Woo... D Lee will be back in time to lead us during the playoffs

Posted by SupremeCommander:

I think the Knicks medical staff sucks. They're constantly way off.

Ya think....


just as bad as the last med staff..es

High ankle sprains don't take this long to heal, so I'm also very glad to here its just a bone bruise.

We got no craw. Lee, or Q......
So tell me what the **** are we supposed to do? (that was for you DJ, respect to the blast master KRS-1)

You all saw the injury. Do you think you'd even be looking in the area of a Bone bruise? I mean come on, most would think Ankle sprain. The only thing that I can remember was a brief comment by one of the Knick announcers who said that Lee was actually kicked. So that would explain the Bruise. It could also have been a combination injury. Both a High ankle sprain and the Bone Bruise. I wouldn't automatically blame the medical staff for not catching this. With all the money they have. You know they did MRI's and such. That's why you get 2nd opinions. Sometimes just taking a different approach to diagnosis can lead you in the right direction.

Posted by Cookdcokehop:

BALKMAN TIME

Amen to that, bro.

Bad news for Lee

Knick forward's ankle worse than originally thought

BY FRANK ISOLA
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Wednesday, March 14th 2007, 4:00 AM

The original diagnosis for David Lee's leg injury was an ankle sprain that would keep him out "days not weeks." But yesterday Lee's status changed dramatically when the second-year forward revealed that he could be sidelined until the final week of the regular season with a possible stress fracture in his right leg.

"It's something between a bad bone bruise and a stress fracture," Lee said following yesterday's practice in Greenburgh. "I don't believe it's going to be a full stress fracture. It's more going to be along the lines of a stress reaction, something similar to a bad bone bruise, and it's just going to be time that is going to heal."

On Monday, Lee was examined by Dr. David Porter, a renowned foot and ankle specialist in Indianapolis. A consultant for the Super Bowl champion Colts, Dr.Porter informed Lee that he should be ready for the "last couple of games of the regular season, and the playoffs are a definite." The Knicks play their final regular-season game on April 18 in Charlotte. Lee said Porter was providing a conservative time table.

"Personally, I don't think it's going to take that long, but only time will tell," Lee said. "The important thing is I'm not going to be able to hurt it any further. So if I come back in two weeks and it feels great to play then it feels great to play. There aren't any restrictions on when we can play."

Lee sustained the injury during the third quarter of a Feb.23 win over Milwaukee when he landed on Andrew Bogut's foot. At the time, Lee and the Knicks medical staff were optimistic that the injury wasn't serious and that Lee would return in a matter of days. However, when the Knicks face the Raptors in Toronto tonight, Lee will have missed eight straight games. Oddly enough, Lee blames himself for believing that he would return quickly.

"I put this on my shoulders for trying to be optimistic because this is new territory for me because I told you I haven't missed a game since high school," he said.

"The doctors told me it was going to be days not weeks. That was their best look at it initially. As we've gone along it hasn't improved as quickly as we had hoped. Some injuries do that. With some injuries they tell you two months and it is a couple of days. Some injures go the opposite way. So I can't blame them for that."

In fact, Lee went out of his way during his 10-minute medical update to heap unsolicited praise on the team doctors. He even suggested that Dr. Porter praised the Knicks' medical staff for the work it has done even though Porter's report was, in Lee's estimation, "completely different."

Lee was obviously coached before meeting with reporters to avoid questioning the Knicks' medical staff. Since the resignation of former team physician Dr. Norman Scott, the Knicks' front office has become ultra-sensitive to any questions or public criticisms regarding player care.

Players, namely Marcus Camby and Patrick Ewing, and the media occasionally questioned Scott's methods, but Scott was usually given the forum to explain the origin of an injury and the course of treatment. The Knicks' current medical team is not given that same freedom.

However, Lee revealed that one of the Knicks' physicians called to "apologize" because the injury hasn't healed as quickly as the team had hoped.

"Then I said, 'if you told me when I came down on it that it was going to be four to six weeks, I said I would have laughed at you,'" Lee said. "There was no point in telling me that because I wouldn't believe it."

Jared Jeffries has played well during Lee's absence, and yesterday's news will mean more playing time for Malik Rose and rookie Renaldo Balkman. The Knicks are already without Jamal Crawford, who had season-ending ankle surgery and Quentin Richardson could miss his second straight game due to back spasms.

The Knicks are 29-34 and fighting for a playoff berth. If they get in, Lee is confident that he will be around to experience it.

"I'm the energy guy for this team," he said. "When I come back I'm going to be even more rested and be able to provide even more energy for this team."

Marv that is the story and it wont change unless all the doctors are morons. There is no break at all. Have faith