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11-19-2010, 04:22 AM
Roy’s knee is the one that scares Blazers
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The Portland Trail Blazers (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/por/) have been playing without center Greg Oden (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4243/)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4243/news) for three years now, pushing past 50 victories and reaching relevance again. They stopped counting on him. The regime responsible for drafting Oden over Kevin Durant (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4244/)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4244/news) has been pushed out, and a fresh front office bears no burden for a broken No. 1 pick.
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Another microfracture surgery for Oden (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-trailblazers-oden), as the team announced Wednesday, is just another step closer to the Blazers letting him leave this summer.
[Photos: Blazers star Brandon Roy (http://yhoo.it/bMPI3T)]
http://l.yimg.com/a/p/sp/tools/med/2010/11/ipt/1290096826.jpg?&sig=R7edTQh6C2l8cW2h_eP2NQ-- Guard Brandon Roy will miss the next two games with a sore knee that greatly concerns the Blazers.
(Layne Murdoch/Getty Images)
As much as the training staff likes Oden, it will have to take into account the mental toll that four years of flailing has taken on him. The issues which have surrounded him – his drinking, his deep emotional lows – play into the uncertainty around his future as much as the two microfracture surgeries on his knees.
The Blazers could survive without Oden, but their true star – Brandon Roy (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4134/)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4134/news) – has the knees which truly frighten the franchise.
The guard will miss the next two games (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-trailblazers-roy) with soreness in his left knee – a knee that has grown worse and worse. There’s damage and deterioration, and two league sources with direct knowledge of the medical prognosis on Roy say his days as an NBA All-Star, a franchise player, are probably over.
“There’s no real hope of it improving,” one league source with direct knowledge of the medical prognosis told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday. “It’s just about trying to manage it now. He’s not going to be the franchise superstar that [Portland] thought he would be. This isn’t something they consider ‘fixable.’ ”
The Blazers have gathered multiple medical opinions on Roy, but there’s been no clear consensus, no course of action. The scenarios are still wide open. The team could try another surgery. They could limit his minutes, his games, his back-to-back appearances. All of those things are being discussed and likely will be implemented sooner than later. They keep taking Roy to more doctors, but there remains one thing that no one can offer for the beleaguered left knee: a solution.
Another source privy to the discussions between Blazers management, Roy and the doctors, simply says: “It’s bad and it’s not getting better.”
http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sp/ed/experts/wojnarowski.png By Adrian Wojnarowski (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/expertsarchive?author=Adrian+Wojnarowski), Yahoo! Sports Nov 18, 11:03 am EST
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The Portland Trail Blazers (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/por/) have been playing without center Greg Oden (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4243/)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4243/news) for three years now, pushing past 50 victories and reaching relevance again. They stopped counting on him. The regime responsible for drafting Oden over Kevin Durant (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4244/)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4244/news) has been pushed out, and a fresh front office bears no burden for a broken No. 1 pick.
Related Video
http://l.yimg.com/a/p/sp/tools/med/2010/11/ipt/1290098523.jpg
Another microfracture surgery for Oden (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-trailblazers-oden), as the team announced Wednesday, is just another step closer to the Blazers letting him leave this summer.
[Photos: Blazers star Brandon Roy (http://yhoo.it/bMPI3T)]
http://l.yimg.com/a/p/sp/tools/med/2010/11/ipt/1290096826.jpg?&sig=R7edTQh6C2l8cW2h_eP2NQ-- Guard Brandon Roy will miss the next two games with a sore knee that greatly concerns the Blazers.
(Layne Murdoch/Getty Images)
As much as the training staff likes Oden, it will have to take into account the mental toll that four years of flailing has taken on him. The issues which have surrounded him – his drinking, his deep emotional lows – play into the uncertainty around his future as much as the two microfracture surgeries on his knees.
The Blazers could survive without Oden, but their true star – Brandon Roy (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4134/)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4134/news) – has the knees which truly frighten the franchise.
The guard will miss the next two games (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-trailblazers-roy) with soreness in his left knee – a knee that has grown worse and worse. There’s damage and deterioration, and two league sources with direct knowledge of the medical prognosis on Roy say his days as an NBA All-Star, a franchise player, are probably over.
“There’s no real hope of it improving,” one league source with direct knowledge of the medical prognosis told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday. “It’s just about trying to manage it now. He’s not going to be the franchise superstar that [Portland] thought he would be. This isn’t something they consider ‘fixable.’ ”
The Blazers have gathered multiple medical opinions on Roy, but there’s been no clear consensus, no course of action. The scenarios are still wide open. The team could try another surgery. They could limit his minutes, his games, his back-to-back appearances. All of those things are being discussed and likely will be implemented sooner than later. They keep taking Roy to more doctors, but there remains one thing that no one can offer for the beleaguered left knee: a solution.
Another source privy to the discussions between Blazers management, Roy and the doctors, simply says: “It’s bad and it’s not getting better.”