McGrady got the MRI, the team doctors and Andrews (one of the foremost experts in the country) both agreed that there was no change. Suddenly we've gone from "no structural damage, play yourself back into shape" to "get microfracture"? As much as I hate to say it I have a sneaking suspicion that McGrady's not through being a distraction yet as much as I'd like him to just vanish.
And that's why I'm really wondering if the T-Mac saga is really over or not. I'm kind of doubtful that he'll actually go under the knife if he doesn't really need to. Here's another scenario--he drags it out and out, getting headlines and the attention he craves, until he finally announces his retirement without opting for surgery.
You are the "Last of the Mohicans" except it's like "Last of the Tmac apologists". Your ridiculous and illogical drivel in attempts to defend McLady is getting to the point where I can't take you seriously anymore. What was once a good poster is now one that is limited to making mindless points defending his so called idol. And hate to break it to you son, you couldn't have picked a worse idol.
The Rockets are the ones losing control of the situation. All they have to do is put him on the IR and that's it. They don't have to take him off ever! Teams put guys on the ir because they don't want them to play or they want younger guys to play. 2 words or letters and all this is over.
let's just hope the hoopla will soon be over. i'm tired of this bs. with or without t-mac i think this team can win it all. call me delusional, call me a homer, but i think this team with yao and artest and these role players can make it all the way with or without t-mac. maybe we make a trade, maybe we don't, but right now i still believe in this team.
If he wants a normal life when he's 60, he's going to have to have that surgery at some point. My doesn't have cartliage in his knee from a injury from the korean war. Of course, they didn't have microfracture, they just removed the cartliage. Now he's 73 and his knee hurts when he sits for a while or drive for extended times. He know about the microfracture surgery, but last time the army performed the last surgery, he almost died. He says he'll never go under or have surgery unless its life or death.
I think you may be right. Because I really don't believe he even cares about bball enough to go through MF surgery and then rehab/recover for a year. He will just call it quits well before ever doing that.
If McGrady is indeed playing everyone for fools then it's a huge gamble on his part. I believe if he calls it a season then Les if off the hook for his contract this year and insurance kicks in. Knowing insurance companies, there not going to give up there money that easily. There going to get there own specialists and doctors to examine McGrady's knee, hell they might get Andrew's re-look at his knee again since he's the foremost expert in this field. Now if they find no damage in the knee, then either McGrady doesn't get paid for the rest of the season and sits the year out anyways or he plays and gets booed every night and go down as the most hated Rox ever. And if there truly is no damage, I would counsel Les and suggest that he sues McGrady for breach of contract for the games he missed to the phantom injury.
Except there is an injury. Everybody knows it is there. It is just to what extent is it? That's what we don't know.
Feigen writes the following in his latest blog: http://blogs.chron.com/nba/2009/02/mcgrady_out_for_the_year_if_he.html [rquoter]It is difficult to think that all those doctors were wrong. Or perhaps they and the Rockets sought anything besides the microfracture option having watched McGrady struggle to come back from arthroscopy and were not eager to watch him take on that long, hard road back from microfracture surgery. It is almost as if they have not considered anything so extreme to be necessary. But McGrady said it is, so he must be heading that way. Microfracture surgery. Season over. Maybe his time in a Rockets uniform over.[/rquoter] The way he puts it, microfracture surgery may have always been an option, just a particularly extreme one that the Rockets were reluctant to pursue. Perhaps McGrady has gotten so fed up with the situation, and after talking to some doctor today (maybe he was told that regaining strength in his knee this year is unlikely) he's decided to look to surgery as his solution. Does he actually go through with it? Perhaps not. Maybe he's just frustrated, maybe he's seeking attention, maybe he's throwing that possibility out there to deflect the criticism, or maybe he's trying to ward off trades. None of those things seem out of character for him. But still, if you have a problem with your knee for which microfracture surgery is an option, albeit an extreme option, that sounds to me like its a pretty serious problem.
T-Mac's could require surgery, but there's no guarantee that by the time he's 40 that microfracture would be cutting edge. DD's been talking about new treatments where they grow cartilage in the lab. There's been experiments involving artificial cartilage for years now. My best wishes to your old man.
its been said a bunch of times already in this thread but im gonna say it again anyway. this dude was looking for a diagnosis like this. he quit on us.
Everyone has gotten what they want. McLady can finally sit down w/out being ridiculed every night and the Rockets team can finally start working together as a team. I think this is the year we get to the second round.
really? this is low. a player is hurt, he's hurt, until you go through what tmac is going through, you'll understand, till then, don't defer to other players who have had the same injury to make your point, knee injuries are ALWAYS different from one player to another, i dare a single person who had had any type of knee surgery and plays sports at a high level to talk trash, no one will do it cuz ppl who have had knee injury and come back to play whatever sport you play at a high level knows how difficult this is. this thread is a new low here, you NEVER wish harm upon a player from your team.
