Andrew Bynum Surgery Results

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Andrew Bynum Surgery Results 

Post#1 » by Ace626 » Wed May 21, 2008 9:22 pm

Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on his left knee today in New York, it was announced today by the team.

The procedure, which took 30 minutes and was performed by Dr. David Altchek, consisted of removing some cartilage debris and smoothing some rough spots on the underside of the kneecap.

Bynum is expected to make a full recovery by the start of training camp.


http://www.nba.com/lakers/news/080521_b ... rgery.html


He probly wont be back till training camp of the 2009-2010 season :nonono:
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Post#2 » by Farsi Man » Wed May 21, 2008 9:24 pm

They could have just done this all along and he would have been back a month and a half ago.
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Post#3 » by GswStorm3 » Wed May 21, 2008 9:45 pm

Bynum may never be the same, a second surgery needed is never a good sign.
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Post#4 » by mrfatwrecker » Wed May 21, 2008 9:46 pm

Farsi Man wrote:They could have just done this all along and he would have been back a month and a half ago.


That is not 100% true. They needed to wait for the swelling to subside before they could cut him, plus they wanted to wait as long as possible without actually having to cut his knee up. They did a minor scope, like Kobe's had several times, and they just cleaned it up a bit. Nothing major. Baron Davis actually came back from arthroscopic surgery after just 3 weeks I think.
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Post#5 » by mrfatwrecker » Wed May 21, 2008 9:46 pm

Night Angel 1 wrote:Bynum may never be the same, a second surgery needed is never a good sign.


He didn't have surgery. He's been trying to rehab this injury naturally this whole time...
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Post#6 » by G-Heel » Wed May 21, 2008 9:47 pm

Hopefully he's not Grant Hill 2.0
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Post#7 » by Basileus777 » Wed May 21, 2008 9:50 pm

G-Heel wrote:Hopefully he's not Nenad Krstic 2.0
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Post#8 » by carrottop12 » Wed May 21, 2008 9:56 pm

Here's to hoping he never develops!

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Post#9 » by mr_sunshine » Wed May 21, 2008 9:58 pm

mrfatwrecker wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



He didn't have surgery. He's been trying to rehab this injury naturally this whole time...


He had another surgery before earlier in his career. Hopefully this puts to rest all those, "But if Bynum was playing we would have beat <insert team that beat the Lakers>," comments.
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Post#10 » by LakerFanMan » Wed May 21, 2008 10:00 pm

He'll be fine. There was very little work needed on his knee, from what I've read. It's still surgery, but he should come back ok.
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Post#11 » by Milan24 » Wed May 21, 2008 10:08 pm

mr_sunshine wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



He had another surgery before earlier in his career. Hopefully this puts to rest all those, "But if Bynum was playing we would have beat <insert team that beat the Lakers>," comments.

There was a rumor that he had surgery when we was 12. I don't know if it is true or not.
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Post#12 » by 10scott10 » Wed May 21, 2008 10:09 pm

mr_sunshine wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



He had another surgery before earlier in his career. Hopefully this puts to rest all those, "But if Bynum was playing we would have beat <insert team that beat the Lakers>," comments.

you do realize that other surgery was when he was in his early-mid teens, he was 15. and it was on the other knee.
but i guess that if requiring 2 surgies in your lifetime immediatly, makes someone bad, then maybe the blazers should just give up on oden since he has already has 3-4 surgeries.


seriously though. knee surgery when these guys while they are in there teens is farily coomon. you don't grow to 7 feet and not have some weird stuff going on. rapid growth can cause rediculous growths on joints, that is often cleared out to improve athleticism.
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Post#13 » by jazzfan1971 » Wed May 21, 2008 10:49 pm

LOL, a lot of folks are HOPING he never recovers.

It'd be a shame really. He seems like a nice talent.

I don't think it'll hamper him too much.
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Post#14 » by The Nash Era » Wed May 21, 2008 10:56 pm

He'll be fine, this is just arthroscopic knee surgery and that's really nothing.
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Post#15 » by Realm_G » Wed May 21, 2008 11:06 pm

Why has the General NBA Discussion board become the Lakers news board?
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Post#16 » by MalReyn » Wed May 21, 2008 11:07 pm

He should be fine.

On an unrelated note, has there ever been news that the surgury of a major sports star was NOT called successful? I've always felt like saying "surgury was successful" is misleading, success isn't measured till we know if the player can return at the same level.
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Post#17 » by UrbanLegendMD » Wed May 21, 2008 11:10 pm

MalReyn wrote:He should be fine.

On an unrelated note, has there ever been news that the surgury of a major sports star was NOT called successful? I've always felt like saying "surgury was successful" is misleading, success isn't measured till we know if the player can return at the same level.


Well, it was successful since there were no complications.
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Post#18 » by semi-sentient » Wed May 21, 2008 11:13 pm

Good news for Lakers fans. Part of that surgery was exploratory, so it's good that nothing major was found.

Bynum will come back just fine and be a great backup to Gasol.
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Post#19 » by LakerFanMan » Wed May 21, 2008 11:21 pm

^^^ He would likely start. Fisher/Kobe/Odom/Gasol/Bynum
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Post#20 » by dockingsched » Wed May 21, 2008 11:34 pm

30 minute surgery to clean up a bit of debris is nothing to warrant some of the remarks here.
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