Years90Suns wrote:NBA is not like amateur sports.
I do not want to compare my life to that of a professional athlete.
But I had a back operation with 40. I will be 50 in 2 months and carry 4 screws and two pieces of metal, together with some kind of concrete between my L4-L5 vertebrae.
I am able to practice daily if work and family let me.
Being that young and with all the professional team around, he will be able to play again. But the body needs time to adjust to the changes.
yea you are way off on this. There is a MASSIVE difference between having one fusion surgery (like you had) and several disketomies (like MPJ has had).
I am a much better example than you. I was an avid basketball player (3 hours per day, 6-7 days per week) and had 3 disketomies between ages 26-30. After my 3rd one the doctor told me I could never play basketball or even run/jump ever again.
The multiple surgeries led to scar tissue (something I'm sure MPJ is dealing with), the scar tissue rubs up against the nerve, the disk becomes more and more weak after each disketomy.
20+ years since then and I've had 5 more back surgeries, all disketomies.
As I've been saying here since before he was drafted, MPJ is a walking time bomb and will never have a long career. I said back then he might make it a year or two but eventually his disk will leak again and he will need more surgeries. So far I've benn 100% correct with every prediction I've made about MPJ.
He is completely screwed and will never have a productive career. If he comes back and tries to play he will definitely end up right back here again in the near future.