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Uh oh.
http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miam...-swelling-knee
Looks like we dodged a bullet.
Uh oh.
dood is done
To be expected. His first contact practice in years.
I like Oden. If anything good comes out of a 3peat it's him getting run.
It's not even remotely funny.
My apologies for laughing. It really is not funny that someone is dealing with injuries trying to play the sport they love. I faced the same cir stances.
With that being said, what did this guy expect?
He has not been in the league for four years and he had all the opportunities to make a smart move. Popovich has preserved Duncan (who has had a bad knee for how long) for years. He could have not only become healthy without the spotlight around him, learned from the greatest damn PF of all time, yet he decided to go to the limelight and play for the champs instead of having a compe ive drive of any sort, any thought process at all, and he's paying for it.
I'm taking this out more on his compe ive drive and the bit of butthurt I have. But damn, dude. I really think Pop could have managed his minutes and helped Oden become a name for his on the court success.
LOL seriously though. GTFO with that mentality.
I've already said what I think about Oden's decision choosing the Heat, and it is certainly NOT this.
Hey bandwagon fan Heattalk is that way ------>
Really is sad. He could be doing serious long term damage at this point to his knees.
miami signing him was one of the best things to happen in the off season. the past few years, the spurs front office has been doing a lot of dumb . they've got a history of dominance in drafting and signings, but the last few years, has been horrible.
trading for richard jefferson
giving splitter 9 million a year
resigning ginobli for anything more than 2 million a year
getting rid of jax to sign tmac(i know it was pop, but somene should have stepped in)
going after oden in the off season
oden is 1 hard foul away from his career being over for good. if he plays minutes the first few weeks ofthe season, he'll be out for the year by december 15th. i dont know what kind of drugs the spurs front office has been on the past few years.
Why are you still here? Shouldn't you be finding a better team with a better coach and GM?
Spurs knew what they were doing IMO
+1 to poster that calls him walking windshield
Pop is known for preserving the health of his players, not for miraculously healing dodgy knees. He couldn't have done anything for Oden.
this.
good move by us to avoid this guy.
How do you know what kind of minutes Spo was going to play Oden? And do you think Pop would have managed his minutes during practice? Held him out of a 5 vs 5 practice? I guess not? And since the swelling developed after a practice I think it's most likely that the swelling would also have happened had Oden signed with us.
Suck for Oden. I sincerely hope he would be able to have a successful comeback.
It's also time to wonder if all these knees micro-fracture surgeries that were done few years ago have made more harm than good. Doctors may have reached that conclusion when you see that less and less players are having that surgery. If I'm not mistaken, only Oden, and his already micro-fractured knees, got one in the last 3 years.
You are right. The percentage of NBA athletes undergoing microfracture surgeries has gone down over the years. The percentage of those who have regained to pre-surgery form is also low.. and this is not just limited to the NBA. Even the MLB among others.
Last edited by Spursfanfromafar; 10-17-2013 at 03:25 AM.
always considered totally re ed the idea of signing him, i wish him the best though and if he can play 5 games and not need surgery or having his arthritis come back (not like it gets away anyway), than it's a huge win for him.
not that it was a though call tbh
micro-fracture surgeries result in replacing the original tissue with a different kind of, less flexible, tissue type. add that to the fact that he has hip problems and the result is a high probability of repeating injury.
Not sure why this post wouldn't get a person thrown out of the forum.
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