Martin To Undergo Another Surgery

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Kenyon Martin is out of answers.

Standing in the hallway outside the Nuggets locker room Wednesday night, Martin shook his head in disbelief after learning he would need arthroscopic surgery to remove loose cartilage in his right knee.

The news came just hours after the power forward talked about being healthy again after a long recovery from microfracture surgery on his left knee in May 2005.

"I need something. Rabbit's foot, something," Martin said. "I have no idea at this point what Kenyon needs to do to avoid stuff like this."

A surgery date has not been set, and Martin said he has no idea how long he will be sidelined. He sat out the Nuggets' 109-107 loss to the New York Knicks on Wednesday night.

"We're going to talk further (today)," he said. "It was just kind of a spur-of-the-moment decision. It happened quick. . . . I was expecting to play. I was taped and everything and then the doc came in and looked at me and told me I needed (a magnetic resonance imaging exam)."

Arthroscopic knee surgery is common among athletes and typically requires a recovery of about two to four weeks.

One Nuggets player said he expects Martin to miss more than a month because doctors might be concerned that an early return could affect Martin's left knee.

Martin missed 26 games last season in the wake of microfracture surgery.

"I grabbed him at halftime and said, 'Are you ever going to have any good luck?' " Nuggets coach George Karl said. </div>

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<div class="quote_poster">houston_owns_u Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Wow, I never expected that either. One minute the knee is healthy, next minute the knee needs another surgery. Not to mention that heavy price cost on such an injury prone player that has become nothing but disappointment to the team.

George Karl started Eduardo Najera? Why not start Nene, they gave that that HUGE contract, he might as well start.</div>

Nene also has swelling in his knees.