Posted by TMS:

i can picture it now:

NY Post reporter interviewing Knicks team physician: "Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you diagnose David Lee with a high ankle sprain a few weeks ago? Why then is he now having to undergo knee microfracture surgery?"

Team doctor: "I said 'high', didn't I?"

Post reporter: "Oh right. My bad dawg."

LOL. How the hell do you confuse an ankle sprain with a knee injury. And even if you did make an initial mistake, why does Lee have to go to Indy to find someone competent enough to get it right. Changes need to be made with the medical staff.

2nd opinion? that doesn't look good, at all!

How can anyone question the competence of Knicks head Dr, Lisa Callahan, after she diagnosed and fixed Vin Baker's heart problem? Which we all remember lead to her being anointed head Doc and Vin's resurgence as a dominant low post threat for us for many years.

What's that you say, Vin was worse than ever after she gave him a "new heart"?

Don't let details get in the way. But if we ever hear she's giving Lee a new ankle, be very afraid.

Posted by TheGame:

Posted by TMS:

why do i have an awful feeling that we'll be hearing that he'll require surgery to correct the problem & will be out for the rest of the season?

The Knicks medical staff really is not up to par.

Reason No. 76,598 why Dolan couldn't manage a Photomat.

Dr Scott, the previous head ortho guy had a huge reputation and career.

What most of you are not looking at in a microcosim is how other teams history of injuries and misteps are.

WE focus so much on the knicks we lose sight as to how the rest of the world handles problems, drafts, etc.

Its easy to be a revisionist and look back with clarity.

They call it "practicing medicine" cause its not a perfect science.

Bottom line is players are expecte to play thru injuries and get paid millions. If they are not willing, then they are in violation of the contract. Its a freaking meat market but thats the nature of pro sports all over.

Lee is not responding to treatments and likley decided to seek a specialist. Perhaps this was recommended by the team. perhaps Isiah with ihs INdy connections (coached, UI) has a doctor friend whom he wanted to see.

Either way we are blowing this way out of proportion.

Soon we can complain about his salary coming off the cap and he is washed up!

Yes and I think he will be back before the stretch run but that is a guess like everyone on this board.

Doesnt have anything to do with the ankle or a high ankle sprain. It has something to do with the bone in the calf and nothing is broke. Just something that is very hard to heal and will take time. David wants to play basketball and he can't and he is going crazy.

out of pure curiosity, why indy? is that the ankle capital of the U.S. or something?

Just another doctor that took care of Adam Vinitieri this year and David just wanted another set of eyes. The Knicks doctors havent done anything wrong just sometimes getting other ideas may speed up the recovery.

here is an update on D lee...

LEE OUT ANOTHER MONTH
By BRIAN LEWIS
March 13, 2007 -- After getting a second opinion on his sore right leg Monday, Knick forward David Lee is expected to miss another three or four weeks, after being listed as day-to-day by the team about 2 1/2 weeks ago.

Indianapolis physician Dr. David A. Porter termed it somewhere between a bone bruise and a stress fracture, an injury to what Lee said was his os perineum. It’s bad news for a team clinging to the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and their regular-season ending April 18.

"His opinion is it could be as much as 3-4 weeks before I'd start seeing action, though he's still looking at MRIs (yesterday),” Lee said. "He saw the CT scan I had as well as the X-rays, and said he'd classify it as something in-between a bone bruise and a stress fracture, something similar to a stress reaction. It's just going to be time to heal it.”

When Lee got hurt Feb. 23, the Knicks originally said he had a sprained right ankle and strained muscle, and was day-to-day. While Lee was complimentary of team Dr. Lisa Callahan and said the diagnoses were similar, he admitted there’s a big difference between a 4-6 week bone bruise and day-to-day ankle sprain.

"It is completely different, and part of that I'm going to put on my shoulders for being optimistic,” Lee said. "This is new territory for me. The doctors told me days not weeks and that was their best look at it initially, right when it happened...I can't blame them for that.”

Posted by tkf:

here is an update on D lee...

LEE OUT ANOTHER MONTH
By BRIAN LEWIS
March 13, 2007 -- After getting a second opinion on his sore right leg Monday, Knick forward David Lee is expected to miss another three or four weeks, after being listed as day-to-day by the team about 2 1/2 weeks ago.

Indianapolis physician Dr. David A. Porter termed it somewhere between a bone bruise and a stress fracture, an injury to what Lee said was his os perineum. It’s bad news for a team clinging to the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and their regular-season ending April 18.

"His opinion is it could be as much as 3-4 weeks before I'd start seeing action, though he's still looking at MRIs (yesterday),” Lee said. "He saw the CT scan I had as well as the X-rays, and said he'd classify it as something in-between a bone bruise and a stress fracture, something similar to a stress reaction. It's just going to be time to heal it.”

When Lee got hurt Feb. 23, the Knicks originally said he had a sprained right ankle and strained muscle, and was day-to-day. While Lee was complimentary of team Dr. Lisa Callahan and said the diagnoses were similar, he admitted there’s a big difference between a 4-6 week bone bruise and day-to-day ankle sprain.

"It is completely different, and part of that I'm going to put on my shoulders for being optimistic,” Lee said. "This is new territory for me. The doctors told me days not weeks and that was their best look at it initially, right when it happened...I can't blame them for that.”

And Earl was saying he should "tough it out" and play