ryaningf wrote:
Doctors have a funny way of disagreeing with each other. I guarantee you there are hundreds of doctors who would take the same results and find no career ending injury.
LOL...I'm sorry, but that is simply ridiculous. I don't accept your "guarantee" as anything more then internet chatter.
A guy could have a fractured forearm with the x-rays to prove it. Any doctor that disagreed with the diagnosis would be a quack.
In other words, you don't know that there are "hundreds of doctors" that would disagree with the orthopedic surgeon that examined Miles. The Blazer team doctors had the same 'opinion', AS WELL as Miles's own doctor.
That 'opinion' was based upon some actual facts, such as the cartilage in Miles's damaged knee being essentially gone causing "bone on bone" contact.
Medical science isn't black and white; there are several shades of grey. That's why they're called medical 'opinions.'
again, I'm guessing you really don't know that much about 'medical opinions', otherwise you wouldn't be saying the things you're saying. This wasn't some mysterious affliction of an organ. This was/is permanent damage to a structural component, specifically the cartilage of a knee. There isn't nearly as much "grey area" to that as you seem to believe.
It's true Miles has had problems on previous teams he's been on. That's not the point. Every NBA team knows the stories and they don't need Portland's input to figure it out. The real point, and truly reprehensible part, if true, is that Portland is allegedly giving other teams UNSOLICITED negative feedback about MIles. It's one thing to answer another team's queries about a player; it's another to use the occasion to say every possible negative thing you can about a guy, knowing that that kind of gossip will spread around the NBA like wild fire.
just where in that article did it say the alleged comments were unsolicited?
And if portland is asked about Miles, are they supposed to lie and say he was a great presence? He sure as hell wasn't. He was a bad apple in portland, he was a bad apple in cleveland, and he was the sam in LA. Being a good apple for a month in boston doesn't erase 7 years of previous bad behaviour.
And that's what Portland is doing: they're spreading unsolicited gossip.
LOL...now you're certain it's all true I see
See, Portland did this before too; they came out, UNSOLICITED, and announced that Miles have violated the league's drug policy. Nobody asked them, they volunteered that information in a not-too-subtle attempt to blackball Miles and to derail his comeback attempt. That's wrong and it violated MIles' privacy rights.
The thing is: this is so transparent. Everyone knows their true motive and all Portland is doing is undermining their reputation around the league, among players, coaches and league executives. And it will come back to haunt them.
well, I see you're prone to take things you don't know for a fact to be true and then building upon them other things...again, which you don't know for a fact are true.