Travis Outlaw Breaks Foot, Same Injury Martell Had Last Year

In tonight's victory in Charlotte, the Blazers suffered a major personnel loss.  Travis Outlaw has a stress fracture to his fifth metatarsal, which is the same injury Martell Webster had last season. We all know how that went.

The injury happened on a relatively normal play, he was coming out to defend Gerald Wallace and planted his foot when Wallace went to the hoop.

This is a critical loss considering Travis' status as the third or fourth scoring option. Not only that, but the Blazers are thin enough with depth in the front court. Jason Quick sums up the situation nicely:

X-Rays revealed a stress fracture of the fifth metatarsal...the small bone on top of the foot near the small toe. It is the same injury, to the same foot, that teammate Martell Webster endured last season.

Webster suffered his initial fracture in October and didn't return until December. In Webster's first game back, he broke the same bone in the same place and missed the rest of the season.

Figuring Outlaw has the same timeline of Webster's initial injury (six-to-eight weeks) he figures to return around mid-January, a span of around 29 games.

Outlaw is one of the Blazers' top reserves, and was averaging 10.9 points and 3.8 rebounds in 23.1 minutes. Veteran Juwan Howard figures to assume most of Outlaw's playing time.