The Cavaliers apparently played one of the 9 worst NBA games of all-time lasterday night, so we’re going to skip it and move on to something of actual substance for once. (Not counting that time we had a jihad against smokers.)
Henry of Abbot has a post up today about the dreaded microfracture surgery and how it will one day be seen kinda like ACL surgery. Remember, it used to be that ACL screwiness was a one-year rehab stint and “never the same again” status. Now it’s more of a “that sucks – see you in a few months, good as new”.
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That all sounds good to us, and as an ode to this forward movement, we’re going to get microfracture surgery…ON OUR FACE.
Yep, we just took a hammer to the entire left side of our face, and after three good whacks, we’re pretty sure it’s crumbled to dust. Surprisingly, there’s little too no blood – we were going for structural damage here, not lacerations, and we’ve been successful.
Next step is to head to the hospital and request some microfracture surgery.
The journalistic plan is to walk in and be quite excited about the whole thing – “Hi, I have a broken face – I’d like some microfracture surgery, please! Like NBA players get! I’ll go wait over here and read this July 1005 issue of Time while you get everything ready!”
If it works, we’ll let you know. If it doesn’t, we’ll post of picture of our horrible broken face, and then write something about what it feels like. We feel like a REPORTER now.
(It’s 4 in the morning – we have no idea why we wrote this. Maybe to see if it gets a reaction out of our mom? See, we did break our face once! Not on purpose, but we did. The cool thing is the repaired side is, according to the doctor, actually stronger than the other side.
This brings up a great point regarding that new Bionic Woman show. Wouldn’t you be like, “Hey, hack off my other arm and make that one kick-ass, too. Thanks!”)
NOTE: Seriously, Coach Mike…we know it’s the preseason, but from what we read, it was the same old garbage offensively. Why does it take 3 YEARS to install an offense? Why? PASS and CUT, PASS and CUT – it’s easy. Are we gonna have to boycott this team before the season even starts?
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One of my least favorite memories of your childhood transition into adulthood – thanks for the memories…..argggggggggggggggggggg
I’m more machine now than man!
I have 2 questions:
1) So can they give you like a different half-a-face? Like two-face from Batman? Or maybe like those half-man/half-woman circus freaks? Good God, sometimes I would just want to kiss myself.
2) What articles are in the July 1005 issue of Time? Angelina Jolie’s greatest grandmother has Black Death?
A bunch of stuff about Abe Lincoln and an article about Hustle and Flow.
Honk the Cavs! Where do they get off? Is this like a bad comic book plot, and Coach Mike has them playing terribly against the teams and meanwhile, behind a curtain is a team of Globetrotter-esque superCavs?
Knowing Time, most likely it was about something that was bleeding edge in 1000 but has finally hit the mainstream in 1004.
First Pixies reference on the Yay, I’ve read. Solid.
that picture = classic
Where’s the Pixies reference? That’s a band, right? I’m serious – please educate me.
I simply wanted to point out that in Jemele Hill’s latest interview of Drew Gooden, he intimates that he is holding out on playing for Finland’s national team (as he is half-Finnish) because he doesn’t want to disqualify himself from making Team USA.
That said, when is the YAYsports Central Division preview arriving? I think its pretty much up for grabs between everyone but the Pacers (man, how one well-aimed beer toss can cripple a perennial contender). Each team has its flaws; youth of Pistons’ bench, Bulls’ lack of a front-court, Bucks’ lack of minutes, Cavaliers delusional front-court.
In an attempt to steer conversation away from cigarette and delayed cinema bashing…looking at the rest of the East, screw it, there’s actually a quality amount of parity (can parity be quantified?). Besides Philly and its scorned dunk champ, is any other team already lottery-bound? I think the Knicks with Randolph and Charlotte with J-Rich will be better off than some argue (Sparty on) whereas alleged elite teams like Boston and Miami are overrated (unless the NBA institutes 3v3 December). And the Nets get their Nenad back, the Hawks are older (OK, they’re probably lottery bound too) and Orlando has Jesus on its side.
Pistons over Texas in 6.
I need to see how the Cavs’ roster shapes up first.
When I saw Drew Gooden and Team USA in the same sentence without words like “C Team” or “Plan D in case the first 3 planes crash” I almost fell out of my chair laughing…
But the Bulls are going to win 55 games this season and totally dominate everyone this season with their undersized backcourt and their no low post scoring threats…
Yes a band. Like my favoritest band ever.
I think here is a video, but work has started (today?) denying access to youtube . . . where is the nearest bridge to jump from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJwqYgpkQfE
If not, lyrics:
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Pixies/Broken-Face.html
This song may have been inspired by your aforementioned broken facedness.
Speaking of the Cavs roster, how does Shannon Brown’s prospects shape up these days? I had such high hopes for him until the injuries and DNPs.
He get some major minutes and a lot of shots in the first preseason game if that means anything. The quotes and such seem to indicate they want to get him in the game as a regular part of the rotation. I wonder if Sasha comes back, and Devin Brown also present, means he won’t be in there right away.
I’m wondering the same thing about Affalo. Always like watching him at UCLA and I though he was underrated going into the draft. Will he play at all?
I don’t think Afflalo will get many minutes this year. Yet I also didn’t think much of him at UCLA due to my Big-10 bias. After Rip and Chauncey, you’ve got Flip Murray, Lindsey Hunter, Rodney Stuckey and Jarvis Hayes. I think the fact that they went after Hayes means that Afflalo was never meant to get much, if any, time this year.
If Hunter gets hurt/show his age, Afflalo might get some time, principally as ‘defensive specialist’, but considering that the young forwards (Maxiell and Amir Johnson) are going to be getting more minutes, I doubt Saunders/Dumars are going to want an inexperienced backcourt sharing the floor.
Additionally, the Pistons sill have guards Alex Aecker (Europe?) and Will Blalock (D-League?) around I’m pretty sure, and they might be given priority if the team is pressed into needing more guard depth.
Regular joes get microfracture surgery, too.
I just had arthroscopic surgery on both knees in two separate surgeries this month. (My kneecaps were no longer centering correctly and were causing pain.) So the doctor got in there, and cut some loose flaps off of the cartilage and slightly reshaped some bones.
But, he unexpectedly found (in both knees) that I had been wearing bone-on-born where I wore through the cartilage. He performed a microfracture each time to grow back something that is close to the cartilage that I lost.
6-8 weeks of no load bearing while everything regrows. Luckily for me, the position of the microfractures only meant that I couldn’t be load bearing on a knee bent around 90 degrees or more, so I’m coping very well.
A microfracture actually is less exciting than it sounds. From the pictures, I see that he drilled three holes in my bone. Blood or bone marrow or something is supposed to come oozing out of it as it repairs, and it clots and eventually turns into something that is similar to the original cartilage. So your body ends up putting in a repair by itself.
Beyond that, treatments get far worse and generally a patient will not be as good as they were before.
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