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.

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.

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 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.

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…

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.