Honestly if im him, i'd get the surgery. Of course that would mess up the season but at the same time the guy needs to get healthy instead of rushing back for a probable 1st round exit rally. Both of those bigs have their futures to consider without rushing back. You see Bynum decided to play through it and it cost him half of this year already (which is ironically a contract year for him, same as Dwight)
He should just have surgery and get ready for next year and piss off the lakers. After all the crap he gets this should be his way of returning the favor for the trades, benching and constant rumors.
Remember the 05-06 Houston Rockets, where t-mac and yao were constantly injured and the rockets suffered bad because of it. Well this is exactly what's happenining to the Lakers, and I for one am very glad that something like this happened to them. The cockiness I got from Laker fans prior to the season was too much, and I told them that watchout Karma will come and bite them in the ass. And lo and behold, they must have had the most injuries in the league starting with Nash. Good riddance, now the misery will be complete once the Lakers miss the playoffs.
I actually remember the Rockets being so decimated they had to start adding D league players to the team to fill the roster. Shane Rafer Tmac Yao, etc... were all injured or had off season surgery. That was a horrible year.
Lol kobe needs to relax.. He needs to come to reality... And this qoute on howard actually makes me apperciate howard a bit more. "He just wants people to like him. He doesn't want to let anyone down, and that gets him away from what he should be doing." Doesnt want to let anyone down. Nothing wrong with that
I honestly don't think Dwight will be healthy for a long stretch again unless he is taking steroids or something.
Kobe is bringing the heat in public because he and Dwight aren't on the same page. He knows Dwight isn't going to risk anything just to win a few more games in a lost season. If this public dialogue between them continues to the end, I'll reverse course and predict Dwight will leave. They are teammates and the matter should be handled behind closed doors. The Lakers are so dysfunctional it's laughable. Dwight may force a SnT come summertime.
I am surprised Kobe is so bluntly asking Dwight to risk his body and future earnings because Kobe is getting older. "We don't have three years, we have this year." Well, Kobe, guess what: YOU have this year. Dwight actually has the rest of his career to think about.
New cba wont allow sign and trade Kobe thinks riding people or throwing them under the bus is always the answer He's gonna give Dwight svg flashbacks
I didn't realize that provision kicked in so soon. It's gonna be hard for Dwight to leave the Lakers. Hopefully he sits a while and Kobe continues calling him out.
and it got us Rudy Gay while the Lakers, should they not make the playoffs, wont be having their draft pick
no... at his best he was a second tier star but yeah he is still one of the best role players in the league when utilized correctly
What's just plain STUPID here is that "playing through an injury" is EXACTLY why Gasol tore his PF and will miss 2 months. He admitted that he had fasciitis all season, which almost certainly means he was constantly getting steroidal anti-inflammatory injections to stay out there. So guess what - he did the two DUMBEST things you could do with plantar fasciitis: keep stressing it with high impact activity and take multiple steroid injections at the same time. People don't realize this, but shots like cortisol do you a disservice long term - the pain is nature's way of forcing you to lay off an injured body part, and steroid shots WEAKEN ligaments over time. So Kobe's advice to Howard is to go down the exact same path that Gasol did. DUMB DUMB DUMB. But this has been a problem in the NBA, NFL, etc forever. Coaches and fans and even teammates have no time or patience for guys that get hurt during the season.
My understanding of the new sign and trade rules is that it doesn't allow lux tax teams to receive players in return, but they can give players away. For example, if say, Chris Paul wanted to join the Lakers, he can't do it with a sign and trade. But if the Lakers wanted to trade Howard to a team with cap space ( hint hint), they can.
