A Tale of Two Kevins

Fencer reregistered · Post #1 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:57 am

Kevin McHale was one of the greatest power forwards of all time.

He wrecked his career by playing on an injured ankle in the playoffs.

Danny Ainge was Kevin McHale's teammate then.

Kevin McHale was also surely one of the most influential (position) coaches in Kevin Garnett's career, even though he didn't formally have a coaching title while Garnett was on the Wolves.

I hope and trust this example is restraining Kevin Garnett from doing anything too reckless now.

TheOGJabroni · Post #2 » by **TheOGJabroni** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:35 pm

I don't think KG really has much say in whether he plays or not right now. It's out of his hands.

celticfan42487 · Post #3 » by **celticfan42487** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:04 pm

KG is already hurt. It's too late to play himself into an injury.

Fencer reregistered · Post #4 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:01 pm

celticfan42487 wrote:KG is already hurt. It's too late to play himself into an injury.

My point was that McHale turned a should-be-temporary injury into a permanent one by playing on it.

The two cases aren't very similar medically, but the analogy still jumps out at me.

Bluewhale · Post #5 » by **Bluewhale** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:50 pm

The problem is, what's the hell the problem in KG's knee?

I have no idea why they seem have no idea at all after 2 months.

chakdaddy · Post #6 » by **chakdaddy** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:33 am

Yeah I thought of this too, actually brought up this analogy elsewhere.

I'm inclinded to agree with the people who say there's probably an undiagnosed meniscal tear.

One other tidbit - obviously people more expert than me read his case, but when I look at a knee MRI, I don't think I can tell a strain from a partial tear very well; as far as I know there's a lot of overlap, it's kind of a spectrum...