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Guess we know the "mystery," disease he had and Dejan was 100%Dejan Bimble posted:Our friend alonzo ball is bone on bone
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Its a very relatively new procedure. Step 2: Growing cells in the laboratory The harvested rice-grain-sized cartilage specimen along with the patient’s blood sample is taken to the laboratory. The cartilage cells are isolated from the tissue sample and grown in the patient’s blood serum under sterile conditions. This procedure completely rules out any contact with proteins or blood components foreign to the body. At the end of the production process, which typically takes 6-8 weeks, small spherical cell aggregates have formed which contain hundreds of thousands of augmentable cartilage cells. The cartilage cells are transported back to the clinic within hours inside special refrigerated containers to preserve the quality of the cells.
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Embiid and Harden are on the cusp of history:code:WhyteRyce posted:looooooooooooooooool so it begins Ja leans over and whispers in Jalen's ear, "I got that gun from Gaston Glock."
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 if that's his MVP award this year.Fast Luck posted:I went to LA once in my life and all the city buses on the digital screens would alter between saying like "L5 BEVERLY HILLS" or whatever and "RIP KOBE BRYANT" and there were Kobe shrines all over the city. To be fair I guess Kobe was dead at the time, but it being on the city buses was kind of a surprise to me I remember being in LA and watching the Lakers game on the local broadcast. Kobe grabbed sixteen rebounds which was his career high. He had nine assists and easily would've had a TD if his teammates didn't miss a ton of shots. morestuff posted:https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1636461269124259870?s=46&t=3d9JmXOJWgE8nozHLwUyjQ Lonzo Ball has been rebuilt more times than Grewishka in Alita: Battle Angel.
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Dexo posted:https://twitter.com/chicagobulls/status/1636489917239795713 DNP: Haunted by ghost of cadaver cartilage donor
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Traxis posted:DNP: Haunted by ghost of cadaver cartilage donor
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God, that sucks. Announcing in March that he will miss most of NEXT season is just brutal.
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watching that embiid clip has made me appreciate how being extremely tall would be really annoying
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The bulls medical staff have tried bleeding him, they've tried treating Phlegmatic AND choloric humors, the Miasma in the locker room was completely aerated and replaced with the finest vapors of mercury and arsenic. He's been on a strict graham cracker and cocaine diet for months, but sometimes evil spirits get in your bones, what can you do?
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Seams posted:watching that embiid clip has made me appreciate how being extremely tall would be really annoying I've always thought "if I could get some extra height, I'd want 2" to get me to 6'5". anything more would be inconvenient." I can't imagine what 6'8" plus is like
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The market is about to tank. Michael Jordan wants to get every last dollar he can get before poo poo goes upside down https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1636502076376137729?s=46&t=dl5ETRs5hkb8I7efMrPz9Q
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Fate Accomplice posted:I've always thought "if I could get some extra height, I'd want 2" to get me to 6'5". anything more would be inconvenient." Wembanyama walking around in an apartment all hunched over
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Dexo posted:https://twitter.com/chicagobulls/status/1636489917239795713 The last/only one I remember this being done on was pro wrestler Rey Mysterio, who'd had 12 knee surgeries and his knee they were doing it on at the time was just straight-up bone/no cartilage, and he was over fifteen years older than Lonzo is when needing it There's hope he can still do stuff/obviously come back, but uhhhh yeah this is really not good/he's extremely hosed if he's already in this dire a shape. 25 and just completely shredded a knee in a way you only see in veterans age-wise
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Jordan has never seemed to actually enjoy owning a basketball team. Like say whatever about Cuban but the dude is all about his team and what it brings. Give Jordan a billion dollars to play golf, smoke cigars and have expensive steak dinners.
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Dexo posted:https://twitter.com/chicagobulls/status/1636489917239795713  Retirement time.
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Jack's Flow posted:God, that sucks. Announcing in March that he will miss most of NEXT season is just brutal. Reading up on it, it's 90% chance of success and that he's going to be good for 5 years, but by ten years it's basically a coin toss if his knee works.
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Lonzo and Brandon Roy going to be sitting in whicker chairs on a porch somewhere swapping war stories.
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Jack's Flow posted:God, that sucks. Announcing in March that he will miss most of NEXT season is just brutal. They've known for awhile now that he's probably done. They waited to announce he was out for this season after the date they could get an injury exemption because they're cheap. Guessing they'll play that same game next year so they don't have to spend $20 million.
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Lockback posted:The bulls medical staff have tried bleeding him, they've tried treating Phlegmatic AND choloric humors, the Miasma in the locker room was completely aerated and replaced with the finest vapors of mercury and arsenic. He's been on a strict graham cracker and cocaine diet for months, but sometimes evil spirits get in your bones, what can you do? What about enemas and leeches? Are the Bulls too broke to afford those procedures?
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Has anyone tried drilling into his knee at a barbershop??
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Seams posted:watching that embiid clip has made me appreciate how being extremely tall would be really annoying Fate Accomplice posted:I've always thought "if I could get some extra height, I'd want 2" to get me to 6'5". anything more would be inconvenient." mdemone posted:Wembanyama walking around in an apartment all hunched over Boots Riley will show us all https://twitter.com/bootsriley/status/1632831147431587840?s=46&t=onxyh9cLuduaEE8VkMrnMQ
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I’m going to put a single tiny molecule of “unhealthy knee” in water and make lonzo drink it
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Dejan Bimble posted:The market is about to tank. Michael Jordan wants to get every last dollar he can get before poo poo goes upside down 
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Seams posted:watching that embiid clip has made me appreciate how being extremely tall would be really annoying I've talked to multiple euro bigs who take minimum contacts in the nba, making less money than they would back home, just to play in a country which can accommodate a 7 foot human in day to day life.
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pentyne posted:Reading up on it, it's 90% chance of success and that he's going to be good for 5 years, but by ten years it's basically a coin toss if his knee works. Success rate based on what, though? Success in a population of 65+ relatively unathletic people being able to walk and perform old hobbies again? I think any studies done on young athletes is going to have a sample size too small for the results to be meaningful for this procedure. The incidence of this at his age is small.
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Vinestalk posted:Success rate based on what, though? Success in a population of 65+ relatively unathletic people being able to walk and perform old hobbies again? I think any studies done on young athletes is going to have a sample size too small for the results to be meaningful for this procedure. The incidence of this at his age is small. It seems like it's a fairly new procedure that is focused on total recovery of the joint, if you are overweight or 50+ you are not a viable candidate for the procedure. It's pretty interesting, the fact they're going to that level to treat Lonzo means other methods aren't working, and this is one of the more extreme options to regain his playing ability. At this level it's either this or a total knee replacement. https://medicine.missouri.edu/news/study-shows-most-knee-cartilage-transplant-recipients-return-sports-within-two-years quote:Stannard and co-author James Cook, DVM, PhD, William & Kathryn Allen Distinguished Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery and director of the Mizzou BioJoint Center, examined data from OCA transplantation cases performed between June 2015 and March 2018 that involved 37 athletes who underwent this specialized surgical procedure for injury or overuse-related cartilage damage in the knee. They found 25 of the patients had returned to sports, with 17 returning to the same or higher level of sport compared with their preinjury level including elite unit military and competitive athletes returning at a significantly higher proportion (100% and 75%, respectively) than recreational athletes. The median time to return to sport was 16 months after OCA transplantation. pentyne fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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Fate Accomplice posted:I've always thought "if I could get some extra height, I'd want 2" to get me to 6'5". anything more would be inconvenient." Wasn’t there a 6’8” guy here
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cisneros posted:Wasn’t there a 6’8” guy here I'm 6'6" and can confirm I hit my head on a lot of stuff.
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I thought lonzo got the worst share of the "son of lavar ball" poo poo that people were tired out on when lamelo came into the league. sad.
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It was nice having Jordan as an owner if only as a symbolic thing for the league, but I’ll be very happy to see the team change hands. Don’t know if these guys have deeper pockets or are more motivated but at least it spares us from Buzz Petersen: GM I guess they could potentially move the team but the city just extended the arena lease like two months ago and I doubt that would have agreed to that if the plan was Seattle ASAP
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On the one hand, I wish I was a bit taller, at least taller than my dad. On the other, being 5'10 170lbs is like the world is built exactly to your specifications.
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pentyne posted:It seems like it's a fairly new procedure that is focused on total recovery of the joint, if you are overweight or 50+ you are not a viable candidate for the procedure. This is pretty cool. Their definition of competitive/elite is collegiate and high school, so younger and less demanding imo. They also separate it out by the type of procedure, which stratifies risk/recovery. But can only hope these are promising results for Lonzo. I think it's a big risk but the only alternative this guy's got at this point is retiring.
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cisneros posted:Wasn’t there a 6’8” guy here 6'7" here, it's fine but options are pretty limited for shoes and clothes, long tshirts becoming fashionable was handy It was worth it for being able to dunk (until I blew up both my achilles)
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cisneros posted:Wasn’t there a 6’8” guy here I also went to high school with Igor Vovkovinskiy (RIP), who became famous because a pituitary issue caused him to be 6'8" by the time he was in second grade. He was 7'6" in high school and every once in a while he had to ride the bus I rode home. He seemingly had to bend about halfway over to get on and off the thing and man did I pity him. He tried to join the basketball team, but the pituitary issue that caused him to grow so fast left his bones so weak that he had stress fractures in both feet after one practice. dokmo posted:I've talked to multiple euro bigs who take minimum contacts in the nba, making less money than they would back home, just to play in a country which can accommodate a 7 foot human in day to day life. Living in old European cities is not for anyone who is either very tall or even remotely claustrophobic. I did the stair climb to the top of St. Paul's Cathedral in London once, and because it was built so long ago when people were so much shorter I had to bend over a bit during parts of it even though I'm 5'11" in shoes.
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