Grant Hill hopes

[scubilete]

Mar. 17, 2003 3:05 p.m.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—
Grant Hill will have surgery on his left ankle for a fourth time Tuesday in hopes this operation will finally relieve his chronic leg problems.
The six-time All-Star forward will have his ankle realigned and his heel reshaped, team officials said Monday. James Nunley, an orthopedic surgeon at Duke University Medical Center, will operate.

Hill was placed on the injured list in January after playing just 29 games. He averaged 14.5 points, 7.1 rebounds and 4.2 assists.

He has missed nearly 200 games since signing a $93 million contract with the Magic three years ago, most of them because of his left ankle.

He sustained a stress fracture in 2000 while playing for the Detroit Pistons. He has had three operations to repair it but has not been able to relieve the pain.

, Good luck Hill

[Andrew]

I guess it's worth one more shot, but after this past season, which finally looked like Hill would be back (but quickly proved otherwise), I don't think we should be too optimistic about the latest surgery. Still, maybe Hill will use all that doubt as motivation and return next year somewhat resembling the player he once was...perhaps even for 70-75 games.

[Stevan]

Credit to him for trying, obviously he really wants to honour the big contract he was given. I really do feel for him because he seems like such a good guy, and it's amazing that he's going to have surgery for the 4th time. Nerves of steel, but it looks like this will be the last go, and if it hasn't worked the first three times, the odds are that it won't again.
Hope he does make it back though

[Rens]

Maybe hes one of those people that like getting surgery

[Clinton]

There are people like that??

[scubilete]

Well, some like easy money so that's the easier you can get it, .

Associated Press
Mar. 18, 2003 2:32 p.m.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—
Grant Hill had surgery on his left ankle for the fourth time Tuesday. Doctors are confident he will play again but there is no timetable for his return.
The Orlando Magic star's heel was reshaped to realign his left leg during the operation at Duke Medical Center in Durham, N.C.

Surgeons also removed three screws from previous surgery as well as some bone. A steel plate was inserted to reinforce the stress fracture.

The heel will take three weeks to heal and Hill expects to be on crutches until late June at the earliest.

Magic general manager John Gabriel was pleased with the outcome.

"We're hopeful for Grant's recovery and return to basketball," he said. "The prognosis on his return will be based on a re-evaluation of the repaired areas in the future."

Dr. James Nunley, Hill's surgeon Tuesday, thinks one reason the stress fracture has not healed is because of a misaligned leg.

"We found no reason why Grant Hill will not be able to play basketball again for the Orlando Magic," Nunley said. "His bone had good strength and good blood supply and we felt good about how the surgery proceeded.

"Although I feel like he will play basketball again, there is no time frame at the present to when he will be able to return to play."

[Clinton]

Positive news.

[Stevan]

Grant Hill will play basketball again. He will participate in next years All-Star weekend, playing 3 on 3 alongside a current NBA player (yet to be announced), a current WNBA player (yet to be announced), and Will Smith, representing the East.

[Nick]

Grant Hill will play basketball again. He wont participate in next years All-Star weekend, playing 3 on 3 in a big orgy (yet to be announced), a current supermodel winner (yet to be announced), and he will announce his lost born child.

:? Stevan, You're so silly...it didn't even say that... you just changed the quote... (:lol:)

[mp3]

if hill comes back half the player he was and the magic add a decent big man then the magic will be champs 2004

[Divan Santana]

only champs they can think of being in 2004 is the east conf champs...

[Stevan]

Drew Gooden is descent... but Orlando won't be stable enough to win a title until the whole Grant Hill thing is dead and buried...

[Bill Russell]

Poor Grant... He was a very good player, I liked to watch him in action. Best wishes to him.