No MRI For Dampier
by Wes Cox on Jan 7, 2008 11:52 PM CST
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PrintAccording to Jeff Caplan, Dampier and the Mavs doctors saw enough improvement in his left knee that an MRI will not be necessary.
No official word yet, but there is still no reason to think he'll be ready for Detroit on Wednesday.
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two things:
- mri is a non-intrusive examination procedure, why don't they just give damp an mri to see exactly what happens to his knees?
- more worrisome, is damp breaking down? if for each great game he puts up, he'll have to miss the next two weeks, that does not seem to be a good investment for cuban.
Maybe they don't want to pay for it.
Kidding, I have no idea.
I think Dampier injured his knee in a knee-to-knee collision, so I'll put this one more in the fluke catogory than the wear-and-tear category.
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It wouldn't surprise me if the reason isn't something like that. MRI's are expensive, they're time consuming, and the machines are always quadruple booked. If Dampier is having an MRI on his knee as a "just take a look at it" measure, then someone who's gone one scheduled likely is getting bumped out of the slot. Sports teams always have cut in line privileges, but it's not something you'd do for what appears to just be a tweak sort of injury.
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