KG Conspiracy?

Please consider the following as facts:

Player "X" was acquired by Team A in a trade 15 years ago, and has had the following events occur in EVERY ONE of his 15 years with the team:
- Every year, around January/February, Player X is injured during court play.
- Thousands of people and multiple hi-def video cameras feeding millions of television viewers witness every such injury. Despite that, in all 15 years, no one has ever seen what caused ANY of X's injuries. Every "injury" is a mystery, which the team explains subsequent to the event.
- Every single such "injury" has resulted in time off for Player X that's been between 3 and 4 weeks. 15 times.
- In every case, Player X disappears during that 3-4 week hiatus.
- All of these things have happened FIFTEEN times in a row, every single year -- always the same story.

What do you think? Would you say there is something suspicious about these events surrounding Player X? Would you think that there might be some kind of "conspiracy" on the part of the team and/or Player X regarding his repeated, always-unseen injuries, which happen always at the same time of year, and always result in the same amount of time off, during which he disappears?

If 15 years is enough to convince you that something must be wrong... shouldn't FOUR YEARS IN A ROW convince you to AT LEAST THINK ABOUT IT? Because for the past 4 years -- ever since KG arrived in Boston -- the exact event sequence ascribed above to Player X has happened to KG. Here are the facts:

Jan 25, 2008 - In the middle of his first season as a Celtic, KG experiences "abdominal strain" (we're told); he's out for 3.5 weeks. Nobody SEES anything unusual at the time, on any video. He simply jumps normally, and lands injured.

Feb 19, 2009 - Again, KG jumps, and lands limping. He was all alone when he jumped, and did not land awkwardly or badly. Diagnosis we are given: complicated. For a time, the media reported it as a "strain". Then, KG's agent went on the air (we HEARD the actual interview) and clearly said that KG had "loose cartilage" in his knee plus a "strain". Eventually, we were given another version: that he'd had surgery to repair "bone spurs." Why his agent said what he said was never explained. Result: KG came back temporarily, but then missed the rest of the season, including the playoffs.

January 2010 - KG has some hard plays, but no specific injury anyone can see, including on any video. He is taken out of action for some unspecified problem... first they called it a "thigh bruise", then it was "hyperextension." Of course, NOBODY SAW ANYTHING like hyperextension of any leg belonging to KG, nor any bruise-inducing trauma. End result: KG is out 3.5 weeks, returning to action on January 22, 2010.

January 2011 - Once again.... KG jumps quite normally and all alone, with no evident abnormal motion or sudden event involving his legs.... and lands with a "leg injury." Diagnosis this time: "calf strain". If he returns next week as expected, he will have been out for about 3 weeks. Again.

Folks -- the pattern here is glaring and unavoidable. NONE of KG's injuries SINCE HE CAME TO BOSTON has been seen BY ANYONE. NONE of his injuries is supported or explained by any video, even though there were multiple cameras recording each one. EACH year's "injury" has happened around the midpoint of the season, EACH resulted in a break for KG of 3-4 weeks (plus more in 2009: see below), and in EACH case KG has disappeared at some point during, and for most of, his break.

I can offer some possible explanations - in no particular order:

1) It's a pure coincidence. 4 years running... a coincidence. Fair enough. It's certainly POSSIBLE, if not particularly likely. (Btw, I have this bridge you might like....)

2) There is something medically wrong with Player X(/KG) which neither he nor Team A wants anyone outside the core to know. This "undisclosed health problem" makes it necessary for X to receive 3-4 weeks of specialized therapy, at some undisclosed location, at around the midpoint of each season in which he plays. To carve out time for this, X and the team conspire each year on some bogus "injury." It's never been seen because it has never been real. But X/KG's need for treatment IS real, and he gets the time he needs by using this gambit year after year. (Note: you can theoretically substitute any other possible need for time off as the motivation here, instead of the "undisclosed health problem." H/t in comments.)

2a) As a variation of #2, perhaps the team worries excessively about X... because he's one of a kind, and aging; this could have led them to try to find ways to give him time off in the middle of every season, especially since X plays his guts out in the beginning of each season (and just about always). If 2a is correct, why not just tell us the truth and then take him out? I don't know. They lie a lot about health matters.

3) In order to get X/KG to sign up in the first place, Team A was forced to agree to (secretly) give him an extra 3-4 week vacation every year.

4) Player X is an alien who must visit his home planet at least once a year in the months of January-February in order to rejuvenate his energy pods, without which X cannot survive. He goes WHEN he goes each year because that is the only time that his planet's 3 suns align just right for the necessary wormhole to form.

Which of these do you think is most likely correct?

Or do you have ANOTHER interpretation, not listed here? If so, I'd love to hear about it...
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Remember too... all the lies we've been fed over the years about KG's health. WHY do they lie so much? What sense does it make? (Don't they know how much we HATE it?) People lie to cover things up, right? So what are they covering up?

I understand and agree that the team is not OBLIGATED to inform its fans everything about its players' health. But neither are they entitled to outright LIE to us, when we put down good $ to see our guys play. ("Our guys" includes KG.) Anyway, the issue of the team's obligations vs. rights is a separate matter. We are concerned here only with whether or not there has been a pattern of obfuscation by the team regarding KG's yearly injuries.

Now.... ok yes, maybe I did start writing this post in some jest. But it was jest of the bitter-tasting variety. I am not laughing. (Besides, people jest about the truth all the time... sometimes unknown even to themselves.)

Something smells rotten in the state of Massachusetts..... and I would just like my fellow fans to keep that in mind. Someday, maybe one of us will stumble on the truth. (Or, even more fun: maybe some smart reporter will find a way to ask these questions of Danny one day. Preferably in an interview.)
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Note: Regarding the fact that the 2009 injury reportedly ended up requiring surgery and ruining KG's whole season (and then some): some reader(s) will no-doubt point out that that event lies outside the arc of the rest of his injuries. Maybe it does... in its length and severity. What does that mean?

Answer: It tends to point us in the direction of the "undisclosed health problem" explanation (#2). Did that underlying problem EXACERBATE some unexpected, acute injury? Did they WAIT TOO LONG to give him his break that year (February instead of the usual January)? Was it just a matter of a real injury intruding into the best-laid plans of a great Celtic and the (less-than-perfectly-honest) brass around him?

For what it's worth, of the non-coincidental explanations, this one -- the still-hidden "undisclosed health problem" -- seems most probable to me. I don't know why they chose to hide it and lie about it. But we do know that they do tend to lie about these things.

Ok, maybe that's not the most likely explanation. I forgot about KG's home planet. :)
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If you do NOT believe that there is anything suspicious or unusual about what has happened to KG over the past 4 years, PLEASE don't just say "pshaw" and wave your hand (even it that's the easiest response). At least answer these two questions:
(1) How do you explain that same sequence of events happening every year, 4 years in a row? Coincidence? Something else?
(2) Do you believe that KG will NOT have another mysterious, mirror injury in his NEXT season? Would you bet on that?