re: Anyone noticed Zion has gone missing?

He’s just rehabbing. Don’t worry - he’s coming back and will happily be a team player. Just after the all star break. He’ll be here. Buy your playoff tix.

Just to reset the stage here. Zion supposedly had foot surgery during the summer. There has been no talk of planning or needing another surgery which would be concerning for sure.

With a broken bone, you can have surgery, they can put pins and do any number of things, but at some point you need the bones to heal. And that takes the time that it takes.

Most recently, he had biological injections in an attempt to speed up that process, and has been pulled off the court so to speak in an effort to completely let it heal. That was about two weeks ago, and we are in the middle of a 4-6 week timeline.

At some point mid to late January, they should be doing more scans to see how the healing has done after the rest and injections. In theory, this has already been a pretty conservative approach. If it’s progressed nicely, he should be back on the court. If there hasn’t been much movement, you will likely see him shut down completely.

None of this is likely impacted by rehab, effort or eating truly. The bone just flat out needs to heal.

Eating and goin out at Duke bars

The injury is what it is. As noted it took Durant a full year and multiple surgeries to fix the same problem, but it hasn’t reoccurred for him. Embid also barely played his first three years in the league due to foot problems and came back as an All Star.

The real issue is Zion’s secrecy and silence. If he just gave fans something, made some statements about what’s going on and his commitment to come back stronger, a lot of this crap would stop. I really don’t understand the decision to throw a blanket over the whole thing by his camp. Piss poor public relations. He could turn this thing around with just a little candor and transparency.

Saw him at Footaction is the esplanade mall yesterday. He’s still around

Even when Oden played he averaged 10 pts 7 reb and 1 assist. That’s a little different than 26 pts 7 reb 3 assists.

Also, the entire Oden argument is obviously dumb, but still, your stat is misleading considering Oden missed his entire rookie year and entire 4th, 5th, and 6th year, but then you included games from his 7th year as “1st 3 years”. He played 82 in his first 3 years and the majority of it he was a shitty basketball player

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Psst, your "fact" is wrong

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Sorry, Shelly, you're wrong. Greg Oden's total NBA career was three years.

08-09: Portland - 61 games played - 6 playoff games played
09-10: Portland - 21 games played
13-14: Miami - 23 games played - 3 playoff games played

Can't help it if you don't have enough fingers and toes to do the addition.

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just stop, your fun fact was stupidly irrelevant

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Perhaps to you, but totally relevant as to "The Unplayable Superstar".

Zion wasn't the pick man. He's been out of shape since he joined the Pels and his body can't handle it. Ja Morant is turning into a fricking superstar while the Pels fat arse has missed more games than he's played.

Pretty much.

This is one of those hindsight games that you cant really do because there was just no situation where Zion wasn't the consensus pick by 30 out of 30 teams and unlike, say, the Oden draft, Ja was never, by anyone, seen as a KD level talent.

To me the one that still stings is only Garland. Was the 1 and 2 consensus at 4 and is looking like the 3rd best player in that draft. And with the way he plays, despite earlier injury concerns, I personally think he will have n overall healthier and longer career than Ja.

Which is the other thing, Ja has Derick Rose career written all over him. Burning bright early and strong, but plays a game that is not long for this league.