FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 20, 2011 CONTACTS: Jim Taylor, Trail Blazers, 503.956.8456 Collin Romer, Trail Blazers, 503.201.2414 TRAIL BLAZERS CENTER MARCUS CAMBY UNDERGOES SUCCESSFUL SURGERY PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland Trail Blazers center Marcus Camby underwent successful arthroscopic surgery to repair a partial medial meniscus tear in his left knee this morning, it was announced by General Manager Rich Cho. Dr. Don Roberts performed the surgery in Vancouver, Wash., and Camby is expected to miss approximately three weeks. "We're pleased with the outcome of today's surgery, and look forward to seeing Marcus back on the court soon," said Cho. "In the meantime, we have confidence in our frontcourt players to step into the void left by Marcus and help us continue to win games." In 39 games (all starts) this season, Camby has averaged 5.9 points, 11.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.87 blocks in 28.7 minutes. He ranks fifth in the NBA in rebounds and 10th in blocked shots per game. Camby is the only player in the Western Conference averaging at least 11.0 rebounds and 1.50 blocks. He has grabbed at least 10 boards in 26 games and led the team in rebounding a team-high 28 times this season. This email was sent by: Trail Blazers Communications Department One North Center Court, Suite 200 Portland, OR 97227 United States If you no longer want to receive news releases from the Portland Trail Blazers, click here We respect your right to privacy - view our policy
wow i hope thats true. dirk missed 3 weeks with a bruise! SpearsNBAYahoo Blazers center Marcus Camby projected to miss 3 weeks arthroscopic surgery to repair a partial medial meniscus tear in his left knee today.
Interesting they said "repair" rather than "remove." But the recovery time for the repair should generally be much longer than the removal of the tear. Weird. But Cho's quote is disappointing. Big men are going to manhandle us inside unless we make a move and get some help.
So Camby was at the game last night, then flew back to Portland to have surgery this morning? That's a good team guy, right there.
So 3 weeks out, I am going to have to sit down and see who they play over that period to kind of figure out how this is going to play out.
Boston, SAC, Spurs and Den will give us trouble. That's it (add Indy if Hibbert is back). Maybe it's not that bad.
Looking at the schedule if the 3 weeks ends up working out, he'll miss 9 total games(10 if you count yesterday but the team won so who cares) and he'll go on the 3 game road trip of Tor/Det/Min. All those teams suck though so they could play it safe... If the team doesn't rush him back as quickly as possible, imo it'll be 12 games and they'll bring him back against NO after the 3 game road trip against NO and that will basically be 4 weeks.
Looking at the schedule one more time the NO game is the game before the AS break. It'd make sense to just keep him out of that I suppose and give him that much longer to heal and bring him back after the AS break which would be 5 weeks after surgery.
I think you're parsing the words a little too much here. There are degrees of meniscus repair/removal. In each case of a meniscal tear they always "remove" something, but in this case it probably means that they were able to shave the torn medial part of the meniscus and that the tear didn't compromise the entire meniscus -- in which case it would be a full menisectomy. The fact that he's supposed to be back in a matter of weeks rather than months backs this up.
When they went in to fix cartilage in Oden's knee and had to do MF before he ever played a game for us.
