Knee

Kevin Love isn’t fine, but he’s going to be fine. He thinks. Love apparently injured his knee during the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 105-99 loss to the Toronto Raptors on Monday night, according to the Akron Beacon Journal‘s Jason Lloyd: [tweet https://twitter.com/JasonLloydABJ/status/734955514153607169] Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue didn’t even play Love during the fourth quarter. But that [...]

Jimmy Butler is injured again. Just one game after returning from a left knee injury that kept him on the shelf for 11 games, Butler didn’t play in the Chicago Bulls’ Monday night win over the Milwaukee Bucks due to swelling in that same left knee. The Bulls are downplaying the severity of this setback, [...]

Jimmy Butler left Friday’s game vs. the Nuggets after an apparent knee injury. It didn’t look good, as he needed help exiting the court. Today, the Bulls received terrible news in that they will need to be without him for about a month. Butler is also an all-star reserve and his teammate, Pau Gasol, will [...]

Given his injury history in his brief career thus far, the Cavs are understandably cautious with bringing Kyrie Irving back into the fold. This is a championship or bust season, so rushing him back would be a huge mistake. They are likely to win the East, so they’d be wise to take their time. But [...]

July 11, 2012 – Allen Moll Every single season when it comes time for the annual NBA Draft, one or two prospects drop, sometimes inexplicably, to late in the 1st Round or early into the 2nd Round. Reasons range from a perceived bad attitude, poor practice habits, or because NBA doctors discovered a previously undisclosed [...]

May 17, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Just in case Bulls fans weren’t depressed enough these days with the news about the severity of Derrick Rose’s injury, as well as getting bounced from the playoffs in the first round by the 8th seeded team in the Eastern Conference, I thought we should share with them [...]

May 8, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Everything that could’ve gone wrong with Baron Davis’ knee on Sunday, did. At first, he was rumored to just have a dislocated knee cap. But we have found out that he also has a torn ACL and MCL. Given the fact that he’s 33, was a shell of [...]

April 24, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Jeremy Lin went down several weeks with a bum knee, and underwent surgery. He was projected to possibly be back for the first round if the Knicks made the playoffs. Well, the Knicks made the playoffs, but Lin is unlikely to see the first round. People familiar with [...]

April 23, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Dwight Howard underwent back surgery last week and is done for the playoffs and Olympics as well. The obvious replacement would be Andrew Bynum, but he too will have to go under the knife and will be unavailable. Lakers center Andrew Bynum is not interested in playing in [...]

April 3, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors We have been living in the brand new world of communications through social media for a while now. Nonetheless every once in a while I get taken aback by the level of access that this new medium gives us to professional athletes. Most recent example being this photo [...]