Dirk's MRI Results Are In - No Tears!
Art Gracia is reporting that the MRI this morning showed Dirk sprained his knee and ankle.
Nothing is torn which was obviously everyones biggest fear, so I guess this is good news.
Dirk always recovers from these ankle sprains rather quickly, but the sprained knee and the fact that this is a high ankle sprain could make this one a little more complicated.
My uneducated guess is that Mark Cuban's initial two week diagnosis will be a pretty good one.
Two weeks would see Dirk miss seven of the remaining 12 games.
- vs LAC
- at DEN
- at GSW
- at LAC
- vs GSW
- at LAL
- at PHX
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Dirk's injury
by jthig32 on Mar 24, 2008 8:30 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
High ankle
by jthig32 on Mar 24, 2008 8:30 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Inshallah
by pollackj on Mar 25, 2008 3:38 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
If he can contribute in two weeks....
A little primer on the injury here.
Judging from the reports of the MRI revealing no tears, it sounds like the stable variety. Which is good that it won't require surgery, but is unlikely to be healed enough in that amount of time. Those ligaments are very slow to heal and generally have the same treatment as a break - put it in a cast and wait six weeks.
It's conceivable that he could be on the court in a couple weeks, but we can't expect anything near 100%, even if he's sleeping in TO's hyperbaric chamber.
I suppose the "benefit" would be that he would most likely re-injure the ankle trying to play and would have to sit out summer ball this year.
by DitchThePlaybook on Mar 25, 2008 11:33 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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