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02-13-2009, 05:46 PM
Orlando Magic guard Jameer Nelson is done playing for this season, whether he has surgery on his injured shoulder or not, GM Otis Smith tells Florida Today.
Nelson suffered a torn labrum in his right (shooting) shoulder February 2. Smith has allowed him to seek medical options that might let him return this season, and the team is expected to announce next week whether he will have arthroscopic surgery that would require six months of rehab.
"You can rehab it and still play, but that's usually when it's the off (nonshooting) shoulder," Smith told the newspaper. "He goes down four or five times a game and that shoulder just wouldn't hold up. He's one of my toughest players, but we can't let him play through this."
Smith has said it's his job to think in the long-term interest of the team and Nelson, who is in the first season of a five-year, $40 million deal.
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Nelson suffered a torn labrum in his right (shooting) shoulder February 2. Smith has allowed him to seek medical options that might let him return this season, and the team is expected to announce next week whether he will have arthroscopic surgery that would require six months of rehab.
"You can rehab it and still play, but that's usually when it's the off (nonshooting) shoulder," Smith told the newspaper. "He goes down four or five times a game and that shoulder just wouldn't hold up. He's one of my toughest players, but we can't let him play through this."
Smith has said it's his job to think in the long-term interest of the team and Nelson, who is in the first season of a five-year, $40 million deal.
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