Grant Hill Says Pistons, Magic Mismanaged Ankle Injury

Trainers and doctors are never wrong. This can't be true Mr. Hill.

 

2 players who cause of injuries, never lived up to the greatness that should of been, Penny and G Hill.

Used to love watching them back in the days.

 

Grant Hill was my favorite player I loved watching him play his game was so beautiful. It hurt me like hell when he left Detroit, but I knew it was for the best.

I never thought in a million years his ankle would kill his chance at being a hall of famer. Its so sad to see it happen to such a nice guy like Hill.

He should have sat out that Heat series.

 

Have you guys worn Hill's Filas? I did back in the early to mid-90s and I tell you the mid top support is like a shroud of fakeness. It literally does nothing for ankle support.

 

I think we can also add B. Roy and may be to certain extent T-Mac to the list.

 

if it is true, i think the NBA should began teaching thoes team doctors how to handle different kind of injuries.

it's unbelievable, the only thing that team doctors are asked to do is to treat injuries and some of them can not do it..... maybe our team doctors should all go to pheonix to learn how to treat injuries.

 

or we can pay them a little more and bring them here instead of the incompetent doctors we have here

 

Mismanagement reminds me of how the Rockets treated McGrady's injury, insisting his knee was okay to play and McGrady having to pull himself out. Teams are so anxious to win they end up destroying their most valuable assets.

 

“The next day the doctor who performed (my) surgery picks the paper up and saw that I played like 30 minutes and he was irate,” Hill said. “I wasn’t supposed to be on the court doing basketball-related activity until December. So somewhere along the line, the ball was dropped. And certainly I didn’t know that until the doctor informed me of that. Apparently he had forwarded all the information down there to Orlando. I was told to follow the instructions. I played in another game in Miami the next night and they shut me down to do rehab for five or six weeks. By then it was too late. What should’ve been a six- or seven-month recovery before you get on the court to play, I was on the court in three or four months.

“I don’t think it was a conspiracy that, ‘Hey, we gotta get him out there.’ Someone just didn’t read the protocol. Which is crazy. You invest $92 million in somebody ... I just kept thinking, ‘I can’t believe how poorly mismanaged this has been


And this is exactly why it's not as simple as blaming the doctors.....


Also, players themselves need to oversee more of their rehab and diagnosis. Hill has to take some blame, even if just a little, for this. Players have the money to get second and third opinions, to see out better or more open minded doctors. They can pick up the phone, call the doc, and ask, "how long should i be out there?" They shouldn't let teams deal with everything.

 

It's not really fair for Hill to point ALL of the blame on the Magic doctors and management. He has to take a certain responsibility for his own health, and read up on the proper way to rehabilitate himself. I understand that players face a lot of pressure to live up to the giant deals they sign, but he could have easily told Orlando that he needed to until December to rest the ankle. If Magic management THEN force him to go out onto the court anyways, he has a case against them. Until then though, he has to take at least some of the blame for this.

 

And I thought Hill was the one who decided to play against recommendations, when he played that series against Miami the media gave it an heroic connotation, it turned out to be martyrdom instead. It is such a shame because he really was the best all around player at the time, not to mention a fan favorite.

It's more surprising because he is practically saying he was fooled. And I thought Hill was the one who decided to play against recommendations, when he played that series against Miami the media gave it an heroic connotation, it turned out to be martyrdom instead. It is such a shame because he really was the best all around player at the time, not to mention a fan favorite.

 

You only get 2nd and 3rd opinions prior to a surgery, I've never heard of a patient agreeing to a surgery, and then not trusting the doctor who did the surgery on the recovery method and asking other doctors about it.

I'm not sure why you think Grant Hill has any fault in this. Unless you think he's not supposed to trust anybody and have the gatorade checked out for poison every time, he wants the ball boys to get NBI clearance just in case they're terrorists in disguise and have his locker checked before the game just in case a bomb was placed on it. Hill already said he had no idea he wasn't supposed to be playing, the franchise employs people who are supposed to do all the coordination between the player and the doctor. Its not like the doctor didn't tell anyone, according to the article he forwarded emails to everyone in the organization. Anybody on the FO should have seen Hill playing, and then warned him about the email.

 

When they're young, they feel they're invincible.

It's playoff time, players don't want to sit it out, neither the fans nor management. Similarly Lowry and Scola wanted to play through the pain late in our season.

Mismanaged for 4-5 years? Hill was not consulting the best doctors then.

If there's pain, don't play on it. That should be the rule. Even when the doctors give the okay. Especially with injury prone players, err on the side of caution.

 

we should also send our team doctors to Phoenix too. i heard they have a great medical staff.

 

Never under estimate the incompetence of management. Hill thought they'd be careful with his situation because they invested 92 mil. But really incompetent people have F'ed up much more money than 92 mil.

 

The problem is that he didn't understand what the limitations from the surgery were. He just trusted that the team would fill him in on what he could and couldn't do. However, if you are getting operated on, it is your responsibility to understand your treatment. It doesn't matter that you have other medical staff treating you- you need to ask

 

He specifically said people, including doctors, didn't believe he was really injured initially. He also said he was playing in pain, not because he wanted to be a hero,b ut because he was cleared. The second and third opinions don't have to be surgery related. He can get them at any point in regards to any symptom or issue he's having with his ankle. Call me crazy, but if we're talking about my health i'm not going to hand everything over to other people, especially if i see i'm not getting better or am having other issues. If you were hurt on the job, would you seriously not call up the doctor and get his diagnosis and rehab schedule yourself? If your manager has you out there working and youre still in pain, are you not going to wonder if something went wrong? My first instinct would be to ask the doctor why i'm in pain, under the assumption he cleared me too early. I would have then found out the mistake was made by my employer, not the doctor.

Doctors aren't superhuman, neither are NBA general managers. They make mistakes. They aren't all upstanding citizens either. There's no guarantees, not even that the cashier at Mcdonalds is going to give you the correct change. It's up to you to confirm it...the difference is this isn't luch or breakfast, but your health. People should be on top of it and know what's going on. If you're not, then youre not making it a priority in your life and therefore deserve some blame.

 

The Magic weren't going by the doctors orders unlike the Rockets.

 

similar to the way the Rockets mismanaged Mcgrady's knee