I Hope They Are Not Sacrificing Dwight Howard's Career

Doctors vs BBS speculators!

Fight to the death!

 

Dwight's peak is done. Best to make full use of whatever he has right now instead of postponing to next season.

The trainers, doctors, physios wouldn't give him the green light if he has not recovered sufficiently.

 

He's paid to play. I don't care what he does after the Rockets just what he does while he is here. If his knees must be shot for that championship so be it. I'd rather sacrifice Mr. McHale to please the basketball gods but Les & Co. are locked in on him.

 

What you say may or may not be true. But why would a fan know the exact situation about his health or be able to determine his future? Wouldn't this question be posed to his doctor instead?

Also, I don't know what went behind the scenes with Yao. But I'm not really sure holding him out following injury was the reason for ending his career so much as a 7-5 guy has only so many minutes before physics catch up. Rockets played him too many minutes. Chinese team played him too much. It was more inevitability than anything else.

 

He's just tired.

 

Why don't we just cut him?

 

I know doctors who are BBS speculators.....It's mad, I tell you! MAD!!!

 

This is Dwight's career. In the now. James Harden is the best player he's ever played with and Howard isn't getting any younger. If he doesn't play now he's wasting his career.

 

wasnt the original prognosis 8 weeks? It's been 8 weeks

 

He wouldn't be playing if he wasn't ready.

 

He's gonna be 30 next year, and sitting out while his teammate is playing championship level basketball. You have a ridiculous definition of the word "sacrifice."

 

Bill Walton? Derrick Rose? Yao Ming?

what about Brandon Roy? or Greg Oden?


Sometimes it isn't about a player "coming back too soon". Being able to stay healthy is a talent in professional sports. And, unfortunately, for some players they continue to get injured no matter how much time they take off. Derrick Rose had been cleared by the doctors to play but still waited until after that season was over to "make sure he was 100%" and then the next season he got hurt again.

I don't think Dwight is to that point yet. I hope not. But if the doctors say he is good to go, then we should trust that and let him play.

 

Given the history of corporate management, its easy to be very skeptical... too easy.

 

He played earlier this year before he was ready...



That being said, OP is not understanding nature of injury, at least based on what the doctor said. It's not a cartilage issue, so he doesn't need to sit out more time to grow more.

 

From everything I've read it's a pain management issue, not structural damage. Yao actually didn't have pain in his foot, it was structural damage. The same with KD I think. The whole reason the Rockets are bringing him back is the amount of pain he's been feeling post playing has been reduced. It's why I would even be a bit shocked if he was on a minutes restriction. It's more of can Dwight deal with it or not. By no means does it seem like they are rushing him back, they are just trying to use what is left of the season to tune him up for the postseason.

 

Bone on bone?

 

Dwight only has a limited amount of games left before he dies. Need to use them wisely.

 

Nah breh. They patched it up with fix-a-knee spray. It contains teen cartilage and rejuvenates right on spot. Mchale knows when he should be ready, not dwight, But Mchale

 

Wait what now? Is this a make-a-wish situation now?