The Trail Blazers are trying to decide whether to have another arthroscopic surgery performed on Brandon Roy’s troubled left knee.

Roy and team officials flew to the Bay Area last Thursday to meet with Dr. Brian Cole, the team doctor of the Chicago Bulls and one of the world’s foremost experts on articular cartilage repair.

Cole is of the opinion that meniscus transplant surgery on Roy, who has had a pair of lateral meniscus operations and is at the bone-on-bone stage with the left knee, is not an option. Cole offered the possibility that an arthroscopic procedure, however, might relieve some of the pain.

Roy, who has missed Portland’s last 13 games to rest his knees, and the Blazers’ medical staff haven’t yet made a decision on the prospects of another scope. MRIs were taken on both of Roy’s knees on Tuesday. If he decides to undergo the surgery, the hope is that he would be able to return to the team at some point in the season.