Camby Update.........

[THE HCP]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jan. 20, 2011

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TRAIL BLAZERS CENTER MARCUS CAMBY
UNDERGOES SUCCESSFUL SURGERY

PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland Trail Blazers center Marcus Camby underwent successful arthroscopic surgery to repair a partial medial meniscus tear in his left knee this morning, it was announced by General Manager Rich Cho.

Dr. Don Roberts performed the surgery in Vancouver, Wash., and Camby is expected to miss approximately three weeks.

"We're pleased with the outcome of today's surgery, and look forward to seeing Marcus back on the court soon," said Cho. "In the meantime, we have confidence in our frontcourt players to step into the void left by Marcus and help us continue to win games."

In 39 games (all starts) this season, Camby has averaged 5.9 points, 11.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.87 blocks in 28.7 minutes. He ranks fifth in the NBA in rebounds and 10th in blocked shots per game.

Camby is the only player in the Western Conference averaging at least 11.0 rebounds and 1.50 blocks. He has grabbed at least 10 boards in 26 games and led the team in rebounding a team-high 28 times this season.






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[EL PRESIDENTE]

only 3 weeks? nice!

 

[MIXUM]

wow i hope thats true.

dirk missed 3 weeks with a bruise!

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Blazers center Marcus Camby projected to miss 3 weeks arthroscopic surgery to repair a partial medial meniscus tear in his left knee today.

 

[maxiep]

Thanks for passing the news along, HCP.

 

[illmatic99]

Interesting they said "repair" rather than "remove." But the recovery time for the repair should generally be much longer than the removal of the tear. Weird.

But Cho's quote is disappointing. Big men are going to manhandle us inside unless we make a move and get some help.

 

[Wheels]

appreciate the news Paisano

 

[BBert]

So Camby was at the game last night, then flew back to Portland to have surgery this morning? That's a good team guy, right there.

 

[hasoos]

Interesting they said "repair" rather than "remove." But the recovery time for the repair should generally be much longer than the removal of the tear. Weird.

But Cho's quote is disappointing. Big men are going to manhandle us inside unless we make a move and get some help.

Cho has to keep it positive. That is the professional thing to do.

 

[illmatic99]

So Camby was at the game last night, then flew back to Portland to have surgery this morning? That's a good team guy, right there.

Well, he found out that he needed surgery after he flew down to Sac with the team.

 

[hasoos]

So 3 weeks out, I am going to have to sit down and see who they play over that period to kind of figure out how this is going to play out.

 

[RoyToy]

Joel can hold up for 3-4 weeks. Good news.

Cho otoh, ugh.

 

[illmatic99]

Boston, SAC, Spurs and Den will give us trouble. That's it (add Indy if Hibbert is back). Maybe it's not that bad.

 

[RoyToy]

Looking at the schedule if the 3 weeks ends up working out, he'll miss 9 total games(10 if you count yesterday but the team won so who cares) and he'll go on the 3 game road trip of Tor/Det/Min. All those teams suck though so they could play it safe...

If the team doesn't rush him back as quickly as possible, imo it'll be 12 games and they'll bring him back against NO after the 3 game road trip against NO and that will basically be 4 weeks.

 

[RoyToy]

Looking at the schedule one more time the NO game is the game before the AS break. It'd make sense to just keep him out of that I suppose and give him that much longer to heal and bring him back after the AS break which would be 5 weeks after surgery.

 

[THE HCP]

Sorry if Mixum posted this 2 hours ago!

 

[chris_in_pdx]

When do they ever announce "unsuccessful" surgery?

 

[Nikolokolus]

Interesting they said "repair" rather than "remove." But the recovery time for the repair should generally be much longer than the removal of the tear. Weird.

But Cho's quote is disappointing. Big men are going to manhandle us inside unless we make a move and get some help.

I think you're parsing the words a little too much here. There are degrees of meniscus repair/removal. In each case of a meniscal tear they always "remove" something, but in this case it probably means that they were able to shave the torn medial part of the meniscus and that the tear didn't compromise the entire meniscus -- in which case it would be a full menisectomy. The fact that he's supposed to be back in a matter of weeks rather than months backs this up.

 

[e_blazer]

When do they ever announce "unsuccessful" surgery?

I guess if the guy stops breathing that would qualify.

 

[maxiep]

When do they ever announce "unsuccessful" surgery?

When they went in to fix cartilage in Oden's knee and had to do MF before he ever played a game for us.

 

[THE HCP]

^Max, do you have a more current picture of you fat ugly Chris Farley looking daughter?

 

[maxiep]

^Max, do you have a more current picture of you fat ugly Chris Farley looking daughter?

Do people really believe this is my wife and daughter?

 

[Nikolokolus]

Do people really believe this is my wife and daughter?

Not me.

 

[THE HCP]

Do people really believe this is my wife and daughter?

You've told me before it's not! Just messing with you.

 

[maxiep]

You've told me before it's not! Just messing with you.

Cool. Reading instead of hearing removes tone, so I couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic or not.

 

[hasoos]

When do they ever announce "unsuccessful" surgery?

Beats me. But I never thought I would see a press conference for a trade that never happened until yesterday.

 

[jlprk]

Do people really believe this is my wife and daughter?

We know it's not your daughter. You were such a cutie as a child. I miss the 70s and the hair styles.

 

[BBert]

When do they ever announce "unsuccessful" surgery?

I know. I laugh at that too. I think the definition of "successful surgery" is when the patient doesn't die.

 

[maxiep]

We know it's not your daughter. You were such a cutie as a child. I miss the 70s and the hair styles.

Wait, are you saying she looks like...BeerBoy?