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Bynum's season is over. He is set to have arthroscopic knee surgery this coming Wednesday... Good luck and heal up for next season!!!

yup official...

Good luck to the big dude, if he rehabs well, he should be like a fresh new signing for next season. Still hope we win it without him.

I hope and prey they don't have an unexpected finding during the arthroscopy.
Good luck, big guy.

This should have been done in Jan... 130 days is too long to wait

HOPE HE GETS BETTER

Damn. I hate hearing that kind of surgery happen to such a young promising player. But time is on our side and we can only pray that he comes back even stronger like Amare.

Does the surgery have any lasting impact?

Arthroscopic surgery is pretty common nowadays, so I think the actual procedure is cut-and-dried. I would imagine the long-term impact will depend on what kind of damage they find. If it's as simple as shaving some loose fibers and tissue, as the AP story made it sound, it probably isn't that big a deal.

Even if everything goes smoothly, it pisses me off to no end that this wasn't done three or four months ago.

I don't know anything about medicine or health, so I'm probably talking out of my ass -- no, definitely talking out of my ass. But damn if it doesn't make us look like a bunch of bumbling idiots that we couldn't get this taken care of sooner. And it should be noted, it took examinations from experts unaffiliated with our team to make the determination that Andrew needed surgery.

So much for the best medical care money can (allegedly) buy...

im studyin medicine, but there is no drawback on a delayed surgery, except when a surgery is malignant.
his knee has already somewhat healed without surgery, so it should go smoother anyways.
the only draw back is that if he had the surgery 4 months ago, we might have been able to use him now.
it also scares me that hes so young and already going into surgery...some of these players with knee surgery was so good, but after surgery, never remained the same.
chris webber
amare stoudemire(yes he improved, but if you saw him pre-injury, he was a flat out monster)
kenyon martin
im sure theres a lot more
i hope bynum isnt the next on the list

The most positive note is that unlike players such as Kmart and Amare who heavily relied on explosiveness because they were undersized, Bynum is training to be a finess player, and is still huge so is gonna be that long guy that can catch anything thrown near him. Plus Amare is still just as explosive as he was before, but just added a jump shot.
From the sounds of it this is not that serious a surgery, just a clean up.

^^That avy is gross!

Hey, at least he has his priorities right.

Licking up your own puke >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pussy.

Bynum isn't having microfracture surgery like Amare, Kmart and Webber, so they shouldn't even be in the conversation...

I don't know why everyone is comparing Bynum's injury to Amare's. Amare had microfracture surgery, Bynum is having arthroscopic surgery. BIG difference. Microfracture surgery is >>>>>>>> more worse than Arthroscopic surgery.

Well, most of these doctors seem to have taken a wait-and-see approach, which is probably why the process was so long.

I think most doctors would recommend avoiding surgery if possible. They tried rehabbing it, and it seemed it did help to a certain extent, but not enough to Bynum's satisfaction.

I don't know, it doesn't sound like this was an easy diagnosis to make. Kind of those things that really depends on how much discomfort a player is feeling, rather than an urgent medical condition.

I'm not saying Bynum is a wuss and can't suck it up and play. But considering all the specialists he went to, I don't recall one that immediately recommended surgery. To me, that tells me this is a minor knee problem that's really about discomfort, so they're going to clean it out a bit. Just my inferences.

Hopefully that fixes it, though.

Arthroscopic surgery is exactly what Greg Oden had before they determined he needed the microfracture procedure. Arthroscopic surgery is minimally invasive and is exploratory surgery and sometimes treatment, depending on the damage. It will be used to determine the real problem - to take a look at his knee from inside his knee - and if possible attempt to fix the problem. It is not very likely that Bynum will need the microfracture procedure, but it is possible.

It's certainly true that microfracture is >>>>>>> worse than arthroscopic as far as the procedure is concerned, but arthroscopic is used to determine if microfracture is necessary - it's kind of like comparing going to the doctor to determine what the stomach pain is compared to getting an appendectomy.

I can't help but wonder now if possibly waiting on this surgery was the decision of the bynum camp or the lakers camp...

I'd have to think it's result of the Lakers camp. Can try to resign Bynum based on 2 good months of basketball... Able to pull trigger on gasol trade (do we really think it would have went down if Bynum didn't get injured?)

lakerRD wrote:I hope and prey they don't have an unexpected finding during the arthroscopy.
Good luck, big guy.

I can def. empathise with you guys. Oden went in for arthroscopic, and it was after that that they decided he needed the microfracture surgery. Hope it doesn't come to that.

good luck bynum, hope it goes well
get healthy for next year

djericho wrote:I can't help but wonder now if possibly waiting on this surgery was the decision of the bynum camp or the lakers camp...

I'd have to think it's result of the Lakers camp. Can try to resign Bynum based on 2 good months of basketball... Able to pull trigger on gasol trade (do we really think it would have went down if Bynum didn't get injured?)

hmmmmm.....