Move Those Fucking Camera Guys!

Sacto C Jon Brockman busted his head open when he tumbled into a baseline camera guy tonight. Portland PG Andre Miller also went flying into a baseline camera guy in the Blazers/Sixers game, only this time it was the camera guy who ended up with blood streaming down his face.

The obvious question here is WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE ALL THESE CAMERA GUYS ON THE BASELINE RIGHT NEXT TO THE COURT?

First of all, it's a terrible angle for watching basketball, one that's rarely used in a broadcast. It's kind of like watching a football game from behind the goalposts. But if the league absolutely has to have camera guys there, can't they at least move these motherfuckers back five feet and put a low, cushioned wall there so that players aren't running headfirst into large chunks of metal and plastic at full speed? Or maybe a piece of plexi-glass like the NHL does.

One of these days, a player's gonna fly into that row of cameras and get seriously injured, I guarantee it. Picture this: Lebron James comes down on the fast break, absorbs the predictably hard foul from Kendrick Perkins, goes sailing into the cameras and breaks his fucking neck. Or slices one of his fingers completely off. Don't think it can't happen.

UPDATE: CP3 out 1-2 months after collision w camera guy