All athletes are susceptible to freak injuries, but the most gruesome mishaps usually occur in combative sports like football (both kinds) or boxing/MMA. However, don't let anyone ever tell you that basketball isn't a contact sport. We learned that the cringe-inducing way last weekend when we saw Milwaukee Bucks center Andrew Bogutpainfully dislocate his elbow after a dunk against Phoenix. (Amare Stoudemire later tweeted this; Bogut responded. See, Stern? Twitter ain't always bad.) So, with the images of Bogut's lifeless, dangling arm fresh in our minds, we rounded up the 10 most gruesome basketball injuries...
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