<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Lakers center Kwame Brown will have bone spurs removed from his left ankle next week, the Los Angeles Times reports. The surgery casts some doubt over his playing status for the start of next season and could factor into trade possibilities for the Lakers during the offseason. Kwame Brown Brown Ankle specialist Dave Porter will perform Brown's surgery in Indianapolis, the newspaper reports, and Brown's agent Mark Bartelstein told the Times that Brown will undergo reconstructive surgery if doctors deem it necessary. "We're not sure if it needs to get reconstructed or not," Bartelstein told the newspaper on Friday. "They're going to go in and test the strength of the ligaments and see if they need to repair them. He also has some bone spurs he needs to get cleaned out." If Brown has reconstructive surgery, he would need months of recovery time. If his ankle doesn't need reconstructive surgery, Brown's rehab time would be less. The Lakers begin training camp the first week of October. "Until they get in there and see what needs to be done, there's no timetable," Bartelstein told the Times. Brown, 25, has one year at $9.1 million left on his contract. He could have been a key part of trade talks for the Lakers this summer, but Brown's possible reconstructive surgery hampers that. Brown's expiring contract would be valuable to teams as a means of getting under the salary cap. Lakers officials declined to comment to the newspaper. <font size=""5"">Teammate Lamar Odom had shoulder surgery last week and will need four months to recover.</font> Brown hurt the ankle when he landed on the foot of Sixers' guard Andre Miller after blocking Miller's shot in a Dec. 31 game. Brown sat out 27 games with the ankle injury before returning in March. He sat out seven more games over the next six weeks because of lingering ankle pain before coming back for the last two games of the regular season. </div> Full article at ESPN.com <font size=""5"">Oh crap...</font>
4 months !?! An article I posted earlier said Odom would be ready to practice after 10 days, there must have been a setback. This also makes it difficult to trade Odom if the Lakers were planning on making a blockbuster move. With his luck, Kwame will need the reconstructive surgery. We need something positive for a change.
