OT: Derrick Rose Hurt AGAIN
It was just announced that Derrick Rose will miss the rest of the season because of another knee injury. What do you think we'll see first, Derrick Rose play 82 games in a season or Jim Harbaugh coach the Raiders?
February 24th, 2015 at 10:56 PM ^
Oakland is still in play.
February 24th, 2015 at 10:56 PM ^
Unbelievable...
February 24th, 2015 at 10:56 PM ^
February 24th, 2015 at 11:28 PM ^
I always have two hopes for any athlete: that he saves his money and knows when to quit. All of that money isn't any good if the athlete gets scammed out of it, blows it or is too infirm to enjoy it when he retires. Rose needs to retire while he can still walk. Hopefully, he has put enough money away to enjoy his life.
February 24th, 2015 at 11:48 PM ^
February 25th, 2015 at 12:12 AM ^
February 25th, 2015 at 12:12 AM ^
It completely depends on the severity and the area of tear on the meniscus. I've (unfortunately) had multiple knee surgeries, but only had minor tears of the meniscus which were easily reparable. My orthopedic surgeon (an NFL team doctor) was emphatic that I was lucky with the meniscus as ACL’s can be replaced, but meniscuses can’t.
February 25th, 2015 at 1:11 AM ^
and it was a small one. Just sayin'
February 25th, 2015 at 8:58 AM ^
can you still not run? I had a very minor tear of my miniscus last October. Every once in a while I feel some pain but it is not there on a daily basis. Did not have surgery but scared to resume full exercise. I was hoping if I gave it long enough to heal I would be good.
February 25th, 2015 at 8:45 AM ^
Would it be menisci?!?!?! I knee-d to know.
February 25th, 2015 at 12:30 AM ^
The thing is, we already know with Rose that it's not just the nature of the injury--it's his mentality about coming back. He's been playing scared around his knees, and this doesn't help.
February 25th, 2015 at 9:26 AM ^
He's been a miracle worker when it comes to rehabbing injury plaugued basketball players and restoring their career. Antonio McDyess is a great example.
February 25th, 2015 at 10:42 AM ^
God I'm old!!
February 24th, 2015 at 10:57 PM ^
I really don't understand how supposedly elite athletes get injured this often.
February 24th, 2015 at 10:59 PM ^
of anything more intuitive than a person who engages in extreme physical exertion being susceptible to injury.
February 24th, 2015 at 11:08 PM ^
Well Derrick Rose is the first All-Star to tear his ACL since Danny Manning in 1995, and several of the best trainers in Basketball have questioned why he seems to get hurt so often, including Alan Stein and Marcus Elliot, so apparently it's not that intuitive.
Rose himself said "from high school, college and to now, I really haven't been lifiting weights." It sounds like his training has pretty much sucked since he started playing basketball.
February 24th, 2015 at 11:27 PM ^
you read this article http://www.stack.com/2014/11/19/derrick-rose-injuries/ which goes into several very intuitive theories for why derrick rose has been injured so much.
i also question that statement...rajon rondo, baron davis. I also question the relevance of looking at just acl tears to argue your point. I also question the relevance of using just all stars.
February 24th, 2015 at 11:35 PM ^
There are hundreds of players in the NBA. Almost all of them push their bodies to extreme lengths, and yet almost none of them suffer a torn ACL and two torn menisci in three years. There is nothing intuitive about the number of injuries Derrick Rose has suffered, unless of course you don't understand the meaning of the word "intuitive."
February 25th, 2015 at 12:03 AM ^
So he tore his ACL because what? His squat isn't enough? You have no idea what an ACL is or does, do you?
February 25th, 2015 at 4:52 AM ^
Rose never matured in his game. He was never able to understand when to pull it out or slow the game down, he was always in attack mode.
Starting in his rookie year it was only a matter of time before he was going to get hurt with how ofter he took it to the rim and the kind of hits he took.
February 24th, 2015 at 11:00 PM ^
Elite athletes play their respective sport, usually, since childhood. The human body can only take so much. Especially in basketball when your knees are constantly getting exposed to awkward angles and force from jumping.
It's also why athletes seem to start losing their "explosiveness" in basketball by around 30. Even LeBron is feeling it this year.
February 24th, 2015 at 11:00 PM ^
February 25th, 2015 at 10:39 AM ^
It was during an untouched sharp cut at the goal line that Drake Johnson tore his knee (ACL?) last year at the goal line versus Ohio State. Touchdown, but too much strain on the knee.
And have you ever seen some of Barry Sanders moves? I remember one in which in real time he appeared to just stop in front of the defender as he was going left, and then start back up, leaving the defender completely flat-footed. How did that freeze the defender so completely in stone?
Well, in slow motion, it showed Barry not just stopping, but cutting back to the right by pushing off with his left leg. Then somehow, with only his left leg on the ground he changed directions and went left instead. I guess that requires enough friction with the ground and incredible inner and outer thigh muscle strength to overcome the torque to pull that off. I've also seen Isiah Thomas do it. Me? Never even dreamed of making a move like that.
February 24th, 2015 at 11:18 PM ^
Because when you push your body to the maximum limits of it to compete, sometimes things break? I mean, weekend warriors tear their ACLs (and similar injuries) all the time because they do something wrong in competition or their bodies can't handle the strain, but we don't hear about it on a national stage. And sure, tearing ACLs isn't as common in basketball as other injuries, but the guys you remember lasting are due as much to survivor bias as an inherent ability to not get injured.
February 25th, 2015 at 12:05 AM ^
doesn't somehow make you immune from injuries. Especially not tendon and ligament injuries. There is only so much you can do to avoid them. Some players are going to be more prone to them than others just through genetics.
Anyway, asking this question after a torn meniscus is ridiculous. A huge number of "elite" athlete teas=r their meniscus at some point in their lives. The age they do it at and the severity of the tear differs. Usually it happens after age 30 or so as the cartlidge gets less flexible. Sometimes if the tear is located properly it will clip itself off and basically take care of itself but surgery usually speeds up the process.
Yeah, Rose is injury prone, no question. Sucks for him, sucks for his fans. But it certainly isn't unprecidented. He's obviously not the first "elite" athlete to have injury issues.
February 25th, 2015 at 12:49 AM ^
What breaks down more a NASCAR or a Subaru?
February 25th, 2015 at 10:20 AM ^
and I sprained my index finger
February 24th, 2015 at 10:58 PM ^
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February 25th, 2015 at 12:46 PM ^
I heard Michael Wilbon this morning talking about how devastating this injury is for Bulls fans. The fans? how about how devastating this is to D Rose. This is his love, his livelyhood and it may be over. He probably feels like he has let everyone down. The fans shouldn't be devastated, they should be supportive.
When Levert was injured I didn't think aw this sucks for us Michigan fans. I thought, man that is awful for Caris to work that hard only to reinjure his foot and have one of his collegiate seasons taken away.
February 24th, 2015 at 11:02 PM ^
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February 24th, 2015 at 11:20 PM ^
Who cares.
NBA=Garbage
February 24th, 2015 at 11:25 PM ^
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February 24th, 2015 at 11:31 PM ^
February 24th, 2015 at 11:35 PM ^
because it's a fluke injury. but if you're going to get injured again, I don't think it's as much a matter of a second flukey event as it is a ticking time bomb.
February 24th, 2015 at 11:25 PM ^
February 24th, 2015 at 11:28 PM ^
Rose himself might also want to seriously consider calling it a career. That's obviously something no true athlete ever wants to think about, and I get it. But at what point do you start risking permanent damage? The guy really has to think about his long-term well being at this point.
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