D'Angelo Russell Discussion: Adopting A Professional Attitude

Russell intent on being 100%

Tania Ganguli

http://www.pressreader.com/usa/los-angeles-times/20161127/282329679545333

He's young and a cornerstone to the Lakers future so sure they have to exert utmost caution with this, and we're dealing with the KNEE. Just going for the low hanging black humor here. But can you imagine how much different Kobe's career and numbers would have been if he had always had to be 100%?

 

That's how I understood it too. They would take blood and preserve it and then inject it back into the athlete at later date after their body's normal replenishment of the lost blood had already taken place on its own? Did they also do anything "trick" with the blood they took?

 

To be fair to him, he's making his money off of his body. There is a future 100 million contract waiting for him if he's healthy.

There are some things you just don't take a chance on

 

This site does a decent explanation of it:

http://orthonc.com/your-health/what-is-prp-therapy

 

I don't know obviously, but I could imagine him still playing at a relatively fine level with his original Achilles as one of the options. Less numbers in some times could very well result in better ones at other - additional - times. I have always admired Kobe's willingness and ability to play through most injuries, but was it the smart thing to do? That I am not so sure of.

 

Hmmm. Wonder why Kobe's name not mentioned in this paragraph:

Who has used PRP therapy?

Were his treatments in Germany something a little different, or did Lakers haters write the article?



"Orthokine" mentioned here but sounds pretty much like the same thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthokine

 

Think of all the times he somehow was able to go out there and perform to a high level as if or almost as if nothing had happened, compared to if we had not had him on the floor as would have been the case so many times with anyone else with some of those injuries. That's all I'm getting at. Kobe of course being part cyborg is an unfair comparison for any other athlete.

 

Agreed

Kobe was extreme, I don't want any of our players to go that far. That doesn't mean I want them to sit out every little thing. But from all we've heard so far it seems DLO did try to play through it. In my book he's done nothing wrong. He's the future, let him take care of his body.

 

I think Russell's knee issues come from the way he lands after he shoots. He needs to learn to land differently

 

JK ..... but if you're talking about his "J" he would need to jump before he could land.

 

That is encouraging. Thanks.

 

Don't think it's anything to be too concerned about yet. D'Angelo doesn't have a history of knee or injuries in general. Seems precautionary more than anything. Get him 100 percent. Lakers showing they can win.

 

Actually that Tania Ganguli article on the previous page mentions a procedure on a knee in high school but doesn't say what it was or if it was anything serious or the same knee.

http://www.pressreader.com/usa/los-angeles-times/20161127/282329679545333

 

The way he plays (low to the ground), he should be another Andre Miller, not Brandon Roy .
Get your ish together kid, work on those tooth picks next summer .

 

The notion of doping varies from country to country ... There are reasons why some "procedures" aren't global ... I agree with TRD here

 

Maybe the fact that he was trying to play through a minor injury caused it to progress. He's young, he's going to want to always go out and play. He probably did it during preseason because he hasn't looked the same since then.

I don't think it's a recurring injury that would affect him in the long run.