blog.oregonlive.com - 9/28/2007
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This summer, Trail Blazers star Brandon Roy was playing pickup basketball in Seattle when a familiar, albeit unpleasant, feeling returned: Pain from his left heel. "It snuck up on me a little bit this summer,'' Roy said, saying it was the same pain, in the same area, that caused him to miss 20 of the team's first 25 games last season. "I had to come down (to Portland) and get treatment.'' Roy ...
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More Portland Injuries?
SLAM Online —
... The team says it’s nothing to worry about, but Brandon Roy has felt pain in his left heel this summer, the same heel that caused him to miss 20 games last season. The Blazers are cursed, I tells ya! ...
Seattle Sports: In the Morning
Enjoy the Enjoyment —
... Brandon Roy's heel is giving him trouble again. By my count he still has 82 games left to play this season. ...
The Return of Brandon Roy's Nagging Heel Pain
FanHouse —
... won the Rookie of the Year last season; he did so despite missing twenty of the team's first twenty-five games with heel pain. According to The Oregonian, it's back: "It's a deal where I don't know what it is," Roy said. "It was smooth, then one day I was playing and I was like 'There's that heel thing again', but it went away since then." Roy's problem? An abnormal growth on the bone, which is sometimes treated by (gulp) shaving down the bone. But the second-year guard says he knows "how to monitor it a little better now," something he and ...
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Blog a Bull —
... in the Blazers' first practice. He also played only 57 games last season. And he has a growth in his heel that will only go away with (yet undone) surgery. It's only a year so I won't do the draft hindsight game. But, as I recall, one of the knocks on him coming out was that he was potentially injury-prone. Sure, his skillset would've likely solved the Bulls backcourt rotation, but not from the trainers table. ...
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