Great stuff! I lived 20 minutes from the campus back then and recall nearly all of those games. Kyrie was so special that year in the few meaningful games he played before the injury.
Yeah but you're counting football and stuff I don't care about. The universe owes the Celtics for that bullshit it pulled on opening night. This is just extra.Every other city thinks you couldn't be more wrong.
How is that right? Even if you throw out Super Bowl XXXVI, it'sEvery other city thinks you couldn't be more wrong.
I never saw Kyrie play live. I think my brother was at the Butler game though where the injury occurred. Since he came back in the game we weren't even discussing it after the game. Then boom he was out 3 months.
The Astros are still missing. I thought about hockey, but what have NJ, PHX, and CHA won outside of hockey since 2001?
"Search Google for image" tells me it's from a Business Insider article from October 2013.
Likely against a team they were 1-2 against WITH Kyrie...
It's really really good to see Kyrie managing his own health, but I also wonder how much blowback the Celtics will get from how they handled the IT situation. He may have cost himself $50M+ following the team's advice, and if we're aware of that, you can bet players around the league are uber-aware of it.
That's a great catch--I hadn't even thought of that.
which Celtics advice?
Now that is worth the 10 bucks! I wonder if he'll get the screws out over the summer since those will take longers to heal since they're in the bone not around.
The fact that the team cleared him to play. I don't know that the Celtics are to blame here, but the optics are definitely bad, given how his injury has played out.
For some reference - not sure how relevant this is - but I have some screws and plates in one of my legs. I was told if they were to remove the screws, they'd treat the recovery as if it was a broken bone as removing the screws would leave the bone with several holes that would effect the structural integrity of the bone itself.
These two things are not mutually exclusive.
It might look bad from afar, and I don't doubt NBA players talk and are very afraid of an "IT situation".
* It's the information age in general and players having more professional specialists around them. 25 years ago, Jordan was a pioneer for working with Tim Glover as it was unheard of for guys to have their own personal trainer. Nowadays, teams employ their own trainers while individual players have their own personal trainer which can be a tricky situation (see: Guerrero, Alex) if their techniques and goals are different from the teams. Many players consult with outside sources now and soon I'm sure most of them will have their own medical specialists to consult with to confirm what the team doctors are recommending to protect themselves.
IT's situation sounds like it is different in that, well, he was fucked.
We don't know what was viable or not but you are correct in that Isaiah wanted to play through any injury but I disagree with the second part of your post as the Celtics team doctors DID advise against surgery. Kyrie got a second opinion and had surgery. If surgery wasn't against the Celtics wishes they wouldn't have told him it wasn't necessary. These things sometimes don't end well......Rose in Chi, Kawhi, in SA, etc etc. Time will tell but I highly doubt the Celtics aren't frustrated and embarrassed behind the scenes that Kyrie went against the teams wishes.
I don't think we can conclude the bolded. There's a lot of uncertainty sometimes in these medical situations, and so the docs often have to resort to probabilities. The Celtics initially medical staff felt that surgery wasn't necessary, which was probably the right call to make at the time, given the information they had at the time. Starting with a conservative, non-surgical approach is often the right call. After the knee failed to respond, there is now a lot more info available to the docs. Here is what we don't know:
Slightly concerning not his from is this tweet from yesterday:
