It's amazing that Roy's career will end so quickly. I thought he would out last at least Baron Davis and other injury prone guys. http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2011/02/post_4.html
Roy needs to try something revolutionary. Let the top doctors experiment with regrowning cartilage, etc... No point in playing a couple years like this.
Co-sign bruh. I'm hoping he does that to keep his career going. Grant Hill it on up dude...(continue a career everyone thought was over)
Regrowing cartilage is microfracture knee surgery. Cartilage isn't vascularized so once you run out you are basically screwed unless your poke tiny holes in the bone and hope for it to "regrow".
That's tough for Roy. I still remember him being a nightmare for us during the playoffs. Still, I'm glad we weren't able to draft him. Our injury history has already been epic.
This is sad, Roy is very easy to root for. With that said, Rockets Dodged a bullet. If we would drafted him and he went down with this kind of injury, some fans would have accused the rockets training staff for being incompetent.
Fixed. Maybe the Suns should just trade all their young player and go after all old and injury prone players. Yao Oden A.Walker R.Wallace Hill McGrady Roy Redd Nash A.Hardaway
It's really sad to see his career end like this, I hope the doctors fine some way to risk his career.
One thing I don't understand is really, what's the difference between him and T-Mac? I mean, T-Mac's no longer T-Mac, but he's become a decent role player and will almost certainly still be in the league next season. What's the difference, and why can't Roy end up like that? Or why can't microfracture fix this? I'm not a science person, after all.
You are right. I just read the wikipedia page of the IGF-1 therapy. That's pretty awesome if it would work.
Sounds like he may as well experiment with these new techniques...he doesnt have much to lose. Very sad story, its hard not to root for B. Roy
No its not. Microfracture surgery generates scar tissue that simulates cartilage. There's no actual way for the body to regrow cartilage. So outside of some procedure that artificially grows cartilage and puts it in his knee, he'll never have any.
That's what i'm thinking too.. i'm not sure what other surgery you can do on knees when there's no cartilage left. I'm wondering if its because both of his knees are shot. Either way, i'm really hoping (for his sake) that he doesn't try to come back this year and just rehabs until training camp and see where he's at.
