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And a lot of curiosity about his knee. The fluid and knee stiffness can be due to the flaking off of cartilage, according to medical experts. Anthony said he can’t get an answer on what the injury is exactly, but so far he has not been told offseason surgery is needed. He had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee after the 2010-11 season to clean out loose cartilage.

“There’s no pain at all. Just stiffness,’’ Anthony said at San Francisco’s Olympic Club. “Nobody really can give me an exact answer on it. Because there’s no pain or ligament damage. Just fluid in the back of the knee that’s prevented me from hyperextending my leg. Nothing of that nature. None of that. No surgery.

“Just a matter of getting tight in the back of the knee. Nothing in the front of the knee. No pain. No soreness. Just some irritation.’’

Anthony said he still has some swelling.

“I used this week to really try to get healthy, get my legs back, get the soreness out,’’ Anthony said. “I don’t think [the fluid] is completely gone. But with the rest, sitting out a couple of days, getting treatment, I definitely benefitted.’’

In light of Amar’e Stoudemire’s impending knee surgery, coach Mike Woodson has said he wants to keep Anthony to 35 minutes, tops, the rest of the season. Anthony didn’t sound crazy about the idea. Stoudemire was on a 30-minute cap, but went slightly over it last week. It may be no coincidence that after a three-game stretch in which Stoudemire set season highs in minutes in two of them, he came up lame.

“I don’t know,’’ Anthony said. “We got to see how the game goes. If I come back to play, I come back to play. If he wants to limit my minutes, I’m all for it. But when I come back to play, I come back to play.’’

Woodson won’t fight it.

“I would like to do that,’’ Woodson said. “These guys, you put minute restrictions, they get a little testy. I’ll kind of do what he wants to do.’

Like the Suns have some magic Shaman?

Melo has been like this since christmas. He'll be fine. The fact its public knowledge is worrysome because in KnickLand when the news is out its usually a bad sign.

Anyone mention how good Tyson has held up this year? Shump returned? Knicks staff in NYC has access to great resources. Dolan is a moron but he seems to invest in many aspects to conditioning and technology. I can't imagine Dr Callahan and the resouces available can't do a good job.

nearly half the roster is over 35, the oldest team in the history of the NBA.

Your gonna injuries. Melo is the only one im concerned with. Stat was defective when he walked thru the door. Camby is old, Sheed was retired, and Kidd is 40 and over played. Shump had a bad knee in college and was hurt early last season. The ACL happens to others.

If you ask me, Dolan is the one that needs better medical attention.

The schedule still looks greenish to me. No 7-8 game streaks of red. No huge falloffs. A few blowouts that truly standout, but most of them we did to others.

3 blowout losses.
8 blowout wins.

I kinda like that math, personally.
I still hate losing to DLee though.

While good players and capable of putting together stretches of great play they were more than likely to decline than sustain or elevate their level of play during a full season as Knicks. Has anyone noticed Melo is getting injured more often and missing more games since acquiring him....Amar'e hadn't missed many games last 2yrs in Phx but has missed a near full season since we've acquired him as a Knick. Some of their performances have been downright awful. We also assembled teams around them with added pressure for them to perform above their means in terms of minutes and workload.

Add to the fact our medical/training staff isn't at the top of the league of getting players to recover quickly from or properly diagnose and/or help prevent injuries with high quality conditioning regimens and maintenance treatments.

While I'm sure Melo and Amar'e have done the best in their mind to prepare and recover from painful injury situations, this season has been PAINFUL to watch overall and that's with a winning record.

The Med staff is suspect and always have been, but woodson is such a old school coach with old school habits, he's more to blame then anyone..

Were so deep we play 8/9 guys, a 6th man thats 2nd on the team in minutes played.

3G4G wrote:What we did was acquire players who had lots of mileage on them, namely Amar'e/Melo/Chandler. They had already given the best they've had of their careers to the rest of the league.

While good players and capable of putting together stretches of great play they were more than likely to decline than sustain or elevate their level of play during a full season as Knicks. Has anyone noticed Melo is getting injured more often and missing more games since acquiring him....Amar'e hadn't missed many games last 2yrs in Phx but has missed a near full season since we've acquired him as a Knick. Some of their performances have been downright awful. We also assembled teams around them with added pressure for them to perform above their means in terms of minutes and workload.

Add to the fact our medical/training staff isn't at the top of the league of getting players to recover quickly from or properly diagnose and/or help prevent injuries with high quality conditioning regimens and maintenance treatments.

While I'm sure Melo and Amar'e have done the best in their mind to prepare and recover from painful injury situations, this season has been PAINFUL to watch overall and that's with a winning record.

very well put..

jrodmc wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:We defintely agree on the last point. Lost my favorite knick for $100mil uninsured Amare frickin Stoudamire. Only the knicks

How could someone who couldn't defend you be your favorite Knick? Just asking. Personally, I liked Jorts better. Hard nosed, rebounds and the occasional three. Great. I like guys who can't manage to stay in the league.

3G4G wrote:What we did was acquire players who had lots of mileage on them, namely Amar'e/Melo/Chandler. They had already given the best they've had of their careers to the rest of the league.

While good players and capable of putting together stretches of great play they were more than likely to decline than sustain or elevate their level of play during a full season as Knicks. Has anyone noticed Melo is getting injured more often and missing more games since acquiring him....Amar'e hadn't missed many games last 2yrs in Phx but has missed a near full season since we've acquired him as a Knick. Some of their performances have been downright awful. We also assembled teams around them with added pressure for them to perform above their means in terms of minutes and workload.

I'm not trying to pick a fight here, but given this logic, please explain the Celtics and their lone chip to me. And please don't say 'Rondo', because he's been injured almost as much as any of the others.

i THINK It is simple.. they were all playing near the top of their games.. not so much individually, but as a team.. and when you look at it.. garnet was much healthier than amare.. Pierce just a better overall player than carmelo.. we have nothing close on this team to what ray allen was then.. and when you add in guys like rondo.. well it is easy to see the difference.. And yes he was a difference maker, look at the finals box scores, he had a 16 assist game one time and then a 6 steal game another.. add in young guys like perkins, leon powe, tony Allen, and james posey, they had enough good young talent that produced..