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Kevin Garnett will be out 2-3 weeks after being diagnosed with a posterior muscle strain of the right knee late last night.

According to Danny Ainge, the injury is not considered serious. The Celtics [team stats] simply are taking a cautious approach with a player who pushes his limits.

Garnett initially was scheduled to be examined this afternoon, but he was instead checked when he landed in Boston last evening.

Ainge said the initial decision to have him leave the Celtics road trip was designed to protect Garnett from Garnett.

“The biggest reason we’re sending him out of town is that he wanted to play in the second half (Thursday) night,” Ainge said. “And he wanted to play against Phoenix (tomorrow), too. So we just decided the smart thing to do was to get his butt out of town to keep him from being tempted to play.

“I don’t think it’s a major thing at all, but we’re just going to be cautious . . .”

That is probably wise, considering this is not Garnett’s first incident with that knee. There were problems before Garnett went up for a Paul Pierce [stats] lob against the Jazz on Thursday.

“It’s been off and on,” Ainge said. “He said he tweaked it in Dallas (on Feb. 12) a little bit, too.

“He’s been playing through it and he wanted to do that again. But, again, we have no reason to believe this is major. He’d have been out there playing no matter what in a playoff game. We’re just being cautious with him.”

Kefa461 wrote:Better time frame and injury then thought before......

http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/cyber ... uciate.htm

the most common way in which the PCL is injured is by direct impact to the front of the tibia itself, usually when the knee is bent. This may occur in a front-on tackle or collision or when falling with the knee bent.

hiphop1 wrote:I fell a little better but we will see what they say after the MRI.

TonyMontana wrote:Dam that sucks, I still dont understand how he hurt himself??
But look at it this way, the only tough games ahead for you guys is going to be Orlando, and the Cavs and they are both on your court. Hopefully our fans are your 6th man in those games.
Scal can step up like he did last year, I mean he's no K.G but look at it this way you guys are still in a good position and you guys get K.G back healthy before the playoff begin.

Celtics Hub did a great job tracking down an orthopedic surgeon to help explain what is going on with Kevin Garnett's knee.

Here are some highlights:

Celtics Hub: There’s a feeling out there that “posterior muscle strain” is not a real injury, but just something that sports teams say to placate the media until they want to release the real information. So: Is this a real injury? And what exactly is it?

Dr. Rose: Yes, it’s a real injury. A sprain is an injury to a ligament, but a strain is a muscle or tendon injury. You can strain an achilles tendon, for instance, but you can’t sprain it.

Now, saying it’s a muscle strain in the back of the knee is a little vague. There are a lot of muscles that run behind the knee. There’s the hamstring muscle, for instance, but the far more common injury is a strain of the calf muscle–which starts above the knee and runs to the achilles tendon. About 95 percent of the time, the strain will be in the part of the calf muscle that runs along the inside of the leg–the gastrocnemius.

CH: The team is saying KG will be back in two or three weeks. Is that a reasonable recovery time?

DR: It really depends on how badly it’s injured. A very mild strain takes two or three weeks to heal. If it’s a moderate strain, it could be four weeks, and if it’s severe, it could take up to six weeks.

If you come back too soon, you run the risk of aggravating the injury and starting from ground zero.

CH: And with rest, is this something you can come back from and be 100 percent, or does it always linger?

DR: Absolutely, he can come back 100 percent. There are some muscle strains that linger a long, long time, but those usually involve the hamstring–and usually the portion that is up higher in the thigh, not behind the knee. They say you never get cured of a hamstring injury. But for calf strains behind the knee–those have the potential for a full recovery.