Carmelo Anthony opens up about his off-season surgeries – NBA Update
New York Knicks super star Carmelo Anthony was operated upon once last season ended; something that the wider NBA audience didn’t believe was on the radar.
In a recent interview Carmelo Anthony talked about his rehabilitation and how he deliberately kept it under wraps.
The forward revealed that he was carrying small niggles in his elbow and knee, a thing which is hard to imagine, looking back at the high level of performances he put up, especially in the playoffs when he took on the might of
the Boston Celtics almost by himself.
"Something I like to keep off the radar," Anthony told WFAN. "I just wanted to go in there and get it done and not have a big movie surrounding that. Eventually it came out. It came out when I was healthy.''
He had loose chips removed from his left elbow in one procedure and in another, on his knee, broken bone fragments were taken out. The player revealed the injuries had troubled him while playing and that he took the New York Knicks
into confidence before going under the knife.
"I felt [the Knicks] were the only people who should know at that point," said Anthony, who added that he "wasn't feeling right throughout the whole season. I needed surgery for a long time. They didn't know how I was playing with
an elbow injury.''
Anthony has though made a quick recovery since the procedures. The player started work in the gym soon afterwards and in recent weeks has been hitting the court hard. In fact, Melo has been a prominent feature on the pro-am circuits
and played in some very high profile charity games against, and alongside, some other NBA stars.
After playing in such event in Miami (with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade), Philadelphia, Winston-Salem and N.C., Anthony is planning on hosting one himself in New York. That game could go ahead if the NBA lockout continues which,
unfortunately, looks set to be the case.
NBA players have been locked out by the league since July 1st and the labour dispute has already cost them the preseason and training camps. On Monday, after hectic efforts to reach a compromise between NBA owners and
players failed, NBA Commissioner David Stern cancelled the first two weeks of the regular season.
That means a guaranteed pay cut for NBA players, with more expected to follow. Anthony, one of the top earners in the NBA, will lose approximately $1.6 million in lost pay checks in the first two weeks. He admits that it’s not
a nice feeling.
"It's stressful," Anthony said. "If it's a dollar, if it's 10 dollars, losing money is losing money, regardless of how much you have."
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