Preseason gets underway tonight - Hawes to undergo knee surgery.

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[drupal=2]Preseason gets underway tonight - Hawes to undergo knee surgery.[/drupal]

The Sacramento Kings will kickoff their preseason tonight with a game at Arco Arena vs. the Seattle Supersonics. Game time is 7:00PM and the game will be available on Comcast Sports Net West, on cable, Dish, and DirecTV. The game can also be heard on KHTK 1140am. Be sure to check out the KingsFans.com play-by-play thread and login after the game to discuss how the team looked.

The game may be a bit painful to watch. Training camp opened up only a week ago and many of the players are probably still trying to knock some rust loose. Marty Mac wrote a good article in the Bee today about how training camp is just too short. The article is being discussed here.

We should get our first view of Mikki Moore in a Kings uniform but don't expect to see first round draft pick Spencer Hawes anytime soon. After heading to Seattle to seek a second opinion on his injured left knee the Kings today announced Hawes will undergo arthroscopic surgery on Wednesday. Shareef Abdur-Raheen is also out for tonight's game with Ron Artest and Francisco Garcia questionable.

-JGar
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VF21

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I just wish him a complete recovery.

BTW? NICE job on the front page, Jeremy! And I absolutely love the idea of you writing articles once in a while.

Major props!!!!
 
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When will Hawes play?

Hey I know that they will have a better estimate of Hawes after the surgery, but how long is the recovery time for this type of surgery? I'm just sad that the worst rebounding team from last year (lowest number of rebounds per game) will be missing their backup center. Sounds to me like he will be missing a few of the first games of the season. Also, if anyone's been through arthroscopic surgery is it possible to jump as high after the surgery (have a full recovery)?

From the guy who started off with a rebound rant, I hope that the Kings can go after some rebounds (I'd prefer above the rim) and also get into that position (and by that I mean play new defense, not powerpoint defense).
 
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Let's just hope this isn't exploratory surgery leading to microfracture once the doc gets a closer look, as in Greg Oden....
 
VF21

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Here's what the Bee had to say about the surgery:

http://www.sacbee.com/kings/story/422780.html

Kings rookie Hawes to undergo knee surgery
By Sam Amick - Bee Staff Writer
Last Updated 12:52 pm PDT Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Kings rookie center Spencer Hawes will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Wednesday, the team announced Tuesday.

Hawes missed the first week of training camp after injuring his knee during offseason conditioning drills Sept. 27. After two MRIs he flew to his hometown of Seattle for a second opinion with Dr. Lawrence Holland, who will perform the procedure.

While it's not known how long Hawes will be out, Kings coach Reggie Theus had said this operation was the best case scenario.

"If he needs to have a cleanup (arthroscopic surgery), then I'm very happy," Theus said Friday.

Seattle rookie Kevin Durant, a close friend of Hawes, said he spoke with him Monday night.

"He was kind of upset," Durant said. "He's upset he got hurt. But I just told him to slow down, don't rush into it and you'll be back in no time."

The worst-case scenario for the Kings and Hawes would have been for the center to undergo microfracture surgery, a procedure Holland performed on Hawes as a 14 year old.

The Kings open the exhibition season Tuesday night against the SuperSonics.
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I don't think it's anything like Oden.
 
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fnordius said:
On the other hand, SAR's cleanup was on June 24 or so, and he's not expected to play until at least early November. If Hawes' recovery is that long, we can forget about him until mid February.
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Age makes a difference...
 
LPKingsFan

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Another story, this one from the Seattle Times. Raises the spectre of microfracture, I'm afraid:

The best-case scenario for the Sacramento Kings' center is a two to four weeks' recovery, but given his history with knee problems, the Kings are unsure when he would be able to play. Hawes has had at least four procedures, including at least two scopes on the left knee.

If this surgery doesn't work, Hawes could face more serious microfracture surgery, which could end his season
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sonics/2003936503_webhawes09.html
 
SacTownKid

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Well, I have seen the guy play so I know why we drafted him and I would think that Petrie would have had to have known his medical history.
 
supamari0

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BMiller52 said:
IIRC Oden was just supposed to need arthroscopic surgery as well.
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No Oden's was an exploratory surgery. Microfracture surgery is a type of arthroscopic surgery. Arthroscopic surgery is a name for virtually any type of knee surgery. Any time they cut open your knee, they will use an endoscope to look around in there and open a couple of other holes for the surgical tools. That's the arthroscopic part. Now what they do inside your knee varies with your injury.

Case in point. Oden's MRIs and x-rays were inconclusive as to what his problem was. So they cut open his knee to find out what was wrong since that was the only way to truly figure out what was wrong. They cut it open and found out that he had enough cartilage damage to warrant a microfracture surgery. Since they had already cut open his knee they just performed it then.

Hawes is basically having the same thing. All tests are inconclusive and they're opening up his knee to see what's wrong. These things are a crapshoot because modern tests for the knee still aren't very good. But his history of knee surgeries definitely doesn't make things look good. I'd be worried.
 
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supamari0 said:
No Oden's was an exploratory surgery. Microfracture surgery is a type of arthroscopic surgery. Arthroscopic surgery is a name for virtually any type of knee surgery. Any time they cut open your knee, they will use an endoscope to look around in there and open a couple of other holes for the surgical tools. That's the arthroscopic part. Now what they do inside your knee varies with your injury.

Case in point. Oden's MRIs and x-rays were inconclusive as to what his problem was. So they cut open his knee to find out what was wrong since that was the only way to truly figure out what was wrong. They cut it open and found out that he had enough cartilage damage to warrant a microfracture surgery. Since they had already cut open his knee they just performed it then.

Hawes is basically having the same thing. All tests are inconclusive and they're opening up his knee to see what's wrong. These things are a crapshoot because modern tests for the knee still aren't very good. But his history of knee surgeries definitely doesn't make things look good. I'd be worried.
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Yea that's my point bro. I'm worried I'm gonna come home from school tomorrow and read "kings rookie hawes has microfracture surgery".

This sucks.
 
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While it sucks, it could be worse...much worse. We could be a contending team and Hawes could be our franchise player. Imagine how we'd feel then.

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Oh wait. We've already been there.

We'll survive.

:)
 
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