Joe Freeman @BlazerFreeman LaMarcus Aldridge is scheduled to meet with doctors for a checkup on his heart procedure Thursday. anyone nervous? this also an attempt to distract from the kingspeed sex thread scandel.
I'm not nervous. I was nervous when it was reported that he went to see the doctor for it. Now that the doc sent him home, he's been working out, and now he's getting a checkup, I'm not really nervous at all.
Because of Roy and Oden it seems like we got a bunch of chicken littles running around our fan base. Hey injuries happen, sure we've had bad luck but theres hundreds of players careers cut short by injuries, just the nature of the beast when your dealing with the most elite athletes on the planet. LaMarcus' heart condition is one of the most minor health issues any athlete could have. Even if his condition wasn't found and treated it most likely would have had near zero impact to his basketball career. Him getting it treated is a nice preventive heart health. I'll wish good health news for any person but I have near zero concern about his heart impacting his basketball career. I'm far more concerned with the minutes Nate may try to get LaMarcus to play with our limited backup options at the 4/5.
I was nervous the first time this all happened. What does bug me as that his problem came back. How many times is this going to happen?
when it comes to heart, I have no concern about bball, I just hope LMA has a healthy heart for his own sake. Blow a knee, I might have concern about basketball, but once a health problem is identified regarding the heart, head or spine, and basketball becomes a irrelevant.
That depends on if they catch it (next time) before it kills him. If they keep him closely monitored, they can keep re-operating on him and sending him out there to play again. If it comes back during a game, well... If we still have offers I'd trade him in a heartbeat.
WTF ever... even if undiagnosed his condition is extremely rare to have dissasterous symptoms and those are usually many years later when he's like 50.
I understand what you're saying, but I do have a few questions. How many All-NBA/All-Star players have had to retire at age 27, and how many #1 overall picks have missed 75% of their games during the first four years of their career? Portland has been through some unique injury issues, so if anything, nothing should surprise us fans if LMA ends up with something worse than expected.
Guys like Penny Hardaway, Steve Francis, Tracy McGrady should have retired at 27 due to injuries, they were shells of their all-star days just like Roy, but they were arguably more dominant players in their prime. We're probably lucky Roy isn't trying to limp around like they did. Houston had injuries to #1 pick Ralph Sampson. He carried them to the finals with Hakeem then was crippled shortly after. Yes they got a few more healthy seasons out of Sampson then we have from Oden, but his career ended far too soon. So while these catostrophic injuries are unlikely, they definetely do happen and especially with 7-footers. Wasn't Yao still in his 20's? It can just be hard to keep a freakishly tall person healthy playing a high impact sport.
Ralph Sampson didn't miss 75% of his games, and those other guys didn't retire. McGrady was an All-Star at age 27; why should he have retired? Steve Francis was more hype than productive; Roy had much better advanced stats when healthy. Penny Hardaway had one great season with a 24.6 PER, everything else was under 21. So ... what is your point? You're going back 25 years to try and argue a point, and even with that, you can't find a team that has had injuries to legitimate superstar players at the same time like Portland has had with Roy and Oden.
I'm not disagreeing we've had bad luck of injuries. My only point was it's silly to overblow a tiny routine procedure of Aldridge and act as though the sky is falling. I understand why people are freaking out, because of black Friday a bunch of our fan base is overly emotional right now and freaking out. I'm just going to call people out on it when they're freaking out over nothing.
I guess I haven't seen anybody freaking out over LMA's heart issue showing up again. I think pretty much everybody assumes it's routine; my point was that nothing should surprise us as a fanbase at this point in terms of injury.
