No Mo Powe

Shoot…

Does anyone else feel like these obstacles are becoming insurmountable? I love this guy, but he very well may have played his last game in green. All the best to Leon is the future.

The one thing I wanted for the playoffs was no more injuries and I can’t even get that wish :-(
I really love seeing him out there and I hope he’ll be back with Cs next season. I pray for a safe surgery and swift recovery and that he rebounds from this injury as strongly as he has from the past ones.

…this may bring Leon’s price down to something we can afford next year. He might stick around. Hope so.

But this year is done. We can’t fight the gods… they clearly had it in for us this year.

If it’s Lakers vs. Cavs… I’ll root for the Lakers. They are our valiant battlefield opponents, and i will miss the rematch both sides wanted… but wish them well. Lebron’s going to have his day though, sooner or later.

so that bodes well for Leon. I’d say he’s the most down to earth player on the team. He appears very humble and resepctful.

I can’t take the injuries either. It’s utterly ridiculous at this point. KG, Pllleeease come back!

How many times has that knee been reconstructed?

Will all this adversity, if we do win this one, it would be the sweetest championship ever.

Never has UBUNTU meant so much.

Powe’s already had ACL tears on both knees, making this his 3rd such tear. I can’t imagine what’s going through his mind right now. Hang in there, Leon. We love you.

This obviously puts our playoff push in serious jeopardy. Scal might be back on Thursday, so that’ll help a little. Anybody know if we can still petition the NBA for an extra roster spot?

As for Leon’s impending free agency, I’d assume the team will tender him a qualifying offer and that Leon will accept it. It should be relatively cheap and allow him a year to show he’s recovered from surgery. I don’t assume any other team will offer anything better, nor do I assume the Cs will kick him to the curb.

it’s worrisome that the knee went on a seemingly meaningless play and without much contact if any- just like his prior injury. It doesn’t bode well for Leon’s ability to stay healthy. It’s a shame because he’s such a great guy and he was an integral part of what we were doing. baby’s leverage just increased significantly. I also have to wonder whether the injury on the other knee created this injury perhaps because he was favoring one leg over the other. maybe he shouldn’t have come back.

for a guy who’s had his fair share of tough breaks. this one’s got to hurt the most. if he had just made it through this year he probably would’ve gotten a pretty decent contract.

Leon has the TPACL’s…

Devastating! Horrible news for Leon! :(

I’m afraid to say it but that might be his career. I mean three ACL tears! Dam that sucks!

We, and most if not everyone sitting around us, did not even know Powe was injured. That is how unremarkable it was. I still do not know when it happened.

Who replaces Powe on the Roster?

about whether the Celtics could still contend for the title this year, I think this puts all those questions to rest. No way we win the title so shorthanded up front.

It is amazing how well the Celtics have played without Garnett and Powe (and others) during the past month or two. This proves that this team has just as much heart as did the injury plagued ’87 Celtics.

1987 NBA Finals:

“The Boston bench, which seemed so deep in 1986, rapidly disintegrated. After an early-season accident on a stationary bike, Bill Walton was sidelined with the foot injuries that had plagued him throughout his career. Scott Wedman was struck down by a heel injury and never played for Boston again, and Jerry Sichting was slowed by a persistent virus. To bolster the frontcourt, the Celtics picked up Darren Daye and Fred Roberts, but they needed time to build confidence. Without a strong bench, the Boston starters were forced to play Herculean minutes. As a result, Bird, Danny Ainge and Robert Parish were each troubled by nagging injuries. Then, late in the season, McHale broke a navicular bone in his right foot and tore ligaments as well. The doctors were worried that continued play might cause McHale permanent damage, but because the Celtics seemed to have a good chance in the playoffs, he decided to play hurt.” -NBA.com

Is that the same lebron that was wearing a yankee cap and telling the NY press that he would love to play there..oh, and this was done while introducing his new signature shoe series in Madison Square Garden ?….Leon on the other hand, is a real team player..hope he comes back 100%….if the Lakers do end up playing Cleveland…I’ll be watching baseball..

ouch. Terrible news. And is it just me, or are the celtics getting to the point where they have nothing left to lose? With the injuries, whatever team we face is going to be the favorite. We allready won last year. We might as well be the 8 seed now, because we can only go up from here.

Awful news — potential series swinger too. At least Scal might be coming back.

As bad as he feels now with the injury, and missing the playoffs, he’s about to feel worse when he loses a huge dollop of that money he would have earned this summer.

……we wouldn’t have any news at all.
Broke my heart to hear the MRI report today. I was afraid of that last night when Doc said “it doesn’t look good” for Leon. Palpation and manipulative efforts by the medical staff on the injured knee last night meant it was not a surprise to the staff as it was to the rest of us today
In contrast to our previous discussions re: KG’s knee, Leon’s knee HAS structural damage.
Best to you Leon.
We’ll miss you and look for you back in the fall.

bad comes in threes— kg-danny—powe. that’s it. powe is a warrior and we will miss him this year. he’ll be back because he overcomes adversity. when he does, i hope it’s with us.

We’ve seen other ACLs: TA…We’ve seen a Meniscus: Bynum…We’ve seen strains: KG…somehow the pictures I have stored in memory are a tad different than what I saw of Powe:

Rivers said Powe hurt himself on a spin move but stayed on the court trying to play.
“He played 3 minutes with a torn ACL,” Rivers said. “That says so much about Leon Powe the person.”

He’d better make it back and It’d better be with the Celtics…Finished Business!

hahaha the celtics are overated and they definetly wont win another game. The bulls are just the better team with garnett out

that is really awful news. i love this guy, and i dont think anybody on the bulls can gaurd him in the low post

poor guy, dang

BTW, anybody doubting the story. I played for 20 minutes or so on a torn ACL the day I did it and then off and on for six months afterwards not knowing what it was. That can happen. (of course I did not tear any cartiledge, which is apparently the more painful aspect)

I love Leon, but his knees have not been kind to him over the course of his basketball career. I had pretty much become ok with the fact that the Celtics may not re-sign him this offseason because surely he would be offered a nice chunk of money elsewhere. However, this injury changes things. Perhaps, selfishly, Celtics fans will get to see a lot more of Leon in the future if he re-signs at a decent price. But as a fan of a truly genuine guy and an even harder worker, I really wanted to see Leon break the bank for himself. Let’s hope he can still do that.

Come contract time, the Celts had to decide between Powe & Baby.
Now, the decision has been made.

Another game, another injury! How many body-blows is one team suppose to absorb over a period of two months?

Oh well, thanks, Ray…at least our 1st round exit will not be a sweep!

For those who may have been wondering after watching Games 1 & 2….the Bulls were a sparkling 13-28 on the ROAD this year!

Celtics fired Lucky the mascot just before the start of February.

Since Lucky`s firing :

-Celts lose at home to Lakers
-Scal got injured
-KG got injured
-Pruitt gets DUI
-Powe got injured {twice}
-Baby missed games to injury
-Rondo misses games to injury
-Marbury signs and gives us no results
-Ainge has heart attack

I couldn`t stand Lucky when he was here…now I greatly miss him!!!

Now they might be able to afford to resign him. BBD is likely beyond their budget at this point.

I think what’s happened to Danny and Scals this season should put all this into proper perspective. I feel so bad for Leon, but he’ll be back.

Lousy break for Powe & the C’s. Hopefully, he’ll recover & resign.

How did he limp around on court for 3 minutes with a torn ACL? He was noticeably slow, but somehow he stayed in the game?

“The grafted ligament eventually becomes as strong as or even stronger than the original ACL. Graft failure, at worst, is less than 5 percent.”

Doing some preliminary research to determine fact from fiction – as I thought, previous injury is not the determinant on the success of future surgery – If Leon has a successful surgery and doesn’t rush his rehab, as he did previously, he has an extremely high probability of coming back 100 percent WITHOUT any increased risk due to previous injury.

Considering the level of treatment he will receive and his age, I expect a full recovery and I hope the Celtics due right by him and somewhat take advantage of the situation at the same time by giving him a team-favorable deal.

Tough break for a tough kid, has been through a lot of adversity in life. I hope he has successful surgery and comes back 100% as a CELTIC !!!!

I would never bet against Leon making it back. DA can now bring both BB and Powe back next year. I wonder if we could end up being a phoenix east down the road with Rondo reprising the Nash role and with a lot of runners and shooters. Hopefully better D though.