I have no way of knowing if he will play next year, if he does how he will be able to contribute, etc. However i do know that his knee is not bone on bone. It WAS bone on bone, but at this point, 8 months out from microfracture his knee is definitely not bone on bone. It would have been initially which would have caused the awful pain as you said just walking, but not now, not 8 months after microfracture, which is exactly why he could now start playing basketball with contact again. The whole point of the microfracture is to put cartilage back in the knee and it does work. It's just the results for players afterwords as far as their games go that gets mixed results. Some do ok like Kidd, Adrian Griffin supposedly Amare will recover fine, while others are done totally like Allan Houston, or lose much ability like Weber, or are almost done like Penny. It mainly depends on the location of the knee problem, the size of it, condition of the knee, and density of the cells in your cartilage. I might be wrong here but I seem to remeber that Sura's area was in the back of the knee and was fairly small. This would mean that generally and mind you that's generally he would have a very good recovery and possibly even the knee would be better than before injury issues even started. But if it was a larger problem and in the fron of the knee or even kneecap he could have major problems. But even then it would not be bone on bone, because even then the cartilage would grow in. I had a similar microfracture last August, off a "bone on bone" problem, where it was smaller in the injury size and in the back of the knee, and I'm pretty much fine now. I can't see any difference really at all in athketic ability, but I wouldn;t be enduring an NBA season and I'm not 33 and don;t have the miles on my body that Sura has on his. So basically we would need to know exactly what Sura's injury was to get a better idea, but bone on bone is exagerrating.
c'mon man he's better at english then you and i are at Manderin so I wouldnt be joking about his English.
LOL, what a crazy thread. That Yao and Amare joke at the top of page 4 made me roll over the floor laughing.
just a minor technical note on the microfracture. cartilage does not grow back. very small micro fractures are done on the spot where the cartilage is missing. blood seeps thru and scar tissue forms over the bone where the fractures were. so it is scar tissue and not cartilage.
