KG Back To Boston For MRI
by Jeff Clark on Feb 20, 2009 3:39 PM EST
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Celtics president Danny Ainge confirmed that injured All-Star forward Kevin Garnett was sent back to Boston for evaluation on his injured right knee and is expected to miss the final three games of a six-game West road trip. The All-Star is slated to see Dr. Brian McKeon tomorrow at New England Baptist Hospital tomorrow. Garnett strained his right knee in the second quarter during last night's game at Utah. The rest of the Celtics' road trip that includes games at Phoenix on Sunday, Denver on Monday and the Clippers on Wednesday. "We are being cautious," said Ainge, via text message.
[from the forums] Jon Barry just reported on ESPN that he heard "it's gonna be a month" before KG returns. - [unconfirmed]
Kevin Garnett, who left last night's game after straining his right knee in the second quarter of the Celtics' 90-85 loss to the Jazz, has returned to Boston on his own to get an MRI, according to ESPN. We'll have more details coming this morning.
Update: WEEI is reporting that KG will miss the rest of the road trip. (h/t to Bankshot)
Garnett will stay in Boston for the remaining three games of the Celtics' West Coast trip, Danny Ainge, the team's executive director of basketball operations, told ESPN NBA analyst Jackie MacMullan.
The Celtics' road trip continues with a game against the Suns in Phoenix on Sunday. Boston returns home next Friday to play Indiana.
Still no word on the results of the MRI.
Update: No MRI Results until Saturday (see above)
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*crosses fingers*
Better getting moving on Joe Smith/Mikki Moore/Chris Mihm…
God bless and good night!
by BrickJames on Feb 20, 2009 11:12 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Gingerly
Had anyone else noticed he occasionally be favoring a leg when he’d come in and out of games? Anyways I’m hoping we’re not looking at an MCL or worse here, but it’s a real possibility, and if Garnett is out, we’re basically done for the year.
by Brendan on Feb 20, 2009 11:14 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Deffinetly noticed the favoring ever since a game in early december against the wizards
by TheAncientRivalry on Feb 20, 2009 11:24 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He's been limping for months.
I watch all the games so it runs together but probably 4-6 weeks ago he was limping so badly in the runway it looked like he’d just turned his ankle over. I too worry its an mcl. I have had patients who were functioning well with chronic mcl tears. playing soccer competitively, rec basketball at the Univ wash where I work. So what I am worried about is that they do the mri and it shows an mcl and they shut him down even if it looks old I think he has had it for awhile but the rest of the joint may be holding it together.
Three things: if its a mild mcl tear, they just have to shut him down anyway because a moment can occur where he blows the acl too.
The hope has to be that its more likely a collateral ligament injury with meniscus tear. And he can get by with that for awhile.
I saw Al’s injury I felt there was no way it was an acl.:>(
by wahz on Feb 20, 2009 11:27 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
A lot of times with knee injuries you can’t really tell anything just watching the play where they hurt it (there are exceptions of course, like Shawn Livingston, for example). With KG last night you could see a little bit that he actually looked like he hurt it not when he jumped for the oop attempt, but when he planted a second earlier. As soon as he didn’t come out to play in the second half I just knew he was gonna need an MRI. That’s not something you want to guess with, it’s always better to know for sure what the real story is. Hopefully we’ll have the results sometime today. The waiting is the worst part.
by WildYams on Feb 20, 2009 11:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I am worried! Hopefully he just needs some rest…
by thebirdman on Feb 20, 2009 11:42 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Are we still wanting to go to war with what we have?
Danny/Doc- ready to go to war with out bench improvement (playoffs).
You fail to prepare, prepare to fail. No doubt any team lose out on any superstar, tough to go all the way, but this bench got outscored by 11 points last night in a very winnable, impressive potential road win.
by brianceltfan on Feb 20, 2009 11:43 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
If KG's out...
I’d have to agree that we’re done for the season. If that happens, they should bring Sam back as a coach, forget about adding new pieces, play our youngsters a lot, and basically have a party from now on. At least that way we don’t have to agonize over idiot refs, blown games, Leon Powe, Tony Allen, etc., and we can figure out who we want to keep vs. not.
by DRJ1 on Feb 20, 2009 11:43 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
It would depend on how long he’s out for. As far as I’m concerned he only needs to be healthy for the playoffs. Boston won’t need KG to make the playoffs or get past the first round, so if KG is back ready for the 2nd round, then the Celtics should be in good shape.
by WildYams on Feb 20, 2009 11:54 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Meniscus Tear with a strianed ligament
Depending on the location tear of the meniscus it could be easily scoped arthroscopically and KG back in 3 weeks.
If it is tore then it must be fixed NOW because a longer tear y playing on it injured will be bad over the longer term. The longer the tear the more you lose in surgery because they cannot sew it and they have to cut it out (menisectomy) and the more you lose the less cushion yoo have. Mine is all gone in my right knee after three arthroscopic meniscus repairs and a 4th ACL repair with more meniscus removed. Fix it NOW if it is meniscus.
Hope for just tendinitis or strain.
Is it Soup Yet?
by Master Po on Feb 20, 2009 11:51 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
good grief
Are you knees made of people parts still?
How’d you do that? Too much Ramming It Low as a lad?
When Perk was asked what he thought of Howard winning the gold medal this summer, he responded: "What’s his impression of me after I won a ring?"
by Green17 on Feb 20, 2009 12:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Just heard on WEEI
that KG will miss the rest of the road trip (5 games).
by Bankshot on Feb 20, 2009 12:21 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
the rest of this road trip is only 3 games
by WillyBeamin on Feb 20, 2009 12:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
uhhh
phx on sunday
denver on monday
clippers on wed
back home for the pacers on friday…
by WillyBeamin on Feb 20, 2009 12:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
is that what they are reporting now?
"Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me." Michael Scott
by Jeff Clark on Feb 20, 2009 12:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I didn't hear on WEEI
but the rest of the road trip is only 3 more games, so if what they said was “rest of the road trip” then its 3 games, not 5.
by WillyBeamin on Feb 20, 2009 12:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
yup 3 games minimum
ESPN reports he will miss remainder of road trip, 3 games:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3920443
by WillyBeamin on Feb 20, 2009 12:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
yeah…this isn’t shocking news. If we’d thought about it, its kind of obvious.
When Perk was asked what he thought of Howard winning the gold medal this summer, he responded: "What’s his impression of me after I won a ring?"
by Green17 on Feb 20, 2009 12:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Better 3 games than what happened to Amare
by Wax on Feb 20, 2009 1:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
This is the risk
Danny took bringing in older players with lots of miles on the odometer. Granted, AlJeff got hurt as well but KG has never had a major injury until last year with the stomach muscle strain and now this. You get the feeling he is starting to break down a bit.
by The Real Large James 2 on Feb 20, 2009 12:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
easy there big fella
he missed 11 games last year, hardly injury prone or anything serious.
now depending on this knee, that could be somethign serious, but lets just hope it’s a strain.
there are much younger players with far-fewer miles league-wide who are lost for the season.
by WillyBeamin on Feb 20, 2009 1:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Other teams fans dancing in the streets
It’s amazing how little respect the returning champs get from the fans and even some players.
by BOSPORTS on Feb 20, 2009 1:02 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
guess what
We took a risk and got a title it wasn’t going to happen any other way so all of you fans shut up man,,,yes the three are old and no we’re not repeating but we will prob win one more title. By the way have you all lost your jobs I mean the US economy sucks so m aybe some of you have nothing better to do then blog about KG’s injury. It’s late here in Dubai so I have an excuse what’s yours at 1:15 on a work day? Or do your bosses not care?
by richardlight on Feb 20, 2009 1:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
easy man
it’s friday… lunch hour, time is exactly what I have right now.
by WillyBeamin on Feb 20, 2009 1:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
wait…you know this is a blog about the celtics right? what would you expect here?
When Perk was asked what he thought of Howard winning the gold medal this summer, he responded: "What’s his impression of me after I won a ring?"
by Green17 on Feb 20, 2009 1:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
1) bringing KG to Boston was a great move; and 2) this news sucks any way you look at it
by jurrasicearl on Feb 20, 2009 1:21 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
let's not jump the gun
here is hope for the best….for KG.
Until we get get definate word we can speculate all we want but the bottom line is KG is out indifinately.SO the C’s need to get it together and win without him.The rest of the league ain’t gonna feel sorry for hte CHAMPS.
by tommyfan on Feb 20, 2009 1:39 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
If it’s really just three games he’s out, then good. Let it get well. Better to maybe lose out on homecourt to Cleveland than to have KG out for an extended period; no #18 without him (tough enough WITH him).
So, Scal in the starting rotation, with Powe and BBD getting more minutes off the bench? We’re just so short bodies right now, we better hope that SOMEONE gets bought out soon! I wonder if they’ll sign someone tall to a 10-day contract, just so they can run practices.
by theBird on Feb 20, 2009 1:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Laker Trolls
Thank you Jeff for sweeping away the garbage. Some of them just can’t help themselves. That being said, I think we all can agree anyone with a thoughtful opinion is welcome
by overthebackboardooh on Feb 20, 2009 2:10 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
absolutely
Laker fans are welcome here
Laker trolls are not
the great thing is that most trolls only care about needing to be paid attention to – but when their comments get swept away, whatever efforts they just made to be seen go for naught
"Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me." Michael Scott
by Jeff Clark on Feb 20, 2009 2:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Thanks
I appreciate the welcome. I have been lurking for a while and have just decided to join at your invitation. I have seen that the Celtics have some very thoughtful and basketball savvy fans.
I’ve been a Lakers fan for 40+ years. Speaking for my group of thoughtful and educated fans, we love to hate your team. Great rivalries are what makes sports fun. Yes we love to enflame your passions and I am guilty of that as much as anyone, but I won’t flame or act like a troll because I hate that on the Lakers blog.
But, my questions are not always going to be popular with you guys,ok? So let’s agree to at least be civil. Last time I had some fun with a group of Celtics fans they threatened to burn my house and children! (see YouTube).
So, any way here’s my first one,
“Do you see KG’s injury being as damaging to the Celtics as losing Andrew Bynum is to the Lakers?”
The next one is
“Who do I see for a pass so I can attend a Finals game this year in Boston without getting beat up?”
Cheers all
by LovetheRivalry on Feb 20, 2009 5:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
If KG is out for the same 8-12 weeks that Bynum supposedly is (and let’s hope that’s not the case), then that’s definitely going to have much more of an impact than Bynum’s injury has. For one thing, 8-12 weeks from now means a lot less time to heal for the playoffs and Finals than Bynum’s had with getting hurt almost a month earlier. But, even more important, Garnett is just a much bigger part of what Boston does than what Bynum contributes to the Lakers. The Celtics are gonna need KG to get past Cleveland for sure, and probably to get past Orlando as well, should Boston and the Magic square off in the postseason. The Lakers, on the other hand, proved last year they don’t need Bynum to come out of the West.
In other words, a 2-3 month Garnett absence would be much worse for his team than Bynum’s is.
by WildYams on Feb 20, 2009 5:53 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Good point. Andrew will have a bit more time to get ready for the playoffs, unless the 8-12 week estimate ends up being like last year’s. They say he is doing much better than last year so we’ll see. I am not saying that Andrew is anywhere near the player that KG is at this stage of his career. But, he is our best (and some would say only) interior defender. He was starting to become downright nasty in the paint. You guys exposed that last year in the Finals, and I dare say that the result might have been much different had he not been injured last year. If he comes in tentative this year and you have KG back, I think Bynum will have suffered the more damaging injury to his team.
by LovetheRivalry on Feb 20, 2009 6:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
If KG has a serious injury, then KG is a far bigger loss to the Celtics than Bynum is to the Lakers.
Garnett is the superior player and has a larger role within his own team.
by Who on Feb 20, 2009 6:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
anyone else just rocking back in forth in your chair refreshing Celticsblog every 5 minutes like me?
:(
by dobbs on Feb 20, 2009 2:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Yes
I suffer from Post Traumatic Tom Brady Syndrome….it’s part of the disease
by overthebackboardooh on Feb 20, 2009 2:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm with yah.
slow Friday at the office…
by WillyBeamin on Feb 20, 2009 2:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
what no bloodlust?
When Perk was asked what he thought of Howard winning the gold medal this summer, he responded: "What’s his impression of me after I won a ring?"
by Green17 on Feb 20, 2009 2:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Isn't it a little early?
If he didn’t fly back last night, then the earliest he likely left Utah was 9:00 Utah time (so, either 11:00 or 12:00 EST – too lazy to look that up). So, he won’t even be touching down in Boston until 4:00 or 5:00 EST. I wouldn’t count on any MRI results today.
by libermaniac on Feb 20, 2009 2:59 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
9am in Utah is 11am in Boston.
Flight takes 4.5 hours +/- depending on tailwind. So if that timeline hold, the earlier he would be in the MRI machine wouldn’t be for another hour or so.
However, I bet KG is an early riser and wouldn’t be surprised if he flew out earlier than 9.
When Perk was asked what he thought of Howard winning the gold medal this summer, he responded: "What’s his impression of me after I won a ring?"
by Green17 on Feb 20, 2009 3:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
And now ...
… missing POB, too! Just got traded to the Raptors!
by TheGreenThumb on Feb 20, 2009 2:39 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
agreed
with libermaniac.
but we are like worried parents.
by tommyfan on Feb 20, 2009 3:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
searching for panic button
/not really
//well, maybe
"Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me." Michael Scott
by Jeff Clark on Feb 20, 2009 3:40 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Jon Barry should not throw out numbers for how long KG will be out when KG has yet to get an MRI or see the doctor yet. Geesh.
by NoraG1 on Feb 20, 2009 3:49 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Try this....
You should not believe anything anyone on ESPN tells you about the NBA!
When Perk was asked what he thought of Howard winning the gold medal this summer, he responded: "What’s his impression of me after I won a ring?"
by Green17 on Feb 20, 2009 3:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
the other day
Stuart Scott was on ESPN and made the comment that the Celtics needed to make a move because “Cleveland is running away with the East” – at the time the Celtics led the Eastern Conference standings
"Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me." Michael Scott
by Jeff Clark on Feb 20, 2009 4:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I hate to say it, but KG has been teetering on this all season, and while it seemed obvious, the team completly left the fans in the dark, I mean 16/8 isnt KG on a winning or losing team.. its KG on a bum knee
Hopefully a month is worse case scenario, not best..but he needs rest, and at this point homecourt doesnt even matter. health does, and this puts that into perspective.
but…this team is something like 12-2 without kg in the lineup, they should be able to tread water without him for now, but if they start feeling like hes not coming back, it might emotionally drain the entire team..
There are alot of happy NBA fans out there today, sickening but fact
by TheAncientRivalry on Feb 20, 2009 3:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Time for the POwe Show!
Get well soon, KG. Take your time and get right, no need hurring back.
Number 0 will get it done until then. Leon has a knack of stepping up when we need him most.
by D Dub on Feb 20, 2009 4:07 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Leon Powe...
…needs one of those t-shirts that says “Don’t F—- with Mr. Zero” lol But you’re right, Powe (and BBD) need to step up big time. I REALLY hope the knee thing with KG isn’t serious and that they really are just being cautious. :(
by BleedinGreen417 on Feb 20, 2009 4:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Supposedly KG isn`t even in Boston yet. Adande said that in his chat. I am guessing if it really was “serious” he would be here already…
by thebirdman on Feb 20, 2009 5:38 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I'm on a boat
It seems like almost every post turns into something about the Lakers.
by Champzilla on Feb 20, 2009 7:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I hope it's nothing serious
and he’s back soon. Good luck to all of you.
by wondahbap on Feb 20, 2009 7:39 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
good luck to KG
it’s a long season for all we know kobe could go come with jordaniatis…. so let’s just hope our beloved C’s are healthy come April, May & June.
we need to take care of our own & the rest will fall in place.
remember we are the Champs.
Others want what we have… with that said I hope for a healthy Celtic team come playoff time.
Homecourt would be nice but not essential.
by tommyfan on Feb 20, 2009 9:50 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Why Does
Why does every post have to be taken over with laker fans yelling at celtic blog members, telling us what we can and cannot say ?
by Champzilla on Feb 20, 2009 11:18 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
BREAKING NEWS!
KG only out 2-3 weeks. Let’s all have a collected sigh of relief!
by SalmonAndMashedPotatoes on Feb 21, 2009 1:45 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
The Celts will be fine...if it is a minor injury
I think that all this doom and gloom about how the season is over and that we need to go out and get players like josh smith once and if they are bought out of their contracts is way over blown. yes if it is a major injury the Celtics are in trouble. but for a short time they will be fine they are 12-2 without KG and that will hold true especially if he only misses the trip they are on now. Utah is a hard place to win and they lost a close one late their with out Kg for the majority of the game. Now they should add some depth because they will need it but it is not life or death if it doesn’t happen. I still say repeat. Oh and yes Posey was an integral part of last years success and I still can’t believe he got away but the Celtics are still one of the top three teams in the NBA so apparently they can win without him. Just my late night ramblings.
by Gabecm21 on Feb 21, 2009 4:49 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
DOOM!
You guys are going to inspire Dr. Chesnutt to start blogging again…. http://celticsdoom.blogspot.com/
by LuckyNumber07 on Feb 21, 2009 7:05 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
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