Steve Blake's Shoulder Surgery Went Well

by Ben Golliver on May 29, 2009 3:58 PM PDT

Attention Gar Forman!!!!!!!

From the Blazers...

STEVE BLAKE UNDERGOES SUCCESSFUL ARTHROSCOPIC SHOULDER SURGERY

PORTLAND, Ore. - Trail Blazers guard Steve Blake underwent successful arthroscopic shoulder surgery, the Portland Trail Blazers announced today. His recovery time is expected to be 6-8 weeks.

Blake separated his right shoulder trying to fight through a screen in the second quarter of Portland's game at Philadelphia on January 14, sidelining the guard for five games. He returned to action on January 26 at the Los Angeles Clippers and re-aggravated the injury in the second quarter, forcing him to miss an additional eight games.

Dr. Neal S. ElAttrache performed the surgery at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles.

All jokes aside, here's to a quick and painless rehab.

-- Ben (benjamin.golliver@gmail.com

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Good for Steve

Te corto tu cara!

by tominhawaii on May 29, 2009 4:10 PM PDT reply actions

Get better Steve

The Blazers need him next year.

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by haildablazer on May 29, 2009 4:12 PM PDT reply actions

The ~~Blazers~~ Bulls need him next year.

I’m only half kidding.

Certified blazer.fangirl

by Roybot on May 29, 2009 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions

I’m still not sold on Hinrich. Due to the handchecking rules being what they are, there really aren’t any good defensive point guards anymore. The best way to go after a point like Tony Parker or Devin Harris is to attack him on offense, maybe draw a couple of quick fouls. Two fouls in the first quater is worth almost all the defense in the world.

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by haildablazer on May 29, 2009 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions

Hinrich played pretty great defense on Rondo in the Chicago series.

proud hinrichsheeple

by Cablinasian on May 29, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions

I knew you'd be around

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by Roybot on May 29, 2009 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions

yeah, but I don't put Rondo into the category of the Parkers or the Harrises or the Pauls of the world...

It was good D on Rondo, but I don’t think it’s game-changing D.

I mean, come on… the Bulls still lost.

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by haildablazer on May 29, 2009 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions

I mean, come on… the Bulls still lost.

They were the inferior team and were supposed to lose.

Also, Rondo is one of the very quickest guards and very hard to defend. He still had great numbers in the series, but that’s because Hinrich was switching between defending Pierce, Allen, and Rondo.

proud hinrichsheeple

by Cablinasian on May 29, 2009 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions

I thought the Bulls and Celts were on a more even level after KG went down

But that’s just opinion.

What it comes down to for me is, I still don’t think Hinrich is enough of an upgrade over Blake to justify a trade.

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by haildablazer on May 29, 2009 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions

I like the idea of adding Hinrich

and keeping Blake.

Not enough minutes to go around, especially for Bayless? Sure, but this is the NBA “where injuries happen” and both Steve and Kirk missed parts of last season

If Blake+sweetener was traded for Hinrich and Cap’n Kirk gets hurt, the Blazers are left with Bayless running the point and scrambling to find another backup PG

by two4larue on May 29, 2009 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions

Have you ever seen a press release when an athlete got surgery that read "sorry, we screwed up"? :)

I bet if we search for Darius’ arthroscopic surgery press release, Martell’s, or any surgery on Hill, Arenas, maybe even Bowie and Walton in the olden days they were all deemed successful.

Still, speedy recovery Steve.

by Norsktroll on May 29, 2009 4:13 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Well, Blake didn't die on the operating table

And considering his surgeon was Dr. Nick, that’s saying a lot.

Hi, everybody!

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by haildablazer on May 29, 2009 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm more concerned about Martell's foot than Steve's shoulder.

by MiledAnimal on May 29, 2009 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions

Me too.

A foot injury (especially one that’s stress related) can be a death knell for an NBA career.

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by haildablazer on May 29, 2009 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions

I think they admitted they screwed up after one of Hills ankle surgery’s when he was in Orlando… something about having to go back in a week or two later comes to mind… but I’m too lazy to use the Google to find it

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by The Arkitect on May 29, 2009 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions