KG Mystery: 3 Years In A Row

  I didn’t believe a word of it.

I want to know who shot Kennedy, are there really aliens and if the moon landing was real!

Haha, I understand the disclosure issue, but you might be taking this just a teenie weenie to far.

I am not offering an explanation or pointing to a specific conspiracy. The facts are strange and I don’t understand what is going on. Actually hoping that somebody out there could come up with an explanation…

In 12 years as a T-Wolf……..KG played in 97.4% of their games

If he remains out until mid-January…..KG performs in 78% of Celtic games since the trade

Celtics Blog injury Expert…

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It’s possible that you may have some basis here, but just doesnt seem likely. I mean, last year would be too hard to explain by your theory. If KG was taking games off for any reason other then injury they would be against the teams we have the best chances of beating him without. Phoenix would not be one of those teams and especially not on the road and not with Pierce out.

Knees are real tricky. I had knee surgery when I was only 18 and it never has been the same. It’s funny too because everyone you talk with is an expert on your injury. They tell you they had a problem or knew someone who had this injury or that one and that your injury should parallel someone else but it’s just not the case. Injuries are real specific to the person and a lot of times just cant be explained.

I would like to know why KG wasnt on the Celtics bench on Saturday night next to PP in street cloths?
Why wasnt Rondo on the bench rooting his team mates on?
I do think the Celtics have lied to their fans about KG’s injuries.
Is the Celtics’ statement about KG’s ‘hyperextended knee injury not related to his previous injury’ true?

since he has been back from the injury he had last season, I don’t know and Im no expert but I try to analyze KG’s play and movement specially in his last 2 weeks and you could actually see him drag one of his leg as he goes up and down the court, I also noticed on his last game that he played, there was a noticeable limp that made me think that for sure he won’t play the next game and Indeed I was right, KG did not suite up in the Pheonix game.

I sure hope tha he can come back as the same KG of 2008 as the KG we have been having this season has been noticeably old and without any lift whatsoever..most of his alleyoops with RR has been a thud.

If you’re into conspiracies, try out this one: Stern has directed the refs that the Lakers (or pick you favorite big market team to hate here) should be favored to win the championship. Ainge and Rivers have discovered this (or been told— you can speculate as to who else really knows— coaches, GMs, etc,) and pulled KG and Pierce to rest them from too much wear and tear. Of course a few bad apples like Wallace suspect this and are mad as h*ll, but most established players have learned not to ask too many questions, and accept that they’ll have to play “uphill” at times. KG and Pierce will return after a good rest to put on a good show for the fans (or sooner if Kobe gets arrested for something stupid and all bets are off), but look for more mysterious injuries this season. Hey, it takes a lot of news reading to be this paranoid! Not that I believe any of this!

but imagine if they were actually true.

KG is an important piece of a championship puzzle and team management don’t want to take any risks in loosing that piece again when its needed. I have a feeling that there are some players on the Celtics (Paul and Kevin, maybe others) that cannot break get a scratch without being swarmed by doctors and staff telling them to rest.
Perhaps KG’s injury wasn’t that bad last year and he could have hobbled through the playoffs but management was afraid that playing him may turn him into a Yao Ming or Greg Oden.
Their treating KG like a delicate little flower because they’ve invested a lot of money on him. Remember, he has to be the twenty million dollar man for 2 and 2/3 more years. They want him to be a quality player for as long as possible.

If you have ever played any type of competitive sport for any period of time you would realize that injuries occur without you having to “see” it!!! It is amazing to me that you would hypothesize one of the most passionate players in the league “faking” an injury. Seriously if you don’t know what’s it’s like to compete and compete hard with a tremendous love through pain and injuries then your theories should be kept inside. I may know that there is gravity but that doesn’t make me a physicist!!!!

I’ve always thought 82 games + playoffs is an unnatural, unhealthy number in a sport where tall guys are putting so much pressure on their joints. Only the young guys, and a few freaks of nature like Robert Parish, can handle it.

Remember that in all pro sports, the number of games played is always maxed out for financial reasons. Look at how the playoffs have extended — the bigger money games maxed out even more.

My point is, older guys are all breaking down, and doing so at regular intervals, and guys like KG who can’t slow down definitely need the team looking out for them – I hope they’re giving him mandatory “rests” and I don’t expect them to admit it. If I were an NBA player with job security I would fake an injury for a couple months every season just to extend my career!

I was thinking about why they lie to us so much about these injuries. That has to make sense in any explanation, so it’s a key of sorts. I finally came up with this, a variation/compilation of Scal4theallstargame’s "delicate flower" theory, Cannoneo’s post, and others.

As has been said, KG is considered too valuable to unnecessarily risk. They don’t like, for example, when he falls hard on his pelvis and hits his head hard, as he recently did. The brass decided (or "conspired", if you prefer) long ago to give KG a 2-3 week rest period every year, right around this time. They use whatever excuse is handy… and they’re not too careful or clever about those excuses. They LIE to us, the fan base, because they don’t think much of us and they’re worried we might complain if they take KG The Star out of the lineup without very good reason.

This explains the repeated unseen injuries – they’re not completely real. He does get dinged up each time, but not enough to otherwise warrant sitting out. It also explains the lies they tell, and the changing stories.

Two things remain:
(a) Why does KG never appear at games? — I don’t like that, think it’s wrong, but I suppose it’s understandable given his weird/near-manic personality.
(b) What the hell happened last season? How did 2-3 weeks become the rest of the season? — Ok well… last year was not part of their plan. Maybe last year was the thing they most feared… or perhaps even knew about when the signed KG… that his knee was problematic and could give out, requiring surgery. It happened, they absorbed the blow, and now they’re back to the original plan.

How’s that? Seems to hold water…….

Ok, let’s look at this from another perspective. We own a, let’s say, manufacturing businesss. Our total overhead runs us about $100 million a year and the vast majority of that cost is in 3 machines that we pay $20 million a year to operate. Now, if the majority of out potential for new business in the future, revenue in general, and ability to get new machines in the future came from the last 3 months of the year, would we risk running one of our machines if it was smoking in April?

Sorry for the machine analogy but it parallels our team. I dont know that we need a conspiracy to rest our KG machine but “strategic rest” certainly makes sense. This team has already proven that when healthy they can steal a game or two on the road. Clevelan and Orlando are probably not going to be much ahead of us late in the season on victories anyway. The only way though we get past both of those teams and win a title is if everyone, especially the big four and Perk are healthy. If KG plays the way he has played so far this season, we wont win banner 18. Sorry, but without a trade it won’t happen.

I don’t get why anyone bothers with his medical-related posts. Garbage.

I’m almost 30 and have been playing pickup ball for about 16 years and as a result have screwed my ankles and knees. About 2 years ago did a nice job on my right ankle, didn’t break it but it permanently looks different to the one on the left and feels different. "It’ll be alright" I said "I’ve done this before and was fine". But not this time. I don’t have the ability to use my right ankle to stop on a dime anymore or use it to spring quickly to the left and it doesn’t help that I keep playing on it. As a result my quickness is about 50% of what is was before the injury. Perhaps if I rested an extra 3 months to let it heal properly it may have been better or perhaps I should take a week or 2 off whenever it feels a little funny but what’s the fun in that? Nobodies gonna stop me from playing either because nobody has $56,000,000.00 riding on my health (nor should they). So maybe Garnett isn’t actually banging his knee in a game, maybe he just has a "hurty knee" (sore knee) after a game and rather than just letting him suck it up and play management are been (ultra) cautious because a hurty knee can turn into a painful knee which can turn into a extremely painful knee that begins to effect his efficiency on the court, which turns into an injury and more surgery. Maybe they are lying but would you rather Danny come out and say "Where resting Kevin because he complained about a sore knee after the last game and we don’t want to risk re-injuring it by playing him. Where looking to have our best team available for the playoffs…….. you know when it counts……..DUH"

DJR1: And assuming there is any truth to your allegations, do you think that the conspirators are just going to put you at ease coming forward with the appropiate admisions? You think they have gone thru all the dark agreements you are accusing them of going on with, so it all now comes out in the open with “Gee, we are sorry folks, we never thought you were going to figure it out the secret deal we had to agree with KG for him to agree playing for us?” Not.

All points well taken.
But I DO think they should never have STARTED lying about all this. What are we, infants? If they want to “strategically rest” KG, or PP, or anybody…. what are we going to do, complain?

As for whether they will admit anything… no, of course not. But if they read enough posts about how we kinda see through their silly games, and how we would not complain if they told the truth… maybe next time they might consider actually telling the truth in the first place. Don’t know about you, but I find it disconcerting and a little disturbing that their stories change so often. It would be nice if it just stopped.

I think the people who complained about preseason predictions regularly mentioning the health of the Celtics should now admit that their criticisms were examples of homer blindness.

Pierce, KG, Wallace, Daniels, and TA are all injury risks. I’m not sure why anyone would think twice when one of them goes down.

KG and Pierce have been so good at masking their wear and tear while playing through injuries over the course of their careers that it is easy to overestimate their health. As they age, healing becomes more difficult, and joints become more worn with permanent damage. It is likely that KG, for example, will feel the effects of how he has exerted himself for the rest of his life.

If the reason for not playing KG was to rest him, then they should simply say we are resting him. I look at a player like Shaq – who is averaging around 23 minutes a game – that is “resting” him. There are even games – like the second of a back to back where he simply sits. The Cavs do not make weird or fake excuses – and I doubt very much that the Celtics or KG are making excuses to save or rest him.
There were all sorts of theories about Pierce – where it is impossible to get an infection in a knee and he will anever play again. Guess what – he played again.
I think KG is simply hurt – and is too emotional to go to games and sit and do nothing to help besides waving a towel. The only question that remains unanswered is what the heck is wrong with him?

Throughout his career, KG has been injured very few times. Even if he has been injured, he has been able to mask it. But the only problem with that is that it only works in your 20’s, once you get older, you have to take a break when you get injured. The problem with KG right now is that he tries to play too many injuries, like last year, you could see that he was in pain since late December, but for some reason he kept playing, and eventually he went out for the rest of the season and the playoffs (btw,i think that injury he was in a lot a pain, and he did land awkwardly on his knee, it kind of buckled and it looked like it was very painful, plus having seen a bunch of KGs comercials and his one movie, i know that he is not at all a good enogh actor to have faked that), this year i think the Celtics realized that KG was trying to play through another injury and took him out, for the sake of the team