Though as someone said earlier it may be better if Melo is not the same player and can just be a supporting cast guy to younger guys ... But can anyone envision that? It's not like he's got a passing game.

Melo is such an idiot. I hate him. His brand is crap too.

I've heard from someone that works as jordan brand that even mj hates him and la la. His sneaker is the worst selling on jordan brand. Mj looks at him as wasted cost.

fishmike wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

Dr. Maharam expressed optimism that Anthony will return from surgery the same player he was before without any physical interruptions.

“His career will be fine,” he said. “This is absolutely not a career-ending issue. I would say to Knicks fans: Don’t worry. He’ll be all right. He’s making a good decision to do it now so he can play next year when he gets some good players around him. It’s a good time for him to be hurt because he’s not going to get them to the championship this year. So get fixed and hopefully Jackson will bring in some people.”

Dr. Maharam described Anthony’s condition universally as “jumper’s knee” and involves inflammation of the tendon, during which the “fibers don’t line up parallel anymore,” causing the tendons to swell and become weaker.

The purpose of a debridement procedure, he said, is to scrape and smooth out the tendon “which makes platelets (parts of the blood) come out to your body’s own stem cells to heal it. And you need the six months to heal it again for it to be a strong tendon again without these little knots in it.”

Dr. Maharam said that Anthony likely didn’t exacerbate the injury by playing on it — including 30 minutes in Sunday’s All-Star Game — even though the Knicks star said he’s been experiencing pain since late October.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/doctor-carmelo-anthony-8-months-article-1.2120911

why listen to a doctor when you have posters on this site to set you straight? Melo jihadists unite! Good post crush. I was looking for some real info of the procedure as Ive worked through knee issues of my own and played a lot of ball through that. This whole thing will be a blessing in disguise.

THIS^^^^^

Seriously, we got posters who have taken their ball and stomped off this site claiming they are done here....Now they are scrambling back to post a supposed..."I told you so...." Why let the facts get in the way of a poster trying to 1up the next guy.

anrst wrote:Hopefully he gets a lot of hgh and roids and it's all good

Though as someone said earlier it may be better if Melo is not the same player and can just be a supporting cast guy to younger guys ... But can anyone envision that? It's not like he's got a passing game.

Melo is such an idiot. I hate him. His brand is crap too.

I've heard from someone that works as jordan brand that even mj hates him and la la. His sneaker is the worst selling on jordan brand. Mj looks at him as wasted cost.

Anyone who buys a pair of Melo sneakers is a Moron. Are those things even selling? I've yet to see one

NY_KnicksPR ‏@NY_KnicksPR · 3h3 hours ago
Carmelo Anthony had successful left knee surgery today.

anrst wrote:Hopefully he gets a lot of hgh and roids and it's all good

Though as someone said earlier it may be better if Melo is not the same player and can just be a supporting cast guy to younger guys ... But can anyone envision that? It's not like he's got a passing game.

Melo is such an idiot. I hate him. His brand is crap too.

I've heard from someone that works as jordan brand that even mj hates him and la la. His sneaker is the worst selling on jordan brand. Mj looks at him as wasted cost.

Get a new friend with good info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Melo_Line

The Air Melo Line of shoes is made by Nike, under the Air Jordan brand. The Air Melo's are the signature shoes of NBA star Carmelo Anthony.[1] Currently there are 10 different shoes out. The first two shoes made, the Air Jordan Melo 1.5, and the Air Jordan Melo 5.5, were not completely Carmelo's own design. They took other Air Jordan shoes and made them into an entirely new shoe.

The Air Jordan Melo 1.5's made an appearance in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, which Ned wanted after he found them in the Lost and Found. The shoes sold so well that in 2006 Air Jordan decided to give Carmelo his very own shoe, with its very own design. The shoe is called the Air Melo M3. Carmelo Anthony's shoe sales are third only to the Air Jordan retro series and the Air Jordan XXII.For the 06-07 season Carmelo was given his 4th "Melo" shoe, the Melo M4. The shoe was his second signature shoe that went on his own design and not off any other type of Air Jordans. Carmelo Anthony has said that he will have a new signature shoe out called AIR MELO M5 RAD/SHARK, this was apart from the Air Jordan naming competition where Carmelo Anthony picked the name himself. Since then he has released the Melo M5,Melo M6, Melo M7, Melo M8, Melo M9, Melo M10 and Melo 11.[2]

2013 Forbes:

Nike is James’ biggest marketing partner and helps put him on top of the NBA’s top-earners from endorsements. Nike re-signed James in 2010 in a deal that James’ business manager Maverick Carter calls “more of a joint venture.” Forbes estimates that James earns $20 million annually, including royalties from the Beaverton, Ore footwear giant.

The second best-selling active NBA pitchman is Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. His Kobe 8 signature shoes sold $50 million at U.S. stores last year. Bryant has been part of the Nike family since 2003. The 15-time All-Star was an Adidas athlete for the first six years of his career. Bryant’s shoe sales in the U.S. were down in 2012, but he is the NBA’s biggest star in China and his Nike sneakers sell briskly in Asia.

Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks ranks third with U.S. retail sales of $40 million for his Jordan Melo M9. Anthony is part of the Jordan Brand roster, which also includes Blake Griffin, Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook.

DrAlphaeus wrote:

fishmike wrote:

DrAlphaeus wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:The problem IMO is that giving him the largest contract in the league through year SIXTEEN was a bad gamble even when he was healthy. Having a serious knee injury with a long rehab period only compounds the issue.

It drives me crazy to think about Melo and his massive contract when he was throwing Jeremy Lin's contract offer under the bus as "ridiculous".

Now two years later at the trade deadline we have:
- our top salary-getter is out for 6 months after playing injured for 2 months of meaningless ball in a season on track to be our worst ever
- we just bought out the guy with the second-highest salary (Stat) so he can play with Dirk
- the 3rd (Bargs) and 4th highest (Jose) salary-getters are admittedly untradeable, with Jose on the books into 2017
- and the guys right after then on the salary spreadsheet going into this season — Smith and Dalembert — were traded and waived

Whose contract was ridiculous again?

Absolutely disgusted.

It was a stupid comment by Melo and he should have kept his mouth shut, but he's a 100% correct. Lin is making $15mm this year and cant crack the starting lineup on one of the worst teams in the league and he's stinking off the bench also. Lin had a good first year in Hou and has been terrible since.

I don't know, dude. With all of the ridiculous contracts I laid out, why did Melo only call out this one? Because Lin — while mediocre elsewhere — was a great fit with D'Antoni's system and the players we had then, and that fact devalued Melo and would have gotten in the way of him getting his payday. With a bloody player option. Unreal. But "Phil is in control"...

And now we have this other system and a coach who's never even run it before professionally, only the guys on 10-days seem to have a clue how to run it, and our star played a bunch of meaningless games instead of getting a jump start on rehab, just so he can be a host? He could have hosted on crutches.

I shouldn't give a crap, but the hypocrisy makes me nutty.

nixluva wrote:From everything they've said it was Patellar Tendinosis. The degree of the problem we can't know. It's not considered a career threatening surgery but you never really know. It's done often and is successful in most cases. That's really all we can know at this point. Now it's up to Melo and his dedication to rehab and conditioning. He's got a lot of painful work ahead of him to get back to full strength. This is a serious issue only in that there is a risk of Melo not getting all the way back. It may not be a very high risk but there's always a risk in any surgery. People need to relax and stop making more out of this than is necessary at this point.

Who is arguing that it is career-ending? The argument is about the failure to shut Melo down back when they first started yapping about it, and the estimated time of recovery having ramifications on the start of next season. Because you know if we start the season with a losing record, there's a big chance we have another crap season without another lottery pick to look forward to.

Not getting Melo all the way back is a valid concern, especially since we know his decision-making isn't the most forward-thinking. God forbid he rushes to get into shape for training camp and suffers another set-back.

And most importantly who is going to want to come here to play with an INJURED Melo?

gunsnewing wrote:I'm only asking because I don't believe anything the knicks and their doctors say. So If he is an outside doctor with nothing to do with the Knicks then I will take his word

How can you not trust the Knicks when it comes to injuries?! When have they lied to us before?!?!

anrst wrote:Hopefully he gets a lot of hgh and roids and it's all good

Though as someone said earlier it may be better if Melo is not the same player and can just be a supporting cast guy to younger guys ... But can anyone envision that? It's not like he's got a passing game.

Melo is such an idiot. I hate him. His brand is crap too.

I've heard from someone that works as jordan brand that even mj hates him and la la. His sneaker is the worst selling on jordan brand. Mj looks at him as wasted cost.

You sound like a school child or an office gossip.

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