Isaiah Thomas Out Four Months Following Hip Surgery

[RealGM Wiretap]

Isaiah Thomas had successful arthroscopic surgery to his right hip on Thursday.

Thomas will miss the remainder of the season. 

The expected recovery time for Thomas is four months.

Thomas elected not to undergo surgery last offseason as he attempted to rehabilitate his hip to return in January.

Via RealGM Staff Report

[caronimo]

Hope he recovers well....he's still not a sixth man

[delsol650]

Small player with the biggest mouth that is one of the worst defenders currently in the league. Been in 5 teams already and after this NBA season will be on his 6th. Needs to look into the mirror more often as to why. He needs to figure out that he's really a chucking point guard with no defense and more often gets caught leaping in the air to either attempt a shot or no shot then tries to pass the ball last second

Pair it with another Hip issue lets see what team comes calling after said and done next year and what kind of contract he gets, plus if he still thinks that he's only a starting player that should command big bucks.

[PeoplesChamp]

He's not going to get a max contract, but, that just means he's not going to be vastly overpaid. And I don't think the Celtics were ever going to give him that.

But, he'll still be a millionaire many, many times over. There's no reason to feel bad for him. He'll be useful to a lot of teams.

[ChokeFasncists]

So his hip is really not healed yet, the centerpiece of the Cavs Celts trade was really the pick.

Less likely that he'll get a big contract and guaranteed starting spot now.

[TheNewEra]

Small player with the biggest mouth that is one of the worst defenders currently in the league. Been in 5 teams already and after this NBA season will be on his 6th. Needs to look into the mirror more often as to why. He needs to figure out that he's really a chucking point guard with no defense and more often gets caught leaping in the air to either attempt a shot or no shot then tries to pass the ball last second

Pair it with another Hip issue lets see what team comes calling after said and done next year and what kind of contract he gets, plus if he still thinks that he's only a starting player that should command big bucks.

He was the 60th pick he made his name in Sacramento him being traded wasn’t a big deal. Sacramento was making strange moves all over. Phoenix was stacking point guards without a direction. He went to Boston it worked. Him being on 5 teams really isn’t a knock on him.

[dice]

So his hip is really not healed yet, the centerpiece of the Cavs Celts trade was really the pick

of course the centerpiece was the pick. it certainly wasn't a partial season IT rental with new contract looming

so he avoided surgery that would have kept him out 4 months in order to rehab for EIGHT months...and then he ends up having to get the surgery anyway? is the surgery high risk or was the rehab just a really bad decision?

[dice]

Small player with the biggest mouth that is one of the worst defenders currently in the league

true

Been in 5 teams already and after this NBA season will be on his 6th. Needs to look into the mirror more often as to why

variety of reasons why

He needs to figure out that he's really a chucking point guard

it's not chucking when the ball goes in. he was one of the top handful of scorers in the entire league last season

[ChokeFasncists]

So his hip is really not healed yet, the centerpiece of the Cavs Celts trade was really the pick

of course the centerpiece was the pick. it certainly wasn't a partial season IT rental with new contract looming

It isn't that simple. The Cavs were super lucky that the Nets had some serious injury problem with Lin out for the season and DLo out for a long time. Otherwise they would almost surely be in the playoffs picture in the weak East. No one knew for sure how IT was gonna heal, how he was gonna mesh with the team and if he was gonna play as well as in the previous season. Most importantly, if the Cavs FO put the pick first and not be able to get a better player from Kyrie, then it's surely gonna upset LBJ cuz they are screwing up this season.(he did come out and criticize the team) Of course, then they had to do all those midseason trades to appease him. The chance of him re-signing got lower, that's not smart if that's indeed what they had in mind.

so he avoided surgery that would have kept him out 4 months in order to rehab for EIGHT months...and then he ends up having to get the surgery anyway? is the surgery high risk or was the rehab just a really bad decision?

Sounds like a bad decision, but it's understandable that one doesn't want a surgery and I suppose there's no guarantee that the surgery is gonna get him fully healthy.

[dice]

So his hip is really not healed yet, the centerpiece of the Cavs Celts trade was really the pick

of course the centerpiece was the pick. it certainly wasn't a partial season IT rental with new contract looming

It isn't that simple. The Cavs were super lucky that the Nets had some serious injury problem with Lin out for the season and DLo out for a long time. Otherwise they would almost surely be in the playoffs picture in the weak East

what?! the nets had a vegas over/under heading into the season of 28 wins. only the bulls and hawks were lower. and d'angelo russell is a terrible basketball player. the brooklyn pick has declined in value based on this season's outcome, not gone up

No one knew for sure how IT was gonna heal, how he was gonna mesh with the team and if he was gonna play as well as in the previous season. Most importantly, if the Cavs FO put the pick first and not be able to get a better player from Kyrie, then it's surely gonna upset LBJ cuz they are screwing up this season.(he did come out and criticize the team) Of course, then they had to do all those midseason trades to appease him. The chance of him re-signing got lower, that's not smart if that's indeed what they had in mind

kyrie was gone and the cavs got a much better deal than they had any right to. absolutely nobody expected IT to repeat what he did last season, particularly being relegated to a #2 option. it was hoped that he would be close by playoff time

[ChokeFasncists]

of course the centerpiece was the pick. it certainly wasn't a partial season IT rental with new contract looming

It isn't that simple. The Cavs were super lucky that the Nets had some serious injury problem with Lin out for the season and DLo out for a long time. Otherwise they would almost surely be in the playoffs picture in the weak East

what?! the nets had a vegas over/under heading into the season of 28 wins. only the bulls and hawks were lower. and d'angelo russell is a terrible basketball player. the brooklyn pick has declined in value based on this season's outcome, not gone up

Well, if the Cavs FO used the vegas rating to trade they're super lucky. The best player of the team, the veteran leader on and off the court is out for season; their second best out for several months. Otherwise, their record surely would have been much better than what it is now. It's no wonder tho, that the Cavs didn't do their homework, who was their GM? Kobe? Or Chauncey? Ainge definitely did his (I'm sure he has been scrutinizing the Nets for a long time). Marks has done an amazing job.

No one knew for sure how IT was gonna heal, how he was gonna mesh with the team and if he was gonna play as well as in the previous season. Most importantly, if the Cavs FO put the pick first and not be able to get a better player from Kyrie, then it's surely gonna upset LBJ cuz they are screwing up this season.(he did come out and criticize the team) Of course, then they had to do all those midseason trades to appease him. The chance of him re-signing got lower, that's not smart if that's indeed what they had in mind

kyrie was gone and the cavs got a much better deal than they had any right to. absolutely nobody expected IT to repeat what he did last season, particularly being relegated to a #2 option. it was hoped that he would be close by playoff time

By "no one knew for sure if he was gonna play as well as in the previous season" I certainly didn't mean the whole season. It was more like any point in the season. Well, it didn't come anywhere close.

But that's not the point, the point is that if they knew IT's injury was this serious and traded for him to get the pick or didn't get enough info and traded for a damaged good, (well they did threaten to withdraw and got a 2nd rounder or something) then they have sabotaged this season and pissed LBJ off. And then they had to try to salvage it with those midseason trades, which weren't bad but are quite risky. They surely could have done better than trading Kyrie to a regional competitor and helped them deal with a damaged good? Or maybe they were indeed blind enough to expect the Nets to be worst 3 again? Or teams knew that Kyrie is damaged good as well?

[SeanDaRyan]

QUICK! someone pay this man 200M dollars!!

[spikeslovechild]

He thought he could Gilbert Arenas people. Sorry little guy but the league has wised up