The guy needed microfracture not after an acute injury, and not after the pounding of an NBA season... but rehabbing. News flash: that's not a guy you should expect to have an NBA career.
It makes the knee stronger than when it was injured, but you're right, it doesn't make the knee stronger than a healthy knee. Oden is going to need MF surgery again someday if he wants a long NBA career, given his young age right now. Probably sooner than later on his right knee, since it has been over 3 years since that MF surgery.
Do you understand how easy and flukish it is to tear cartilage? I don't have a lateral meniscus, and it wasn't from long distance running or years of football. I got out of a car and my knee twisted the wrong way. Shit happens. I just so happens we seem to be living in a septic tank.
Throw in a broken wrist, and a fractured patella, and a broken bone in the foot, and ... did I forget anything? I've lost track of Greg's injuries. They all blend together for me at this point.
I dare you to point to one NBA player that had so many injuries (none of them from twisting or slipping or anything) so quickly and produced a decent career.
Okay. I've fractured and dislocated my left radius and ulna twice. I've snapped my ACL and MCL. Big deal. Injuries happen.
There is a difference I think Maxie. I think you are talking about meniscus cartilage as far as the "more easily injured" goes. I have a lot of experience with knees as well (3 surgeries) and from my understanding it's a lot more unusual to tear the articular so easily as greg has done. Just my opinion.
Bill Walton. Kenyon Martin. Grant Hill. The only injuries that were freakish on Oden were his two cartilage injuries. The others were all explainable. I know you're angry. I know you're hurt. But to make a decision right now is simply illogical. GO is a reasonably low priced option with significant upside.
That's a good point. And yet, they're doing microfracture. Why not just clip it and have him play in a month or two? The answer is that they think he can be a player after this injury.
Does Oden have to take the qualifying offer if it is given? Because if I were him I would leave Portland tomorrow and never return. Nothing but bad memories and demolished dreams for him here. Plus, I read an interview where he said people would come up to him on the street and ask him to not get injured. Like he wanted to be crippled and should change his mind. I hope he has a decent career. I just know that isn't going to happen in a Blazer uniform.
I don't understand why you keep referencing your own injuries. You aren't being paid millions of dollars to be an elite and "once-in-a-generation" athlete. If Oden was a great accountant or attorney, I wouldn't care at all about any injuries that he had suffered, and how they happened. Since Oden is a professional athlete, his injuries tend to matter more, at least in my mind.
one thing is I believe you don't or can't "clip" an articular injury easily like you do a meniscus one. most articular injuries require microfracture
Were fucked, pure and simple. I don't see many impact players in the upcoming drafts either that will turn that around. We will be picking borderline lotto for the next few years, stuck in mediocrity.
As long as we offer it, we have the option to match any other offer. He can decline the offer, but couldn't play in the NBA or in Europe.
