A "deep gash on the arm" doesn't do it justice apparently. Dirk said they spent "like an hour" working on his arm during the game. He said the doctor "had his entire hand inside his elbow". Said they took pieces out, sewed him up, took xrays, and then had to open him back up again to get stuff they had missed that showed up on the xray.
He said it hurt a lot; said he was on pain killers all day yesterday and that he'd barely slept for two days. He tried to loosen out his elbow and give it a go tonight but he just wasn't comfortable. He said if it had been the playoffs he probably would have taken something and figured out how to be out there.
I was thinking about all this after the fact and realized...Dirk basically got shot in him elbow. A low power, low caliber shooting, obviously. But there was a big impact and he has a foreign object lodged in the flesh of his arm. Not the skin, but down in the flesh; it had to be surgically removed.