This week in the NBA--injury report (Edited...Again!!!)

There have been many injuries this year from The Joel Prizbilla the Vanilla Gorilla to Greg Oden to Blake Griffin and Michael Redd. Lately, however there have been a rash of major injuries affecting both east and west the foremost being Chris Paul.

Today's spotlight: CP3 is in the midst of another stand out season for him... That is if it wasn't for his seemingly constant injury. The New Orleans Hornets (Currently tied for 10th in the west to Houston) cannot help but wonder where they would be with their star? Well, all regrets aside, there is good news for the Hornets. Darren Collison and Marcus Thorton have been over exceeding expectations by miles and miles. People are starting to remember that what was said that between Collison and Westbrook on UCLA, Collison was the better guard. There has been mixed news on when Chris Paul will return. Yesterday a New Orleans reporter published that Chris Paul will be ready to return within 7-10 days and that he is eager and excited for his return. Today a new report came out stating that he has "No clue" when he is returning and that he hasn't started performing running exercises which will determine how far he actually is from returning. In other words the only definite news on Chris Paul's return is that he's going to make one for sure, and that is an improvement on what some of the speculation has been over the past two weeks.

More on injuries (there has been a rash of them lately) Joakim Noah will be sidelined for three weeks due to his plantar fasciitis. Don't expect an early return seeing plantar fasciitis has sidelined players for the entire season in the past. When Noah returns it will likely be as Taj Gibson's back up at least until the playoffs. Shaq is out for the rest of the regular season due to thumb surgery. This is probably longer than he needs to recover, but the Cavs would like to see him nice and rested come playoff time. Expect an increase in J.J. Hickson's performance seeing he will lift the bulk of those minutes. Corey Maggette is out for the Warriors' 7 game road trip. If he returns, it would be after that, however they may sideline him for the rest of the season to keep him healthy and prime for the trading block come post season. Jason Terry on the Mavs took a hard elbow to the face last night against the Timber Wolves and will have facial reconstructive surgery today that will sideline him for 7-10 weeks. Yes that does mean the rest of the regular season, so expect an increase in production from Jose Juan Barea. Jason Thompson who injured his back about a week ago is about a week from his return. In his absence Fransisco Garcia, also coming off of injury should see an increase in minutes and production. Turkgolu and Calderon are on their way back for Toronto, and the Canadians aren't sure weather to be excited or worried seeing both of them are possibly the two most disappointing players of the season.

Apparently there were some false reports so here's another update to the injury report. Chris Paul is to return in mid-march. Chris Bosh had a "stomach problem" and had to unexpectedly miss last game. He will be back for his first game in 8 games this weekend. Corey Maggette defied all reports and went with the team on their road trip and played yesterday scoring 18 points. Consider all rumors of him being held out for the rest of the season null. Jason Terry has had three different reports over the past three days. Two days ago it looked like he would be out 7-10 nights. Yesterday they said 7-10 weeks. Today a report came out stating that the surgery was a success and that we should see him back in 10-14 days. Rodney Stucky had a seizure on the bench last game. He is reported stable and breathing on his own now but may miss a couple games. This happened last season during the halftime of a game and he missed games over that as well, so assume he will be out for a few nights.