http://sports.yahoo.com/news/dwight-howard-hopes-to-return-on-saturday-211853222.html Hits a little too close to home. This could be huge long term if the problem truly is chronic, like he's saying. Also, is PRP just the go-to treatment now? Looks like they don't do microfractures anymore.
PRP may help with the pain for a while with rest like it did for ROY, however once you start playing BBall again it won't take long for it to start getting very sore again. There are some new procedures out but he'd likely have to take a yr off and I don't know if those procedures would stand up to the rigors of pro BBall.
Wow that's a huge blow to Houston. Then again, it seems Houston plays better when Howard isn't playing!
During the regular season, with a soft schedule, but they aren't going anywhere in the playoffs without a healthy Dwight Howard. BNM
Me either. I'm desensitized by NBA injuries now. And tbh don't really care if other players get injured anymore. Just not ours. We've been through that gauntlet already...
Shit happens, sucks for Howard but bodies break down. Us Blazer fans are like that cop who works in Detroit, we've seen so much that nothing affects us.
Wow. I thought we had a terrible history with franchise centers. We only got varying degrees of glimpses of Bowie, Sabonis, and Oden. Houston has had some in-their-prime centers that have fallen apart.
Oden ended Mutombo's career in a playoff game in Portland. [video]www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_eY-FWAb2s [/video]
Yeah, but he was already like 50 (almost as old as Oden looked) and had a long, productive career. Plus, Houston got a VERY long, VERY productive career from Hakeem - the player they took right before we took Bowie. So, fuck 'em! BNM
Yep. Ended his career during that game. We gave him a huge standing ovation and Houston fans invaded our board, thinking we were cheering that he got injured. It was stupid.
At first I thought you were making a joke that he was much older than his given age, but even then, he was like 43 when he got hurt.
