MacMullan: Give KG Rest

Take your time KG. Personally, I’d be concerned if he returns before March…..late March would be ideal.

Take your time.

why not! without kg, we are a good team, but an easy out in the playoffs. the cavs would eat us up in the playoffs if they had all their soldiers. we are playing with intensity but just watch for 5 mins. the defense is not as dominating and choking.

If what folks say about this injury is true – that it is debilitatingly painful to make sudden movements, cough too hard, stand up too quickly, etc. – then I don’t want KG on the bench, behind the bench, in the locker room, or anywhere near the arena. I want him laying in bed watching soothing and calming movies and being fed by a maid. Unless he’s participating in doctor-prescribed treatment/rehab, KG needs to be resting. Period.

I, personally, don’t ever remember a player just flat-out not showing up to cheer on his team mates. Add to this the “We not Me” mentality and the wondrous “Ubuntu” and it damn near becomes a political scene…

But, as for the abdominal strain, I now see it as extremely serious business…Boston.com has an article from a couple days ago quoting Del Harris on Shaq’s abdominal strain in the nineties when he missed 21 games, flew to Vancouver to visit a “magician” of a physical therapist who as Harris puts it saved the Lakers’ season and perhaps Shaq’s career. It also mentions that it was such a strain that forced Jerry West into retirement at 35. These are haunting facts…KG should not be playing basketball until the strain is 100% healed…Period!

for years i’ve been suffering from the effects of not shutting it down after an abdominal strain. the results were hernia surgery on my left side and three distinct strains on my right side that have not fully healed for half a decade.

i am all for KG sitting till april if it is what it takes.
the man is our ticket and there is no reason we should let him get torn up before the show starts.

You know KG is about as intense as a human being could be. I think it’s all or nothing him. If KG is able to sit/stand/cheer/clap he’s going to be on the floor, not happily lounging on the bench hoping to get better.

I have no problem with him staying away from the bench. He IS at all the games, which says something. Any other millionaire would be at home lying in bed, chewing on Percoset, watching his 65" flat screen. Not hanging out in a locker room.

BoundingRounder said:
  I, personally, don’t ever remember a player just flat-out not showing up to cheer on his team mates. Add to this the “We not Me” mentality and the wondrous “Ubuntu” and it d**n near becomes a political scene…

I do. Larry Bird. Bird gave up his body for the Celtics. He played a game and then went to the hospital to be put in traction because of his bad back. Then he came back and played the next game. It was hard for him to be on the bench during games when he was not able to play and early in his career he did not. KG is at the game. He’s been traveling with the team. Do you think he doesn’t care about his teamates? I think this is the way KG is. Let it be. It’s not a big deal. If the injury goes on for months and he comes to better terms in accepting it maybe he will be on the bench. KG will go to the wall for the C’s and his teamates. Remember what he did to seal the win against the T’Wolves. That was the game where he got hurt. He went into the dressing room, hardly able to get there and then came back out and sealed the win with a steal and dive to the floor for a loose ball. Let’s be happy he’s here, and let him work out his problems in his own way.

Thanks TrueGreen, I didn’t remember Bird not being there…I do remember him being there and then heading to the hospital after the game, and I do recall his agonizing lying on his stomach doing stretching exercises to attempt the impossible while the team competed on the floor, but his remaining in the locker room while the game was on, I simply didn’t recall…Thanks again…

I agree, KG needs to rest this injury and not be stupid. BUT, I would be extra happy if that rest period does in fact end in Denver, where I have tickets. Only get to see a game or two a season now that I am in the west. Would love to see him in the line-up, and healthy.

yeah…i wanna see KG get healthy too. But i have dream tickets for the boston game with golden state on the 20th. I’m torn! :(

The Suns are just an abdominal strain away from the lottery…..But seriously, this KG injury is very, very dicey and (I’ll be very quiet) could be career ending. The C’s will have to monitor him very closely from now on. As others have stated, this type of injury is very hard to manage. Shaq had some expert on the West Coast look at him when he had his strain and Shaq credits him for saving his career. The Cs should look up that physician.

It is absolutely essential to the Cs in the long term that KG is totally healthy when he returns to the lineup. If that means he stays in the locker room so he is not jumping around on the
bench then so be it. The Cs go nowhere without a healthy Garnett. That is a no brainer. As for cheering his teammates the other 7 guys on the bench will just have to pick up the slack.

Was it Mike Piazza or another all-star catcher who was out 4 months with an abdominal strain. I seem to remember many visitors to this sight doubting Big Al’s durability. It hasn’t been a problem so far this season.