Surgery

It has been a rough five months for Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. The former number two pick in the 2012 NBA Draft tore his labrum in the preseason and went from a guy expected to breakout with a larger role to someone who may miss the entire season. He recovered quickly and returned on January 29, averaging [...]

All of those years in the NBA have apparently caught up to Jason Kidd. The 42 year-old Bucks head coach is being forced to take a leave of absence from the team in order to undergo hip surgery. This comes at a bad time for the Bucks as they are underachieving with an 11-18 record [...]

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 [...]

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 20, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors This almost seems like karma for the way in which he conducted himself while he was a free agent. We’re not happy Dwight is hurt, but it just seems ironic. It will be very interesting to see if he is in fact traded this summer. “Dwight has been [...]

April 13, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors The NBA franchise most plagued by injuries, just got plagued a little further. As if Brandon Roy retiring and the long overdue releasing of Greg Oden wasn’t enough, LaMarcus Aldridge needs hip surgery. The Trail Blazers announced that All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge will have arthroscopic surgery to repair [...]

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 [...]

April 2, 2012 – Allen Moll A little more than 6 weeks ago the entire basketball universe was going Lin-Sane over the NBA’s newest hoops sensation Jeremy Lin.  His meteoric rise from undrafted point guard out of Harvard, to being released by Golden State and scooped up by New York, then stepping into supertardom as the Knicks [...]

December 2, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors It’s always amazing how athletes have surgery just before a season is set to start, causing them to miss time. Hernia may be a different situation so we’ll give Miller the benefit of the doubt. Either way, I wonder if this will cause the Heat to use their [...]