Promise to keep this short:

His left heel has a talus bone that is larger than normal. Many people have this. Most aren’t NBA players, and due to overuse and general basketball activity the oversized talus bone has caused his heel to become inflamed and painful.

It kept him out of 20+ games his rookie season, where the team decided to not risk surgery and use an orthoepedic insert in his shoe. It seemed to have worked and his heel problem has, largely, gone away.

Some fans wondered why the team didn’t do a ‘shave the bone’ type surgery last off-season, instead still opting for the shoe insert, and the reasons were the uncertainty caused by performing surgery on the foot. It would require cutting actual foot muscle, shaving the bone is risky in itself, and getting to the talus bone requires not-good-stuff. You mess up a NBA player’s foot, they’re pretty much done.

Plus, the talus bone could keep growing even after being shaved. Might not work.

THUS FAR, the heel doesn’t cause him real problems anymore.

Last season he lost a few games to a sprained ankle (I think) and a groin pull (which I am sure of). Plus some deaths in the family. He had this surgery in both knees before and while reportedly minor and he has always played great, of course losing the leader of the Blazers team for any amount of time is cause for great worry.

When he last had this surgery he was out for 3 weeks, according to the Oregonian.

I actually murdered the first hobo I saw and sacrificed his soul to the great Steve “Snapper” Jones in honor of Brandon Roy being healthy, and bingo bango bongo it worked— Roy will be fine.

There’s a lot of hobos around here in Santa Monica, more than enough to keep our players serious injury free from now on. I found my new Saturday night thing.

Mortimer

He created a FanPost titling it “Roy out 8-12 months.” Yeah, I definitley got Rick Rolled.

For now, was the more ironic draft move because McHale has specifically said he chose Foye over Roy because of injury concerns and Foye has missed a lot more games than Roy has.

Maybe his knees conk out by the time he’s 30, but thus far he’s only had minor stuff done to his knees; minor as far as surgeries go.

During the draft I didn’t remember injury concerns, but a lot of ‘no-upside’ concerns— he is what he is and won’t get no better.

I’ve certainly read the injury concerns since then, though. Here’s hoping he stays ok.

Mortimer