Pascal Siakam Out Five Months With Surgery On Torn Labrum In Left Shoulder

[RealGM Wiretap]

Pascal Siakam has undergone successful surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder.

Siakam is expected to need approximately five months to recover from the surgery.

Siakam averaged 21.4 points, 7.2 rebounds and 4.5 assists in 35.8 minutes per game this season. 

The injury to Siakam's shoulder occurred on May 8th against the Memphis Grizzlies. 

Via RealGM Staff Report

[Qhawe]

I wonder why the surgery didn't happen earlier.

[BigTex]

I wonder why the surgery didn't happen earlier.

I don't know about this specfic injury, but in some types of injury, you want to wait until the initial inflamtion and swelling from the trauma have died down to do the operative repair. Just a guess as it applies here. But the one month post injury interval sounds about right.

[The_Hater]

I wonder why the surgery didn't happen earlier.

He hurt it just 4 weeks ago. Perhaps he got a couple of different opinions and was weighing whether or not to have surgery. The timeline doesn’t seem that far off when you’re making a major decision.

[zeebneeb]

I have had this exact surgery and for Raptor fans I have some concerning news. It's been two years since mine, and I still don't have full movement. The labrum helps keep your shoulder, in socket(my shoulder dislocated consistently until I had the surgery)so this is NOT rotator cuff surgery. (Mine was intact, just crushed as it slipped on one of my dislocations) It is extraordinarily painful, and the recovery, and physical therapy was brutal. Now it depends on how much other damage was done in the shoulder, but I had three anchors put in, and they also cut my bicep tendon and reattached it to the upper part of my shoulder, not where it originally went.

Hope for the best, but this is not going to be a normal everyday type of surgery. Just a heads up.