Not necessarily. If Yao is healthy this season, and next season, then he could opt out after the 2009 season. It's to his advantage if he is healthy, to do so, to secure a multi-year max contract. If Yao ends up excercising the 2010 option, it means that Yao's value has declined either due to performance or health concerns. That would effectively end Yao's Max Contract days..or even his career.
If I were Yao, I would use whatever leverage I have within the organization to get Adelman FIRED after this season. That's right. This coach is not good for Yao Ming. If the organization refuses, then Yao's days with the organization may be done. I don't see how Yao would want to resign with the Rockets with Adelman as their coach.
How can he do this over the summer if the Rockets team doctors kept telling him that the pain was all in his head? He's in real pain and people need to figure that out.
Remember the Waco specialty. No doctor give T-Mac any hope but he keep looking until he found this guy that wasn't even a doctor. T-Mac keep looking for an answer and can maybe get it. Doctors opinions vary all the time. And many time they are wrong. He maybe find a better way to rehab.
I don't know jack about the surgery and stuff, but I remember listening to Calvin's show and some lady horse rider called in and said sometimes, you just have the pain for the rest of your life. You learn to work/ride/play through it. If this is the case, I worry for T-Mac. I have a relatively high threshold for pain, but then again, I don't play a professional sport for a living. It would seem natural to me if you feel a pain while moving a body part, your body would immediately try to prevent you from making that movement. Maybe he needs something to numb the pain for game day, but again...I know nothing of that world. I'm very interested to find out what comes out in the reports of his appt today.
So what? Rick is paid by Les not by Yao. I dont think this organization has to resign Yao to get first round ousts.
I've gotta go with Tracy on this one. I think that acquiring an outside opinion is absolutely the smartest thing to do at this point. I'm curious to know if he had any outside opinions going into the surgery. Given the Rockets medical staff's recent and troublesome history, he has good reason to lack mental confidence that his knee is solid. I just hope he doesn't need anymore surgical repairs that would result in more missed games. For now, all we can do is keep our fingers crossed that it'll be alright. Tracy might come across as being too soft, but regardless I'd much rather see him take extra time and get another opinion than listen to Clanton and try to "grind" through it. Thats a $20 million knee is this staff has never been able to do sh## for any of his other serious injuries.
I agree. At least on the surface, they are not doing a good job. They seemed to have misdiagnosed both Yao and McGrady in the past, more than one times, and cost us greatly.
Seriously. If this turns out to be true, then WTF are we paying these people for?! McGrady's back was an issue, now it's his knee -- if they keep pushing him when he can't be pushed, we ought to do some heavy rebuilding. I am gonna believe McGrady on this one, because he felt the same way about his back, and that was a legitimate concern at the time and is now not causing him too much pain (though I guess it's affected his former aggressive nature).
I had a surgery on my right knee last May, then went through more than three months rehab before started playing pick-up games again. I consistently felt the pain in my knee in the first couple of months, especially in the early part of the playing, after that, it got loose, you don't feel a thing. It's 18 months now, I still fell the pain if I jump, or make a sudden cut on the court in the first few minutes on the court. The advice from my Dr. was that I shouldn't do anything involves the knee before the scar was formed (inside), once the scar is established, then the rehab should start to strength the knee which usually lasts a couple of months, depends on the patient. There should not be any uncontrollable activities, e.g., contact sports, during this period. My taking is that TMac got back on the basketball court a little too early after the knee surgery.
Huh? Did you have arthoscopic surgery to remove loose particles? Because when I had it done, my experience and treatment was much different than you described. Yours sounds more extensive to me. DD
I had the torn meniscus, and also had some loose particles removed, including smooth the bone surface, etc. I was on the hard cast for 6 weeks before allowed to use the knee.
That is a much more invasive surgery than what Tmac had....no wonder you had a longer recovery time. Most arthoscopic surgeries to remove loose particles have you rehabbing by day 7. DD
Ok, I thought TMac had more than just "removing the loose parts" with the surgery, since he mentioned the swollen and consistent pain after quite some time. That's not something should be there with this kind of operation, it has to be something more.
There's too much blame put on the Rockets' medical staff. They're in charge of millionaire athletes for a reason and its not because they got picked blindly from a medical directory. A lot of fans expect them to magically prevent injuries, but injuries are accidental and happen even if the proper perventitive measures take place. As for "misdiagnosing", there's not exactly one right solution that always works for the same injury. There's certain treatments that are used the majority of the time and pretty much always work, but if they aren't working you have to change the treatment, but it doesn't mean the first treatment was incorrect, just not enough. Also, certain doctors may do more experimental treatment than others. Its like if a woman who hasn't been able to have kids goes to specialists and never gets pregnant, but then goes to a doctor who has a solution that hasn't been researched much and it works for her. It doesn't mean the previous doctors didn't kow what they were doing.
