<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">All those who would rather just stand there than do something have a new hero in Paul Pierce. After turning an active 3,084 minutes into his best NBA season, the Celtic captain has found subsequent success by taking it easy. Pierce fully planned to have surgery to alleviate his left elbow bursitis, but he has been able to avoid a procedure through simple rest. ?The doctors just didn?t feel like he needed it,? Celtics director of basketball operations Danny Ainge said. ?It was iffy whether he would have surgery, but we were kind of planning on it. Then his elbow just started getting better, and he hasn?t had any problems. ?They drained it during the season and they haven?t drained it since. It?s just gotten better. He had fluid there because he kept banging on it, but once he rested it it?s been fine, so there?s no need to do surgery. I don?t think surgery is ever good. You know, they say minor surgery is what they do on someone else.? Pierce is gearing up for camp with the U.S. National Team in mid-July in Las Vegas. </div> Source
I'm not a doctor, but I'd tend to think that surgery is the best option here. Might as well fix it before it starts acting up again. On the other hand, he played pretty well with that bursitis, so maybe it's for the best.
