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firefly
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1/27/2011  10:49 PM
I hear people talking about him like he's done for good or at best comes back like T-Mac. Was it a game injury? Chronic? Seems strange totally abandoning a guy that was a top 10 player in the NBA a year ago.
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1/27/2011  10:56 PM
I read that he has no cartilage in his knees, is their an operation for that? Artificial cartilage?
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1/27/2011  11:02 PM
I think you mean microfracture surgery. It does not have a high success rate for pro athletes. See Houston, Allan and many others.

Is that what happened to him? Chronic knee damage? There are some good examples of people coming back from knee surgery, even microfracture. Not sure why everyone is totally writing him off already then. Probably worth giving him a chance to rehab and get back in it, however remote the chances of success.

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1/27/2011  11:03 PM    LAST EDITED: 1/27/2011  11:03 PM
GustavBahler wrote:I read that he has no cartilage in his knees, is their an operation for that? Artificial cartilage?

He is thinking to go for some new kind of operation... Some artifisial or animals cartrige... Like last chance.

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1/27/2011  11:06 PM
arkrud wrote:
GustavBahler wrote:I read that he has no cartilage in his knees, is their an operation for that? Artificial cartilage?

He is thinking to go for some new kind of operation... Some artifisial or animals cartrige... Like last chance.

Hope it works out for him, hasn't been in the league very long to have this crop up.

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1/27/2011  11:24 PM
He's got no meniscus in his knee. I'm pretty sure it was chronic because knee concerns is what had him fall to the sixth overall pick instead of a top selection
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1/27/2011  11:26 PM    LAST EDITED: 1/27/2011  11:31 PM
GustavBahler wrote:
arkrud wrote:
GustavBahler wrote:I read that he has no cartilage in his knees, is their an operation for that? Artificial cartilage?

He is thinking to go for some new kind of operation... Some artifisial or animals cartrige... Like last chance.

Hope it works out for him, hasn't been in the league very long to have this crop up.


I think he has decent shot of still being effective because his game isn't overly reliant on athleticism. Still, Portland is paying Roy a lot of money. Is his contract insured for the knees?
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1/27/2011  11:27 PM
The thing about the players with successful microfracture surgery is that most had problems on one knee, not both. They say Roy has almost no cartilage left on either knee. That makes it tough to compensate and it wears down the player even faster. There seems to be a building concensus that he will never be the same player he was ever again. What hurts him even more is that he has had trouble accepting his diminishing role. He had some run ins with the coach over playing time and his "role". At one point Portland was actually going to try to play him only the 1st half of games and he took that personal.

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1/27/2011  11:31 PM
nyvector16 wrote:The thing about the players with successful microfracture surgery is that most had problems on one knee, not both. They say Roy has almost no cartilage left on either knee. That makes it tough to compensate and it wears down the player even faster. There seems to be a building concensus that he will never be the same player he was ever again. What hurts him even more is that he has had trouble accepting his diminishing role. He had some run ins with the coach over playing time and his "role". At one point Portland was actually going to try to play him only the 1st half of games and he took that personal.

Like a wise man once said: "A man has got to know his limitations."

I think Kenyon Martin is the only guy to come back from microfracture surgery on both knees and he has struggled. I don't know the extent of the damage to Martin's knees do you know if it is similar?
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1/28/2011  6:51 AM
CrushAlot wrote:
nyvector16 wrote:The thing about the players with successful microfracture surgery is that most had problems on one knee, not both. They say Roy has almost no cartilage left on either knee. That makes it tough to compensate and it wears down the player even faster. There seems to be a building concensus that he will never be the same player he was ever again. What hurts him even more is that he has had trouble accepting his diminishing role. He had some run ins with the coach over playing time and his "role". At one point Portland was actually going to try to play him only the 1st half of games and he took that personal.

Like a wise man once said: "A man has got to know his limitations."

I think Kenyon Martin is the only guy to come back from microfracture surgery on both knees and he has struggled. I don't know the extent of the damage to Martin's knees do you know if it is similar?

Didn't Amare have it on both?

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1/28/2011  7:29 AM
joec32033 wrote:
CrushAlot wrote:
nyvector16 wrote:The thing about the players with successful microfracture surgery is that most had problems on one knee, not both. They say Roy has almost no cartilage left on either knee. That makes it tough to compensate and it wears down the player even faster. There seems to be a building concensus that he will never be the same player he was ever again. What hurts him even more is that he has had trouble accepting his diminishing role. He had some run ins with the coach over playing time and his "role". At one point Portland was actually going to try to play him only the 1st half of games and he took that personal.

Like a wise man once said: "A man has got to know his limitations."

I think Kenyon Martin is the only guy to come back from microfracture surgery on both knees and he has struggled. I don't know the extent of the damage to Martin's knees do you know if it is similar?

Didn't Amare have it on both?

naw, just his left knee, i believe.

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Totally OT: What exactly is wrong with Brandon Roy?

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