[Jeff Stotts] Re: Joel Embiid: We now know the specifics regarding his meniscus tear. A flap tear is a specific (and unfortunately complex) type of tear that is most commonly treated with a partial menisectomy. I’ve heard it compared to a hang nail or a door jam.
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shut the fuck up Jeff
My girlfriend is a PT and she says a flap is almost always a partial menisectomy where they just shave it off/remove the flap section. The outer area of the meniscus doesn’t get enough blood flow for good odds of recovery if they tried to surgically repair and conserve it.
EDIT: she corrected me. Only some parts of the meniscus don’t have adequate blood flow. Not the outer part. We don’t know where exactly in the meniscus the tear was
And the torture never stops
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No one cares what you think Jeff ! Get back in your hole !!
Season is cooked isn’t it?
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Poor joel
Why did they release this update without a timeline? Now we are just going to speculate this whole weekend. Fuck man.
Why the fuck kuminga gotta be dirty ass
I’d rather he not play this season for the gamble that he recovers and is better next season.
It’s a risk, you never know if this is the last chance for this team, but I would rather gamble like this than have Jo at 60% and get bundled out of the 2nd round again.
Dude clearly never played basketball
He’s done for the season as I thought when I saw it.
Former athlete with many knee issues here (3x ACL).
Don’t trust any of these reports. Knees are very complex and without eximinig/talking to Joel and looking at MRI it’s impossible to determine anything. Even then sometimes they open the knee up and MRI was completely wrong. With my last ACL I was supposed to have my meniscus stitched up due to how it looked on MRI but it turned out it didn’t have to be addressed at all.
Right now the only true guess is this is either 1 week or 6 months recovery. That’s as close as anyone that isn’t his direct doctor can tell you.