mrKnickShot wrote:Bippity10 wrote:Bonn: don't worry to much about age and knee problems. Tons of basketball players have knee problems at an early age. I had severe knee problems from age 18-24. At 25-30 I was playing more basketball than I ever had in my life and had no problems. This is basketball. This was a ridiculously tight schedule. Can't get worked up everytime somebody has some aches.
Wow Bip ... Its interesting that you say that and actually I WAS kinda worried.
I had knee problems from 16 - 24. Doctors told me that it was part of the growth process and that once they are done, they need a few years to settle in. After that, I was/am playing basketball for 15 years with no pain/issues at all.
So I coached high school, prep school and did personal training for college basketball players. Knee issues were par for the course. A lot of times you have fast growing kids dealing with growth issues like you did. You also have kids that may have had problems that were easily solvable but never went to the doctor(because none of us do at that age) and then the problem gets worse into their early 20's. Another reason why it's prevalent is that so many of us when we were young would get out of bed, put on our shoes, pick up a basketball and start playing. NOt once thinking about stretching,eating properly or taking care of our bodies. Sometimes it takes until 25 plus to start figuring that stuff out. Lin's knee problems could be anything from the troubles of a condensed schedule to much worse. But the much worse is probably the least likely. Worst case scenario is he has knee surgery and is back a year later as good as new like millions of other basketball players.
