Stanley Robinson Hospitalized Due to Staph Infection

Filed under: Magic, NBA D-League, Rio Grande Valley Vipers

Stanley Robinson, selected by the Orlando Magic with the 59th overall pick in this year's NBA Draft, has endured some difficult situations in his young basketball career.



As a junior at the University of Connecticut, Robinson had to take a semester off of school to go to work in an industrial plant so that he was better able to provide for his two young daughters. Following his senior season, Robinson was projected as a possible first-round pick before falling to the penultimate pick of the draft. Robinson then looked like he'd be on the Magic's opening-day roster, but the team surprisingly cut him while electing to keep Malik Allen -- despite the fact that Orlando wasn't over the 15-player maximum and could have kept Robinson on a minimum-salary contract.



The latest setback might be the worst, however.



Robinson, a 6-foot-9 forward, was recently acquired by the Houston Rockets' NBA D-League affiliate Rio Grande Valley Vipers and playing well as he scored 22 points and added five rebounds, two steals and a block in just 18 minutes of action for the club in his second game with the team.



Shortly thereafter, however, Robinson's foot began hurting him. After being limited to just nine minutes in a Vipers' victory on Tuesday, Robinson found that the pain in his foot had been caused by a staph infection, leading to him being admitted to the hospital.

 

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