Tyshawn Taylor’s Thumb Appears to be Healing
Posted by nvr1983 on October 14th, 2009It appears that college basketball’s most well-known pugilist, Tyshawn Taylor, may be returning to the court a little sooner than expected as Bill Self announced on Tuesday that Taylor might participate in “Late Night in the Phog”. Since the local Lawrence paper decided to omit it and Self apparently has forgotten about it we will refresh your memory on how Taylor injured his thumb:
- Taylor and several of his teammates including Sherron Collins were involved in a huge fight with the KU football team
- After the fights, news spread that Taylor had been posting Facebook status updates essentially giving prosecutors evidence that this was not a spontaneous fight. Given the experience of Markieff Morris (one of Taylor’s teammates) with the legal system you would have expected that Taylor would have at least had the foresight not to post his motive online. Instead, Taylor decided to introduce the world to the term “point plankn”.
- News broke that this was actually the second fight between the two sides and that Taylor would be out 3-4 weeks with his injury.
Not Necessarily TT's Thumb
If Taylor were to comeback on Friday night it would not exactly be a medical miracle as it would be nearly 3 weeks since the fights. However, it would raise issues as to Self’s ability to discipline his team. Given the negative attention the incident drew to the program and the other stuff that has been going on at Kansas and around college basketball in general it might be prudent for Self to hold Taylor out of this event that Self refers to as “a fun night, a big night”. While I’m sure the Jayhawk fans would love to see the sophomore guard wow the crowd, it might be more important for Self to send a message to his team and its fans by having Taylor sit this one (and a few early season games) out.
