Orthopedic Surgeon writes in to Blazersedge

Completely on a tangent here, but in college we had a guy in our frat who we called Shooter. He earned this nickname by nutting in his pants when some hottie was trying to get with him at a party, and he made the mistake of telling somebody about it.

He is still known as Shooter to most of his friends from school.

 

he mentioned the effort

 

Luv it 'er leave it!

 

[video=youtube;4pXfHLUlZf4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4[/url][/video]

 

Media room? Is that where you have teleconference's with all your 'sources'?


Seriously though, its amazing how much cheaper it is to live in the midwest and the south. Tomorrow I'm heading to St. Louis for a week, I have rich relatives out there. They have an 8,000sq ft house that would be probably double what it cost them if they were on the west coast.

 

It's totally cheaper, and it's where I video conference. Get it right please......

Hahaha, it's actually where my kids have taken over because that's where the video games are.

 

What kind of logic is that? Roy's injury situation has nothing to do with whether or not NBA players should play "with heart" during the preseason. The only thing it may prove is that ROY wasn't playing that way due to his knee issues. LeBron James, Dwight Howard, and many other big stars played with a lot of heart during the preseason and had some great all-around games. The fact that those games didn't count, and yet they STILL played hard, is impressive. At the very least, they respected the paying fans who came out to watch them.

Yes, if I had only known that Roy was struggling with knee issues, I would have been as smart as you. Here is what you told us back then:

http://sportstwo.com/threads/171597-What-s-wrong-with-Roy

So Roy has not been great, and you completely discounted the significance of his performance in the preseason, and yet I am the silly one? Do I have that right?

 

Great story! One of your fraternity brothers admitted a problem he had and you and your buddies turned him into a laughingstock. That's really cool!! I'm sure you made his life at college very rewarding.

 

Its almost as good of a story as the time in college when that liberal t-bagged you while you were sleeping and drew penis on your forehead.

 

Sounds like something you might do.

 

I didn't say your posts in that thread were silly for not knowing he was injured, so the fact that I didn't know it either means pretty much nothing. I said they were silly for your attacks on Roy's character. Those were silly with or without the injury...the injury just makes your attacks look all the dumber.

Roy has not been great due to injury. I discounted the idea that not playing well in pre-season is significant (and means the player is pathetic and heartless), because it's not significant. Having an injury is certainly significant, but that isn't what you were claiming. Had your thread point been, "I think Roy is struggling in pre-season due to injury," you'd be vindicated...except you wouldn't have been savaged for that because that, while speculative, wouldn't have been silly moralizing.

Yes. Glad we at least finished on the same page.

 

Another bone on bone take from Blazersedge

"Berger: American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Spokesman On Brandon Roy's Knees

Ken Berger of CBSSports.com spoke with an orthopedic heavy-hitter to get more insight into what Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy is facing with his knees....

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Brandon Roy’s future with bone-on-bone in both knees bears watching, given that his game is based on getting to the basket and he’s only 26 – with a lot of mileage theoretically ahead of him. But Dr. Nicholas DiNubile, spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and former consultant to the Philadelphia 76ers, said it depends on the extent of the damage and where it is. After his latest bout with knee swelling and pain last week, Roy learned that surgery was not an option because he has no meniscus left in either knee. DiNubile said Roy’s fate will be determined by whether he lacks cartilage, too. "It would be extremely unlikely at that age to have no meniscus and no cartilage," DiNubile said. Whether the bone-on-bone condition is occurring in the actual knee joint (bad) or under the kneecap (still bad, but better) also is important. If the bone-on-bone situation is where the tibia meets the femur, "You’re kind of doomed," DiNubile said. "That’s not compatible with up-and-down playing. If he were to have bone-on-bone in the main part of his knee, his career’s going to be limited one way or the other." If the condition exists in the kneecap, DiNubile said athletes "can do surprisingly well."

 

So...it depends on precisely how serious Roy's situation is, which is still to be determined.

I was told that everything had been determined, by a pretty notable S2 doctor/medical analyst.