KG probably out for the playoffs

[Joebiscuit]

We need to bring Antoine in to motivate the crew.

As a cheerleader or a player?

[greenbeans]

What the H, give the chief a quaker of some sticky and throw him out there for 10mpg

[Joebiscuit]

So... if hes done for the season, are they gonna suck it up and actually tell us what is wrong?

this is such ****, they either have incompetant medical staff who did completely the wrong thing, or they knew and blatently lied to the fans for weeks

meanwhile, whens the last time anyone saw... or heard from KG publicly?

I believe the celtics are still holding out hope he can come back. I do not think they are going to flat out say that KG is done for the year.

The celtics staff is not incompetent. Like I said this is a situation where if KG got surgery there would be ZERO chance he could come back. I believe they (the celtics and KG) decided that rest would hopefully be enough to get KG better.

My guess is that no one has seen KG. That is why the lack of real inside reports are lacking. I am surprised that no one has really told us what is going on.

[TA42]

I'm holding out hope that it's partially Doc trying to semi-motivate his current roster to man up and realize that they're going to have to do this on their own.

No more, don't worry...we'll be better when KG gets back.

Doc's basically letting his team know, "KG won't be their to save your asses...how you going to react?"

I hope the team steps up. I also hope that Paul takes this as a chance to cement his status among the greatest C's of all time.

[JCizzle]

We need to bring Antoine in to motivate the crew.

As a cheerleader or a player?

I kid i kid.

[slump]

Even without KG, we have a ton of talent. Our margin for error is going to be slimmer and our bench will have to play great ball, but worse teams have done it.

And if there's a chance KG can come back for the playoffs, we need to take each round to the max number of games. Maybe more rest + treatment = KG in the finals. How's that for blind optimism.

[BeanTownBrawler]

So... if KG had the surgery right away, would he have been healed by now?

[BRUNiNHO91]

I'm holding out hope that it's partially Doc trying to semi-motivate his current roster to man up and realize that they're going to have to do this on their own.

No more, don't worry...we'll be better when KG gets back.

Doc's basically letting his team know, "KG won't be their to save your asses...how you going to react?"

I hope the team steps up. I also hope that Paul takes this as a chance to cement his status among the greatest C's of all time.

Paul Pierce has been cemented as top 5 greatest Celtics the minute he lifted that finals MVP trophy...no need to put this all on him. Paul can only do so much. He will fight like hell to take this team as far as he can without KG, yet he will need the teams help....and I believe he will take the team alot further than KG would, if Pierce was the one injured. I just hope people don't start busting out 'trade Pierce' threads all over, if he has a bad game and we get bumped out...

[Joebiscuit]

So... if KG had the surgery right away, would he have been healed by now?

My guess is no. Knee surgery can be tricky.

[Avalanche]

depends on what the issue actually is... which no one is saying

[BRUNiNHO91]

Ain't that right...when the hell will somebody actually tell us wtf is going on with his knee?? I mean, they contradict themselves like 100 times over the course of 3 days, than they shut the man down for the season..and yet there is still no official word on wether or not he is done for the year, for the 1st round..or anything like that..and we still don't know what's going to happen with the knee..KG hasn't spoken in like 300 years...but hey..I remember sometime ago Danny and Doc said Scal was done for the season...yet he suits up in the last 4 games...so Idk...I might be kidding myself but I just can't help but think(or hope) KG makes it back in a couple weeks...

[ParticleMan]

KG has a sprained somthing-or-another ligament that can't be fixed with surgery. it's just rest. the bone spur can be fixed, but that's not the main issue. the spur is painful but he could play on it. the sprained ligament is the major problem.

so surgery was never an option. it's just that it hasn't gotten better. too many miles on the old knobbers.

[Avalanche]

From the globe:

Kevin Garnett will miss the NBA playoffs and likely have surgery on his right knee during the offseason, Celtics coach Doc Rivers said today.

The surgery will be to remove a spur in Garnett's knee. But a strained popliteus tendon -- and not the spur -- has affected Garnett's inability to return from a Feb. 19 injury. The tendon strain must heal naturally, and has taken longer than anticipated.

more info http://www.sportsinjurybulletin.com/arc ... iteus.html

so.... if we make the conference finals and give him another 3-4 weeks, theres hope?

ah **** it, i might be grasping at straws but i dont want the playoffs to play out like this

[SwiLL2432]

This is a blow to the NBA to be honest. As much as I am NOT a KG fan, I like to the see the NBA succeed and I knew how much it sucked when Bynum got hurt last year. Hopefully he can return next year at full strength, I would of really like to see a Boston LA rematch!

Well good luck in the playoffs.....even though I still do not like a single one of you! (green font, literally) lol

[Brooklyn Zoo]

I started today disappointed in the Celtics deminished chances of winning the chip, but now I'm starting to feel a much deeper, more somber sense of dread that the career of my favorite player might be coming to an end.

I know that every player has to hang them up, but KG is a unique case for me. We're almost the same age, for starters. With MJ and Barkley and Ewing those guys always seemed old and tired and being 35 sounded like an old man. But this someone who I've watched for the last 13 years, someone who seemed indesrtucible, who took care of him self and played almost everygame through his career.

At 31 was still playing some of the best ball of his career and showed no real sign of slowing down. He wasn't puffing up like most aging vets, he still had the fire and the hops and the skill and the passion, and all of a sudden, through a front office smokescreen, it could be near an end. If microfracture surgery is needed, he'd be 34 and on a bad knee by the time he got back into a game, and I'm sure the rust and the injury would make him a different player.

Not to be too dramatic, but I really really hope that if the C's get to a place where they have a chance at the chammpionship they just let KG ply it out, injury be damned. Better to go out swinging than in perpetual rehab and inactive list. Try to defend the chamionship, have all the surgery you need, take a full season off (insurance oney covering the salary) and then give it a final shot.

[Jammer]

KG has a sprained somthing-or-another ligament that can't be fixed with surgery. it's just rest. the bone spur can be fixed, but that's not the main issue. the spur is painful but he could play on it. the sprained ligament is the major problem.

so surgery was never an option. it's just that it hasn't gotten better. too many miles on the old knobbers.

I hear ya, but the reports of the knee locking up are consistent with loose cartilage, which should/must be cleaned up with surgery, which could have been done in January, KG was visibly laboring to run the floor before he went down with his "official" knee sprain.

Several times in November AND DECEMBER I thought to myself that KG looked gimpy, at times, as if his knee was locking up while running the floor, despite the 27-2 start. I feel that the Celtics haven't been totally honest with fans about where he stood. Sprains heal, the length of time KG has had to recuperate is two months.

I hear what you're saying, but it still sounds to me like we don't have the whole story.
Coincidentally and unfortunately, Danny Ainge is not available to answer questions on the matter due to a mild heart attack.

After KG's bone spur surgery we'll probably hear something along the lines of
while they were at it the doctors cleaned up some loose cartilage.

I stand by my earlier posts of the past few weeks that this injury has not been managed properly.

And, Doc's comments Thursday that riding a stationary bike and working out
are causing swelling and stiffness in KG's knee are not encouraging.

[The Corey's]

you know what, i wonder if there just telling us he is out for the playoffs so the fans can brace for that when in reality the ECF is weeks from now, and its possible that if the celts get there he could be ready.

remember people, he said it wasnt offical, just as of today he didnt think so.

[Jammer]

you know what, i wonder if there just telling us he is out for the playoffs so the fans can brace for that when in reality the ECF is weeks from now, and its possible that if the celts get there he could be ready.

remember people, he said it wasnt offical, just as of today he didnt think so.

Doc's comments Thursday that
"if it hasn't healed, it's not gonna heal"

and that riding a bike and working out are causing swelling and stiffness are not encouraging.

[Avalanche]

It would have to heal eventually though..... i have no idea when that eventually is, but lets just extend our run as far as possible and keep our fingers crossed