Camp Questions: How Healthy Is KG?

Okay, enough B.S. (management, KG, Doc, medical staff). No more games. We are all big boys and girls, just give us the straight dope on the knee.
Do we have staples or not? No hiding things like last season/playoffs.

“A lot is riding on KG’s health”? Thats putting it mildly. The whole season and foreseable future is riding on his health. No tickey-No landry. A Lot is less than everything?

If he does, he’ll hopefully won’t run Garnett into the ground chasing after every last regular season win. Let him toss a few minutes off to the likes of Williams and Scalabrine, especially during the first half of the season.

The way Ainge handled last year’s situation (which Simmons reported on quite accurately IMO at seasons end) left quite a bad taste in my mouth. Bill was dead on when he pointed out the weakness of the (print) media and how much easier it is in today’s world for a team to control what info gets to the public.

Honestly, I don’t think we’ll ever see KG at “one hundred percent” again. Thing is, Ainge couldn’t ever come out and say that, even if it was true….

When it takes this long to recover from a un-diagnosable knee ‘strain’ this late in a heavy-minutes type career, that’s it.
i hope I’m wrong….

I think KG’s pretty much fine, the injury just made him lost that step he was inadvertently gonna lose around this time in his career anyway (everyone does).

He’s still gonna be good, just probably not as good as he has been. This is just the Celtics’ way of making it not seem like a surprise.

And then if he actually makes a full recovery, they’re just gonna say they’re surprised by how well he’s playing (which people won’t mind).

I would tell it exactly like it is? Why in God’s good name would the Celts have to play mind games with their own fans? If the Celts misdiagnosed the injury last spring, fine it is unfortunate but it happens. But to compound that by lying to the fans- wrong.

I heard excuses like, it would have been a “downer” for the players not to have hope of KG’s return. Hogwash. We’ve watched Pierce torture himself for years as a 34W Celt teammate. Our team was not good enough to win without KG and Powe, admitting it or hiding it was not going to get us #18.

It is not a question of chilling. It is a question of integrity. Management has a fiduciary responsibility to the fans. They ask us to support the team through ticket sales, merchandise, etc; we ask for a good honest effort in return.

I am all for Doc playing KG slowly, 30 min. or less, peaking for the playoff run like a marathoner approaching the finish line. That can all be done without deceiving the fans. We fans have a right to know what the truthful status is of our player. And shame on the Boston media for allowing Ainge to come out and tell fluff stories like him and Jordon playing gold together, etc.

Why the media can’t get to the truth about this one way or the other on the staples is ridiculous. Our season hinges on KG’s knee and the media won’t and can’t find out the truth on it? Tell Danny we don’t want to hear about his golf game, or Doc we don’t want to hear how he spent his summer, or a co-owner’s political aspirations. Tell them we want the dirt on the knee.

I two saw the other blog about KG playing in Vegas. Someone was talking to this trainer name Joe that explaining what was happening in vegas. In explaining that he mentioned the players that was present that was playing pick up games. It sounded as though KG went out there to play a normal game with no restrictions.

I want to believe that KG’s knee will be 100%, but I had a thought…questions about his knee could be behind the non-signing of Leon Powe. Having two key players rehabbing at the same time would not bode well for post season positioning…after all, Powe was not at the “far” end of the bench, he was one of the first off the bench.

However, either way, I would have dealt with the Powe situation the same way.

Like everyone else i hope for the best with KG. Although I’m not thrilled with the way the Celts handle the whole KG issue, I’ll move on for now. By mid-Nov. we will have a better idea of where he’s at and how close to 100% he will be.

Just because they are not saying anything does not mean they are hiding. Doctors are not God, and sometimes even they have to “wait and see”. Projecting what “will” happen is not a good, or reliable, practice and can cause more harm than good.

I’ve read reports where the knee was operated on and the tendons were not touched, the operation was considered very successful. And even heard that KG was recovering ahead of schedule. Now we hear he isn’t playing any basketball at all and fine if everything is true and he has been told to not touch a ball only out of an abundance of caution. We can all live with that if that is the truth and that is the picture management is now painting.

Lo and behold Bill Simmons comes up with an ugly rumor that Kg is more or less damaged goods and that his “tendons were stapled together”. Well this goes completely opposite everything we as fans were told since the surgery. Then on top of that Simmon’s doesn’t seem to mention where he got his rumor. Jackie McMullin, an excellent reporter can’t confirm or deny anything, and nobody: ownership, Danny, Doc, KG, medical staff has a simple press conference to say this is B.S. if that’s what it is.

Surgery can be risky, and KG is an older athlete, hopes and plans don’t always work out. I don’t think there is any harm in all for Celts saying, we blew it on KG if they did, we should have done A,B,C with the injury instead of the wait and see approach/then cover it up. There is absolutely no harm in my opinion for a professional prognosis of what the ultimate outcome of the knee might be. But this goes beyond that, this goes to what damage the knee really did have and what exactly was or wasn’t done with it.

If this injury happens to JR, Walker, Scal, it isn’t the major issue it is and will be with KG. Our season rests on KG’s knee. Baby will never be a KG type defender so hiding the facts isn’t going to help or hurt our performance as a team. But it will make the fans feel jilted again if ownership is continuing what they did last spring. Whether they are or not I don’t know, but a simple press conference in my opinion can clear it all up.

I’m sorry, but I do not believe that this season totally hinges on KG’s knees. What if he was the first option off the bench? How great would that be? We have a complete team even without him…and age and injury has to be taken into account. The same goes for other teams…for example, Yao is going to be a huge loss…if Kobe went down, he would be a huge loss, etc. Until it is confirmed that KG’s knees will keep him from playing, I am going to look on the “sunny” side. Last year was a particularly hard year for the Celtics regarding injuries to key players. I hope and trust that this year will be better….