Hill out for season with hip injury

---

The Lakers announced Friday that former Arizona center Jordan Hill will miss the remainder of the season with a hip injury.

“I feel like I let down the team,” Hill was quoted as saying by the Los Angeles Times. “I let down the fans.”

According to the Lakers, Hill was examined by team doctor Steve Lombardo and hip specialist Dr. Jason Snibbe Friday and underwent an anthrogram test. The test revealed “loose fragments in addition to a possible labral tear” in the hip, which will require surgery, the Lakers announced.

Hill was hurt Sunday against the Denver Nuggets at Staples Center.

“Andre Miller drove baseline and Kobe (Bryant), trying to go back and guard him, he accidentally stepped on my foot,” Hill told the Times. “Like, I stayed in one spot but my hip kept going. It kind of pulled the joint out.”

Hill noticeably hobbled around the locker room before Friday’s game with Oklahoma City. The injury hadn’t improved as the week progressed.

“My hip wasn’t feeling right. It had to be something major,” Hill told the Times. “(The doctors) wanted me to get the MRI with the dye in it to make sure. That’s when they found everything that’s wrong with it.”

– Richard Jefferson is involved in trade talks although teams like Memphis are leery of taking on his $21 million contract.

– In Jason Terry’s latest blog for ESPN.com he is predicting a Seattle-New England Super Bowl. He says his hometown Seahawks and Patriots are his favorite teams.

ARIZONA PLAYERS IN THE NBA
Updated Jan. 12

Player	Team	G	MPG	FG%	3PT%	FT%	APG	RPG	PPG
Andre Iguodala	Denver	38	35.0	.444	.329	.624	4.50	5.82	13.87
a-Chase Budinger	Minnesota	6	23.4	.480	.304	.800	1.50	3.67	11.83
Jason Terry	Boston	36	29.6	.427	.360	.873	2.39	2.14	10.56
Derrick Williams	Minnesota	29	18.1	.432	.379	.743	0.41	4.31	9.00
Will Bynum	Detroit	28	16.4	.433	.375	.816	3.21	1.14	7.54
b-Jordan Hill	L.A. Lakers	29	15.8	.497	.000	.656	0.45	5.72	6.69
Jerryd Bayless	Memphis	35	17.8	.376	.317	.816	3.31	1.94	5.34
Richard Jefferson	Golden State	18	11.1	.339	.143	.714	1.06	1.11	2.83
Luke Walton	Cleveland	17	14.0	.345	.174	.400	1.59	2.53	2.71
c-Channing Frye	Phoenix	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

a–Budinger is out until early March at the earliest with a torn lateral meniscus in his left knee.
b–Hill is out the remainder of the season with a hip injury
c–Frye is out this season because of an enlarged heart treatable with rest.

ARIZONA PLAYERS INTERNATIONALLY & D-LEAGUE
Stats provided by EuroBasket.com. Updated Jan. 12

Player	Team	G	MPG	FG%	3PT%	FT%	APG	RPG	PPG
a-Marcus Williams	China
	Shanxi	13	33.1	58.1	55.8	83.6	5.2	6.2	30.9
Jesse Perry	Lebanon
	Hoops Club	1	39.0	50.0	75.0	70.0	0.0	11.3	28.0
Jamelle Horne	Mexico
	Mexicali	11	27.3	60.6	40.0	85.7	1.1	5.8	22.7
b-Michael Wright	Turkey
	Mersin	14	33.4	55.4	0.0	78.7	0.4	6.4	21.0
Mustafa Shakur	Italy
	Sidigas	14	29.1	46.0	24.1	73.9	3.8	3.5	12.6
Loren Woods	Lebanon
	Al Riyadi	10	26.1	60.5	0.0	66.7	1.1	9.3	11.2
Daniel Dillon	Romania
	CSM Oradea	17	24.5	61.3	39.4	79.0	3.2	5.4	10.9
J.P. Prince	Turkey
	Mersin	13	28.5	51.9	29.0	54.1	1.8	6.5	10.1
c-Josiah Turner	Canada
	Halifax	15	25.6	38.0	25.0	80.0	3.7	4.9	9.8
Gilbert Arenas	China
	Shanghai	4	14.3	63.6	25.0	76.9	2.8	4.5	9.8
Ivan Radenovic	Ukraine
	BC Donetsk	14	20.1	50.5	21.4	75.0	1.9	5.2	9.4
Kyle Fogg	D-League
	Rio Grande	15	21.3	40.0	26.2	80.4	2.3	3.7	7.6
Kyryl Natyazhko	Ukraine
	Azovmash	15	10.3	61.5	0.0	45.5	0.3	3.2	6.0
Brendon Lavender	Sweden
	Stockholm	5	20.8	35.7	21.4	100.0	0.8	1.6	4.6

a–Williams has been suspended six months by the Chinese Basketball League for failing a drug test.
b–Wright goes by Ali Karadeniz, his Turkish name
c–Turner was released by Halifax on Jan. 2
Note–Mohamed Tangara (at UA from 2005-08) plays professionally in Angola but that league is out of season currently.

Site publisher, writer and editor Javier Morales is a former Arizona Press Club award winner