[Ch 2] McGrady could be out for season (UPDATE: MRI reveals no damage)

no it doesn't...when did j-kidd have his done? microfracture is not a career ender.

 

emjohn...u do know that the meniscus is cartilage....right?

 

robbie...you do know that McGrady has his, right?

 

he has a part of it. the bald spot is where the meniscus has worn or been torn away. the poster you quoted got excited when he said that it was completely gone but that doesn't exactly make him an idiot.

 

sucks to be yao ming right now
RA's gona play him more and the D's gona murder him
his knees probably won't hold up

 

You may be right, although I pray that you're wrong.

 

Man of steel...I mean" Man of cotton"

 

amazing

 

All right, be nice please

 

He had his done in the summer of 04. Coincidentally his numbers steadily declined over the years since then. This is most noticeable in his defense. He has had a much harder time staying in front of his opponents and driving to the hoop for easy lay-ups like he used to do way back when.

Another thing is Jkidd never relied upon his athleticism like Tmac did. Ever. To say that Mcgrady's careers over may be a bit overboard at this point and time. But it's not too far fetched. That's the reality and sometimes reality sucks.

 

Oh gosh
Maybe not too bad.
We have Von Wafer~

 

he is not correct....but t-mac must rehab properly to recover from this. if he halfasses it then he is done. if he rehabs like yao does then he will be perfectly fine. there is no reason why he can't return to the athleticism of 07-08.

 

Feigen's reporting that T-Mac is likely not out for the season.

And again, didn't anyone else reading the Channel 2 article notice that all of the stuff about "microfracture" and "season ending" seems to be coming out of T-Mac's camp?

 

he is just getting old after 04....reasonable decline, not really due to the surgery.

i think amare is fine after the surgery..but he is young. T-mac's age may be a serous issue during rehab if he is gonna have the surgery.

 

Last year, Yao was obviously hurting (still played well, but it should be easy to tell if a player is in pain), and they didn't find a stress fracture til late February. A stress fracture develops over time. With all the money the Rockets have, can't they do a bone scan, x-ray, or MRI anytime they want to?? But no, they had to wait until Yao said the pain was unbearable. How do you treat our most important player on the court and financially like that?


Fast forward to this year, and Tmac had 2 surgeries. His shoulder became arthritic after surgery, and he was told he would need another surgery, therefore he couldn't lift weights. Then his arthroscopic surgery, which usually doesn't take long to heal from, didn't heal after 5 months. Everybody assumed Tmac didn't do the rehab in the offseason. It took Dwayne Wade telling the Houston Chronicle that the same thing happened to him last year, to get a few people off of Tmac's back. Doctors continued to tell him to play on his knee.

Then the Rockets allowed Tmac to rehab his knee, and he said it felt good, but who knows how much pressure he was under to come back after the 2 weeks. Granted, he did look better and a little bit more comfortable, but he wasn't the same Tmac we saw even last year. Not even close. If you watched the last few games, with the exception of the dunk on Tyrus Thomas (off his right knee), Tmac was a jump shooter and a passer. He couldn't do much more. His defense improved, but he was still struggling.

Through all of that, people (especially on this board) called Tmac a little cry baby, who doesn't hustle, who can't and won't play through pain, accused him of faking his injuries (which is just wrong on so many levels), and then called him the cancer of the team, even though he had carried us for 3 years here in Houston with little help.

Then, in Milwakee, the missed dunk happened. That should've been a red flag to people everywhere, and I'm sure thats why there was an MRI on his knee today. However, people just say, he's another Steve Francis or Penny Hardaway. Sure, he had declined physically, but I couldn't believe it could be that, if he was healthy, there had to be an injury. Tmac is one of the most athletic players the NBA has ever seen. Those kind of players dont just lose athleticism like that in a matter of months. It takes years.

Now, most of the people who wrongfully called Tmac all kinds of names are feeling pretty bad now. I bet many people wouldn't be able to do their jobs 5 days a week without any cartilidge in their knee. Its tough and painful. For those who have to do that, I feel bad that yall do it and I praise yall. But its a shame that it takes this to make people realize that Tmac was playing through a lot of pain. He is a competitor, he does care about the team, he knows he's 0-7 in the playoffs. He wanted to prove that he can lead a team, and unfortunately he won't get that chance this year.

Now about the medical staff of the Rockets, this is ridiculous. They allowed Yao to play through a lot of pain before they took a bone scan of his foot, and for a guy that big and important, they should be monitoring him much more closely.

Then they basically perform 2 unsuccessful surgeries on Tmac, and an unsuccessful surgery on Battier over the summer. Tmac ends up with an arthritic shoulder which will require another surgery and his knee ends up without any cartilige and may require microfracture surgery.

I know the medical field is very tough and complicated due to the uniqueness of each patient, but this is getting pretty ridiculous. How in the world does Phoenix keep Shaq, a 7'1 350 lb giant who's had a long history of injuries healthy at age 37!!?? while the Rockets can't keep their star players who are relatively young, healthy. I just don't understand it.

I do hope that those who criticized Tmac for not playing through pain or being a wimp or not giving effort do apologize and realize that these guys, although they make much money, do kill their bodies for fans and the team. If you want to be angry about players making so much money, stop going to the games, stop watching the games, stop buying their merchandise, tell the mayor to get rid of the team, because we as fans are their main source of income. If I got offered millions of dollars to play a game that I love, then I'll accept that in a heartbeat and so would all of you, so don't blame yall criticism on the 22 million dollars Tmac makes. Just admit that yall were wrong and that TMac is actually a lot tougher than most people thought he was.

 

Unless you know something I don't, the bare spot would be within the articulating surface of his knee, not a tear of the lateral or medial menisci.

And maybe I'm expecting to much of the BBS IQ, but to say McGrady has "no cartilage" in his left knee or that he has "no meniscus" is absolutely idiotic. I'd assume he lost his ACL, PCL, LCL, and MCL as well?

 

how is anything out of t-mac's camp? maybe you can point to exactly what you are talking about because the article seems to be pretty straightforward.

 

from Friedman's twitter:

"MRI reveals no change in left knee. T-Mac will seek additional medical opinions in coming days and will not play tonight."



Earlier report was from T-Mac's crew, trainer, whatever...not the Rockets.

The drama continues.

 

Man, I hope someone get sue over this if the report of missing cartilage is correct. How the fock can three specialist doctor miss that? Also everyone in our med staff need to be fired. This is some BS!!!!!!!!!

 

Thats what I'm a little scare of that Tracy might not want to go through all the hard work to get back on the court. It just might be a little too much for him at his age and this time in his career. If this was a 3 or 4 years ago I wouldn't be worry about it because he was still a superstar and younger and he believed that he could play with the best players in the world. I just don't know if Tracy has anything left and its really sad because hes only 29 when most players pass their prime at about 32.