Amar'e Stoudemire Out 6 Weeks

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ESPN.com said:
NEW YORK -- The New York Knicks suffered a "major loss" on Saturday when they learned Amar'e Stoudemire needs a knee procedure that is expected to sideline him for approximately six weeks.

"He's a big piece to the puzzle," coach Mike Woodson said. "It's a major loss to what we're trying to do but we're going to have to wait on him and continue our climb."

The team announced on Saturday evening that Stoudemire is expected to undergo a knee debridement sometime in the coming week. A debridement is a form of arthroscopic surgery that removes debris. And it's just the latest in a long list of knee ailments for the 30-year-old veteran.

Stoudemire first felt soreness in both knees earlier Saturday and sat out of the morning shootaround. An MRI later Saturday revealed surgery was required. Per the six-week timetable, Stoudemire could miss the remainder of the regular season. If he is off the floor for the full six weeks, the earliest Stoudemire would return is April 20, three days after the final game of the regular season.
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Amar'e Stoudemire seems to be having a lot of trouble staying healthy at this point in his career. What are your thoughts on this? :)
 
The Knicks are over-paying almost everyone on their team. I wouldn't be surprised if they let Stoudemire go this off-season. They'll definitely have to do something about all their bad contracts.
 
Yeah Amare is such an injury prone player now. I don't think this will really effect the Knicks that much.
 
What a pity. He's playing good in the last two games before this injury and it shows that he can still perform despite coming back from an injury.
Melo is also injured. The knicks are lucky to have JR Smith in their line-up. He's been great since the Melo-injury.
 
Homerunsox2005 said:
Yeah Amare is such an injury prone player now. I don't think this will really effect the Knicks that much.
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I agree. Basically, the Knicks are comfortable playing without him. Consider the start of the season.

Of course, this is another blow to my fantasy team :P
 
Homerunsox2005 said:
Yeah Amare is such an injury prone player now. I don't think this will really effect the Knicks that much.
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In the regular season, NO. But in the playoffs, yes it will. They need a good big man coming of the bench and Kenyon Martin can't be that. He's not a good scorer. The knicks started losing games even before Amare got back so I don't think its fair to blame him. But yeah, he and Melo becomes injury prone and that's a big punch right there for a team to have their two superstar getting injured 30 days before the playoffs.
 
Ozzie said:
The Knicks are over-paying almost everyone on their team. I wouldn't be surprised if they let Stoudemire go this off-season. They'll definitely have to do something about all their bad contracts.
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Yeah, I feel like the only acceptable contract is the one Carmelo Anthony has. Amar'e Stoudemire is paid way too much, especially if he is coming off the bench. The sixth man can be very valuable as we saw with James Harden last year, but at the same time, you have to be realistic about the value of the contributions a player makes to the team. Don't get me wrong, Amar'e was a huge name back when he was playing in Phoenix with Steve Nash, but things have changed since then.
 
I think most Knicks fans like me have given up on Amare now. The injury he had in the playoffs last year really did it for me. I can't wait until the Knicks cut him loose.
 
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