Microfracture Sugery Announcement-A Ploy to Not Get Traded?

Okay, I'm asking you to take of your "TMac rose colored glasses" for a second.

In the offseason and last year, there were not media reports all over the papers and internet about him being specifically discussed in deals. This week, it happened for the first time. If I am a player and I read all of this stuff on the front page of the biggest sports websites on the web, I would begin to think, "Crap, they are really serious this time." If I don't want to be traded to a team that I have no desire to play for, I might do what I need to do to make sure that I am not traded.

You don't think it's coincidental that last week, when no trades were being discussed in the papers specifically mentioning TMac, he said that surgery was probably not necessary but now that there are discussions and the media is all over them (possible exaggerating but perception is reality), he decides to tell SAS of all people that he is definitely getting the surgery? When did he meet with these doctors who said he had to have it? He was in freaking Vegas over the break...and the team says they won't have any new news until the end of the week.

Sorry, man, but there is a big difference in behind the scenes rumors and rumors that make headlines all over the net.

 

Per my original post, I don't believe that the microfracture procedure isn't an option, I just don't think that they KNOW it is the way to go. From the info that we have been given, the knee is sore but is structurally sound.

The timing of his announcement to Steven A. is suspicous in that it comes on the heels of major rumors about him being moved and shopped around. His saying that he has to have the surgery, when obviously they are awaiting other opinions, kills what little trade value he may have had and assures him that he will stay a Rocket.

I don't doubt his knee hurts. I don't doubt that he may end up getting the surgery. I DO doubt that he knows he has to get it right now...

 

Okay, so you agree with me. He reads the same stuff we do, so he thinks that the team is probably trying to trade him...

So now all of a sudden he "has to have the procedure" when they are awaiting other medical opinions?

The premature announcement to Steven A was a ploy to make sure we don't move him, seeing as it kills his value (not that he had a lot to begin with but trades were allegedly being discussed)

And of course no one wants him now...he just said he needs MICROFRACTURE surgery. Mission accomplished

 

Why?

Then tell me this...

End of last week, he tells the media that he is awaiting other opinions and will make a decision after he gets them. The team says the MRI's show no more damage to the knee. He leaves for Vegas and spends the weekend there. He comes home to find that every major sports site says we are in discussions to move him...front page headlines. Then he tells SAS he HAS to have the procedure, yet he is still awaiting medical advice...

You don't see how this works in his favor? He decimated what little value he had by saying that the procedure was a CERTAINTY, even though he is still waiting for more medical advice...

Once again, I am not saying that he won't end up getting the surgery, but what I am saying is that RIGHT NOW, we don't know that he has to have it. But by telling SAS that he does, he makes sure that we don't move him

Why is that crazy? I'm not accusing him of faking the knee pain...

 

Read my post above yours and tell me how that's "really creative"?

I stated the facts, then used my opinion to tie it all together. What about my statement (other than his intentions to torpedo his value) is incorrect?

Are we not still awaiting further opinions?
Did he not say at the end of last week that he didn't want surgery and needed more medical opinions?
Was he not in Vegas over the ASB (meaning not getting examined)?
Does the team still say the knee is okay?
Does the team still say we are awaiting more opinions?
Did ESPN and other websites not say we were in serious discussions to move him?
Did he not go to SAS and say he needed the procedure even though he doesn't have any other opinions yet?
Did Morey not say we won't know anything more until later in the week at the earliest?
Did telling SAS this not kill what little value he had in the trade market?

What is disputable in those sentences?

 

Nope. Feigen repeats what Morey tells him. Morey said he wasn't on the block. Multiple reports say otherwise. Perhaps DM doesn't want to upset TMac's fragile ego. Perhaps DM is telling the truth. Who knows...

But if you actually read what I was saying, I said that players don't usually trust management. Tmac comes back from Vegas and reads what we all read...ESPN and others saying that he is on the block and involved in active trade discussions. Then, before getting the other opinions from doctors, he tells the national media that he is done.

Thanks for playing