Kidd to undergo surgery Thursday/Friday

[Avery]

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Nets guard Jason Kidd will undergo surgery on Thursday or Friday to repair his injured left knee. Sources told the New York Daily News that the operation would clean out "loose cartilage" in the joint. Kidd will miss two-to-four months, which potentially puts in jeopardy of missing the 2004-05 season opener.</div>

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History has shown, that players don’t usually end up the same after surgery. In Jason Kidd situation, there is a chance history may repeat it self. Kidd is about 31/32 years of age, which isn’t necessarily young by NBA standards. So Good Luck to J-Kidd, hopefully the surgery will be successful.

 

[throwback]

i think he will be ok, well i hope so. this is the time where rj/kmart take over in most aspects of the team. kidd will always be our leader,but he's been slowly shifting the importance of the games to fall on kenyon and richard. kidd isnt like webber where he has to be physical and do a lot of the heavy work. he still has to run and push/control the tempo. i think he will be better than webber or bigger players b/c he is a small player and doesn't have that much weight to carry around. yea he is big for his size and running and jumping still hurts,but i think it is easier for a smaller player to have surgery and come back better than a bigger player.

gl jason! we need ya!

 

[jbbNJNetz]

Yeah good luck to kidd

 

[RJ4lyfe]

i agree with throwback i think that slowly kidds becomin less important but we still need him. in the long run that means that rj and kmart will more indepentant and not have to have him on the court to win

 

[jbbNJNetz]

I wouldnt think in the long run. but more immediately because he is a floor general on the fast break but the more and i watched him he really isnt that great on the half court game. But he runs this team

 

[RJ4lyfe]

i made a mistake sorry i didnt finish my message

 

[throwback]

eventually rj/kmart are going to have to carry this franchise, but they are young and kidd is taking care of that department right now. if kmart and rj had 2-3more yrs under thier belt, i wouldn't be as concerned with kidd's knee b/c they would have more experience and by that time they should be our 1-2punch while kidd being our 3rd. that is how we are going to win a title, by kidd being the 3rd option. then he will have more options and won't be pressured as much by defenders because they know they will have to pay more attention to kmart/rj than jason. but for the present,we need jason. everyone knows it and he should be fine. no one is ever 100% after surgery,but i bet he will be pretty close. at least he will feel/be healthier than he was for the 2nd half of the season and playoffs.

 

[DragonKid]

i hope after kidd's surgery, he can train his shooting ability..
because sometimes, he can't make the shot,
like the last playoffs game which kidd played,
he shot 8 times for 0, it's very embarrassing,
he is the NBA first team, but i don't want to believe he played like that.
i hope he will always be triple double or double double,
that will be very nice...

 

[throwback]

when your knee hurts and you cant get proper lift off when shooting a jumpshot you are going to have problems. he was never a shooter,nor ever will be and he needs to have healthy knees/legs in order for him to be effective. all the games and minutes took a toll on him and it all showed in game7. but you can't hold game7 against his career. kidd haters like game7 b/c it "proves" thier point that kidd can't score and isnt good when he was never a shooter. he isn't going to be a consistantly good shooter. he is most effective when he drives to the rim to get early buckets to give him confidence and a feel for the game. outside isn't his game yet he can make big shots has he has during his nets career.

Kidd likely to be ready for season opener

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">And while it was not the procedure that had been expected for Kidd -- a routine cleaning of some loose cartilage -- it is also significantly different from most microfracture surgeries because it was done on a non-weight-bearing area.</div>

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"By nature of where the surgery was performed, the recovery would be much quicker than a normal microfracture surgery," said Louis Rizio, the chief of sports medicine at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School in Newark. "A three-month recovery is not unreasonable."

Because Kidd's surgery was done on a non-weight-bearing area, it will receive significantly less pounding, which speeds up the healing process. </div>

it mentions people who have had microfracture surgery like kittles,webber,houston,penny and how long it took then to recover, but they were all on weight-bearing areas. so it looks good for jason. he will probably never be 100% b/c whenever someone has surgery on anything something has changed,for better or worse. he will still be effective and at least he wont need 8+ months to heal b/c that would really hurt us. maybe he will have a longer effective career than many have been saying since his knee problem came up.

 

[InNETSweTrust]

Well maybe they're saying that to attract trade options. But I do hope we keep him and he's healthy.

 

[jbbNJNetz]

yeah just to see what offer they can get for a health kidd

 

[throwback]

i still dont think we will trade kidd. i still think shopping him is just a rumor made up by some reporter. his contract is big and teams that are close to winning a title all have good pgs. so i don't really see a team that would trade for him b/c top teams already have good pgs. except for dallas,they lost nash but got harris as thier point from the draft. i still think a banged up kid can get a nice talent return,but a healthy kidd could get as much as almost anyone,but a healthy kidd will stay. he just resigned and i think he will retire as a Net,as he should.

 

[DragonKid]

Yes, I agree with throwback. Kidd play Game 7 in second round, just play about 50% abiliy of usual. If Kidd were healthy, and played for 120% or 100%, pistons would lose. But I don't know if Nets play in the fianl, again, nets vs lakers, can nets win ?if nets can win pistons, pistons can win lakers, but then nets win lakers? Haha..I don't know.
B/C nets doesn't has new battle power to against lakers, like a good shooter and a big man, so i don't know the answer.

 

[jbbNJNetz]

Lakers no they would get us on the half court and they're bench i think is a little deeper then ours jsut because they have fischer, fox, walton and rush. The nets also doesnt have enoough big men to go around especially that Rodney Rogers was not performing and basicly nonexistant

 

[throwback]

first off, i dont want to take ANYTHING away from the pistons. but if kidd was at least 90% i truely believe we could have won. im not making excuses but just reflecting and dreaming of what could have been. even if we got past the pistons, i still think we could have beaten the pacers b/c they,to me,were still not playoff tested. then against the lakers we would probably lose in 5 or 6. our help defense wasnt as good as detroits and our big bodies would run out and we wouldnt have an answer for kobe. either way, we had a nice run and it is time to start another run

 

[jbbNJNetz]

exactly throw back i think we could have beaten the pistons if kidd was not hurt and we would have beaten the pacers in 6 or 7. We would have lost to the lakers in 5 or 6

 

[RJ4lyfe]

any1 know how it went?

 

[Henacy]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting RJ4lyfe:</div><div class="quote_post">any1 know how it went?</div>

In the daily News on Sat., they said that he is expected o be ready by the start of next season, so Iam guessing that means the surgery went well.

 

[DragonKid]

Jason Kidd can play 100% that's a good news for NJNets, but the best situation is that 3 brothers can stay, but the team isn't upgraded.

Kristic + Shooter is the best way to nets for title.