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Heat's Butler could be out a month
October 4, 2003
MIAMI (AP) -- Heat forward Caron Butler had arthroscopic knee surgery Saturday and could be sidelined a month, a setback for a Miami team featuring a retooled lineup.
Butler bruised his left knee during the first day of workouts Wednesday. Tests showed no cartilage damage but revealed loose particles.
If Butler misses a month, as coach Pat Riley estimates, he would be out through the first three games of the regular season, which opens for Miami on Oct. 28 in Philadelphia. Butler finished third last season in rookie of the year balloting.
``It just sort of sets everything back,'' Riley said. ``This is very disappointing.''
Butler averaged 15.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.7 assists last season and is the cornerstone for a lineup that includes guards Dwyane Wade and Eddie Jones, forward Lamar Odom and center Brian Grant.
Butler decided to have surgery rather than deal with continued stiffness and swelling.
``I didn't want to take a chance with it,'' he said. ``And the swelling wasn't going down. We tried to wait two days. It still didn't go down.''
Updated on Saturday, Oct 4, 2003 2:13 pm EDT
October 4, 2003
MIAMI (AP) -- Heat forward Caron Butler had arthroscopic knee surgery Saturday and could be sidelined a month, a setback for a Miami team featuring a retooled lineup.
Butler bruised his left knee during the first day of workouts Wednesday. Tests showed no cartilage damage but revealed loose particles.
If Butler misses a month, as coach Pat Riley estimates, he would be out through the first three games of the regular season, which opens for Miami on Oct. 28 in Philadelphia. Butler finished third last season in rookie of the year balloting.
``It just sort of sets everything back,'' Riley said. ``This is very disappointing.''
Butler averaged 15.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.7 assists last season and is the cornerstone for a lineup that includes guards Dwyane Wade and Eddie Jones, forward Lamar Odom and center Brian Grant.
Butler decided to have surgery rather than deal with continued stiffness and swelling.
``I didn't want to take a chance with it,'' he said. ``And the swelling wasn't going down. We tried to wait two days. It still didn't go down.''
Updated on Saturday, Oct 4, 2003 2:13 pm EDT
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in the year 2008.
Both these guys will make millions sitting on the bench wearing ugly 2000 dollar suits! I love
basketball! Id hate to see how long these sticks would last if they actually played football and
got hit! I guess Caron wasn't working his legs during all that playstation 2 in the summer. Could
todays basketball player be any weaker conditioned? You might as well just dig up Minute Bol and
pay him 100,000 to play, at least if someone broke him in half on the court you wouldn't be out
8 figures. What a waste.
JS
``I didn't want to take a chance with it,'' he said. ``And the swelling wasn't going down. We tried to wait two days. It still didn't go down.''
i think what bothers me about this is the '2 days' part...back in the day (i'm feeling old this weekend lol), players likely would've waited longer than 2 days before deciding on surgery...now surgery's like drinking a cup of water to people it seems, especially for younger players. of course, i was hoping that grant hill would be back before 2008, so i'm just an optimist haha