According to a post a read somewhere, there had been other incidents with this same player, using inapprorite slang language, etc. Sounds like the player has all around bad sportsmanship to me and the coach better get him under control. Benching a player like that for a while always seems to help. But from what I understand, he was not taken out of the game after this intentional take out of the player. In my opinion, that makes the coach look bad too.