Amare Has Bulging Disc, Out 2-4 Weeks, Taking Epidural

[vallen]

you guys act like our medical staff hasn't historically blown smoke up our asses. half the homers here didnt even believe baron was hurt, and his date was pushed back from the original date our med staff gave us, only months ago.

ewing
houston
curry

pr always spinning best possible returns, rather then worse case scenarios. history has proved this. anyone remember when they just threw H20 out there and he couldnt even run the floor ? it was embarrassing and painful because you knew he was just doing damage control for his team.

[knicksosmoove]

I worry more about Jeffries and Lin being out than Stoudemire. With him, Melo, and Lin, there are too many high maintenance players. I think there could be more focus with the offense with just melo and lin as the primary guys.

[MigrainePatrol]

I worry more about Jeffries and Lin being out than Stoudemire. With him, Melo, and Lin, there are too many high maintenance players. I think there could be more focus with the offense with just melo and lin as the primary guys.

As good as Tyson is, he's no where near Amar'e in terms of post scoring or cleaning up when Amar'e was just returning to form in that short stretch. Man helped Knicks win several games and without that Amar'e Knicks have really no chance to make a deep PlayOff run. Jorts is just too fat imo to compensate, guy is listed @ 270lb but probably pushing 300lbs or more. Novak better learn how to play some 4 real quick...

[stuporman]

any disc that has been dislodged-- bulging or herniated-- from between the vertebrae will never quite be the same. the same phenomenon can be seen with dislocated shoulders. the injury is likely to repeat.

Do you have any medical degree or any basis to say that a disk problem is equivalent to a dislocated shoulder?

i have both an empirical and experiential basis:

It's pretty clear you don't know the difference between what is considered empirical and considered anecdotal.

Empirical or what is proven fact is repeatable, testable and researched data, not one example.
Anecdotal or what is not fact is:this one player that, or I had a friend that or this one time that.

[NoMoreThrees]

amare being out is a huge blow. just gotta hope he can get better for next season.

[gethigh]

you guys act like our medical staff hasn't historically blown smoke up our asses. half the homers here didnt even believe baron was hurt, and his date was pushed back from the original date our med staff gave us, only months ago.

ewing
houston
curry

pr always spinning best possible returns, rather then worse case scenarios. history has proved this. anyone remember when they just threw H20 out there and he couldnt even run the floor ? it was embarrassing and painful because you knew he was just doing damage control for his team.

I'm convinced the Knicks have the worst medical staff in the league (well, Portland is worst).

[NoMoreThrees]

you guys act like our medical staff hasn't historically blown smoke up our asses. half the homers here didnt even believe baron was hurt, and his date was pushed back from the original date our med staff gave us, only months ago.

ewing
houston
curry

pr always spinning best possible returns, rather then worse case scenarios. history has proved this. anyone remember when they just threw H20 out there and he couldnt even run the floor ? it was embarrassing and painful because you knew he was just doing damage control for his team.

I'm convinced the Knicks have the worst medical staff in the league (well, Portland is worst).

we make players play hurt until they ewing themselves. and just go down for a long time.

is this same thing amare did to himself against boston last year. if it was then the knicks suck for forcing him to play until he got real hurt.

[MasterDebater]

Greetings,

During the Magic game, did Mike Breen say Amare came out and the crowd boo'ed him?

I was in the bathroom and I thought maybe I heard that.

[blumatic]

I didnt hear that. I would be surprised if they did. Amare doesnt garner the hate from the Garden ae he does from some posters hear. He is very much appreciated. But the injury is worrisome.

[GONYK]

Amare wasn't there tonight

[boomann21]

In the seven games Stoudemire has missed opponents have scored 89.4 points per game and shot 40.7 percent from the floor.

In the 43 games Stoudemire has played, the Knicks are five games under .500 (19-24). Opponents average more than 95 points per game and shoot better than 44 percent from the floor.

Stoudemire's plus-minus rating this season is -47. The only player on the Knicks with a worse plus-minus is Mike Bibby at -77.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/39521/why-knicks-might-not-miss-stoudemire

[TrueWarrior]

Numbers like that dont lie.

[GONYK]

Numbers like that dont lie.

Nobody on the team was playing defense before Woodson, and Amare has been playing much better defense since Woodson

[knickabocker88]

Nobody wants to say it tho

If we continue to play well, I hope he doesn't feel the need to rush back.