<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Robert Whaley was already in his uniform, getting ready to warm up for Wednesday night's game, when the Jazz's doctors arrived with some advice: Take it off, and forget about wearing it again for a few weeks. The nagging irritation Whaley felt in his right knee was a tear in the medial meniscus cartilage, an MRI revealed Wednesday, and surgery will be required to repair it, shelving the rookie indefinitely. "I just can't believe it," the Jazz center said. "It doesn't really hurt. It feels fine. I almost didn't say anything about it." Whaley, a second-round draft pick last June, will undergo an arthroscopic procedure today or Friday, the center said before Wednesday's game against Seattle. Doctors will not be able to estimate a recovery time until after repairing the damage, but for a player his size - Whaley is 6-foot-10 and 260 pounds - a return in less than a month appears unlikely. </div> <div align="center">Source</div>
