Devin Booker underwent hand surgery and is out six weeks

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specialsauce wrote:
Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:24 pm
Total bullshit. He had a boxers fracture repaired it sounds like. He injured it punching something or someone, very little doubt about that.
Did I miss something in the news on this? I thought it said "fifth metacarpophalangeal joint" surgery. Isn't that likely to be ligament damage there? Or some type of capsule damage? Is there a medical term I missed that highlighted it as a fracture?

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No, he was just guessing a boxers fracture as that deals with the same joint.

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I think saucy is a physician, which is why I was asking.

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http://arizonasports.com/story/1661825/ ... ckup-game/
“As you guys know he did have the injury late last year,” McDonough said, referring to a lingering issue for Booker during the end of the 2017-18 season for which he missed the final 12 games. “There were no symptoms over the summer. The hand died down, it calmed down a little bit, it looked good, there was nothing structurally wrong with it.”

The GM went on to explain that in recent weeks, the Suns have had members of their NBA roster in the gym for workouts and pickup games. That’s when the swelling happened.

“Just in one of those games, the hand swelled up,” he said. “There was no trauma that we could see — it wasn’t like he hit it or jammed it or anything stood out unusually while he was playing. The hand just swelled up.”

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ESPN was on where I was eating lunch with the sound off but closed captioning on and whoever was talking was talking about what a veteran move it was and how he was able to skip training camp and preseason and wait to get paid. I think he was talking out of his ass. The Booker I (think I) know wouldn't do that. Maybe the contract thing but would he really wait that long afterward to get it taken care of? I tend to believe Occam's Razor and that it just recently swelled up and needed to be taken care of. End of story.
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Maybe, maybe not. I don't think Booker, with a new coach and system in place and talking of wanting to make the playoffs, would do that. Veterans have done stuff like this before, pretty sure Pippen and Shaq had minor surgeries taken care of right before training camp during their careers.

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I don' think Amare was ever cleared to play in training camp after 2003.

All the reports about Book are that he's the hardest worker and most demanding guy on the team even in practice, so I don't think he planned this to miss camp. I do think he's been ignoring his discomfort and still needs to learn when to listen to his body and get things taken care of.
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Indy wrote:
Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:57 am
specialsauce wrote:
Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:24 pm
Total bullshit. He had a boxers fracture repaired it sounds like. He injured it punching something or someone, very little doubt about that.
Did I miss something in the news on this? I thought it said "fifth metacarpophalangeal joint" surgery. Isn't that likely to be ligament damage there? Or some type of capsule damage? Is there a medical term I missed that highlighted it as a fracture?
Nah, you didn’t miss anything. Honestly just me jumping to conclusions. That’s the most common injury at that site. See it weekly. It could very well be a ligament injury if he got the finger caught in a jersey or swapped at by another player, it’s just less likely than other fingers because of the size more likely one of your other fingers would get hit first.

McD was adamant today it’s something that just swelled up over time without obvious incident so I don’t know. They never gave any specifics about what was damaged, only the joint involved. Very suspicious. You never hear a player had knee surgery, they are always specific about what was done.

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Oh noes! And the trouble continues...

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Failing to appear in court for a speeding ticket? When you have a $156M contract and get a speeding ticket, you pay it. Why fight it?

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All conjecture at this point but it sounds like Booker was being a dumbass.

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iLLmatic wrote:
Tue Sep 11, 2018 10:14 pm
All conjecture at this point but it sounds like Booker was being a dumbass.
Only the baseless conjecture is making it sound like that.

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I don't get why a subset of folks here are deciding (based on, as far as I can tell, zero evidence) that Booker injured himself by doing something stupid like getting into a fight or falling off a bike. Why assume the worst about a guy who has in general been a high-character player? Why not take the word of the player, the GM, and the team? Isn't the simplest explanation probably right here, that he just felt pain when trying to play games? What is the point of concocting a baseless theory about Booker being a troublemaker who broke his hand doing something bad?

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Marty [Mori Chu] wrote:
Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:02 am
I don't get why a subset of folks here are deciding (based on, as far as I can tell, zero evidence) that Booker injured himself by doing something stupid like getting into a fight or falling off a bike. Why assume the worst about a guy who has in general been a high-character player? Why not take the word of the player, the GM, and the team? Isn't the simplest explanation probably right here, that he just felt pain when trying to play games? What is the point of concocting a baseless theory about Booker being a troublemaker who broke his hand doing something bad?
It is the way of the board, Marty. :P ;) No good thing is allowed to come to the Suns. OGW inhabits all. Ayton is lazy and can't play defense.
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Superbone wrote:
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Marty [Mori Chu] wrote:
Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:02 am
I don't get why a subset of folks here are deciding (based on, as far as I can tell, zero evidence) that Booker injured himself by doing something stupid like getting into a fight or falling off a bike. Why assume the worst about a guy who has in general been a high-character player? Why not take the word of the player, the GM, and the team? Isn't the simplest explanation probably right here, that he just felt pain when trying to play games? What is the point of concocting a baseless theory about Booker being a troublemaker who broke his hand doing something bad?
It is the way of the board, Marty. :P ;) No good thing is allowed to come to the Suns. OGW inhabits all. Ayton is lazy and can't play defense.
In fairness, over the past eight years or so, assuming the worst has been a fairly reliable guide to the truth.

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I'll just say it.

I kind of wonder whether people would assume Booker got into a fight or trouble etc. if he were white.

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Marty [Mori Chu] wrote:
Wed Sep 12, 2018 11:09 am
I'll just say it.

I kind of wonder whether people would assume Booker got into a fight or trouble etc. if he were white.
Or if he hadn’t recently gotten into a fight on video.

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Cap wrote:
Wed Sep 12, 2018 11:17 am
Marty [Mori Chu] wrote:
Wed Sep 12, 2018 11:09 am
I'll just say it.

I kind of wonder whether people would assume Booker got into a fight or trouble etc. if he were white.
Or if he hadn’t recently gotten into a fight on video.
This.

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