K-Mart Has Knee Surgery

andersen did it a month after, but whatever.
talk about a major setback

Do we know that he did in fact wait until now for surgery, or are we only hearing about it now?

It’s carry over from the B.S. just before the playoffs. KMart was far more injured than they let on; he came back though still injured and didn’t accomplish anything other than delaying his surgery and now screwing up 2 seasons rather than 1.

I was thinking if the injury was as serious as was suspected, rather than trading KMart the Nugs could keep him, get the injury trade exception (valued at 1/2 of KMart’s salary) and then package it in a big deal. But that means Stans and the Dreamers get off their asses and actually do something rather that pocketing the insurance like they did with KMart’s micro-fracture surgery.

But depending on the surgery and time out, I don’t know if the Nugs can get an injury TE.

Get the Injury Trade Exception & Insurance for KMart based on injury and chronic history of long term injuries. That will mean KMart is out all next year. But I don’t care, he will be worthless AND unavailable next year. Take hime out of the equation. He has his money that was soooo important to him so he can shut up.

With the Injury TE, you can use 1/2 of KMart’s money($8.2m) and acquire a player.

The Rockets want to be FA players.

Make the following deal:

Luis Scola sign/trade – for Hunter’s TE
Jordan Hill for – the rights to Kleiza (yes you can trade the rights; refer to Axel Harvelle’s trade last offseason for a Euro contracted player getting while still overseas)
Sean Battier for KMart’s Injury TE
Trevor Ariza for JR.

The Nugs acquire 3proven players & a young big and cut $4mm from their cap. Houston cuts $12m from their cap, possibly more if they chose to buyout JR.

Another scenario is to take the $3.7TE & KMart and maybe a future 1st & trade to Memphis for Gasol & Randolph. It would cost Memphis Gasol but they’d be able to get Randolph off the books immediately (which they want to do). I’d be willing to take Randolph’s contract for 1 year for the chance to secure Gasol long term.

You can also trade Randolph’s expiring contract to get a player such as Lee in a package.

These deals also do not touch the MLE or Bi Annual Exception in case those need to be used.

I was worried about David Aldridge reporting that K-Mart may not play at all next year. Now I give it a more than 50% chance of being true. If he is able to play next year it’s probably only going to hurt his trade value.

The injury insurance doesn’t kick in until the player misses something like 40+ consecutive games. That’s why it’s so costly for the Nugs as it kicks Kenyon’s trade value down to near zero. I guess it’s a little bit clearer why it wasn’t reported that he needed surgery or if he really tore his patella tendon or not. This is the 4th or 5th major major knee surgery for Kenyon I wouldn’t be surprised if he collects the $16.5 million next year and decides to retire.

The Nuggets knew about this before anyone else. Considering Birdman had surgery too and Melo hasn’t signed an extension, HOW THE FUCK do you sit out the draft ????

Kmart recovering from surgery….Birdman recovering from surgery…Nene…did he have surgery too? Well then…

the next best power forward option on the nuggets is…..MELO. joey graham will see major minutes…..denver just has to sign him. without kmart petro should lock up a roster spot. would kleiza return to start at power forward?

My guess is Kmart is traded at the deadline when some teams will have given up on the season and will be looking to unload contracts. The problem is the Nuggs could be really hurting at midseason with Kmart out, Bird hurting and Nene likely dealing with something, unless the acquire a solid big or two (or three) this summer.. All this leads to Melo considering a move to the Knicks next season. How about a 3-2 – - Nene and JR for Maxiel, Wilcox and Rip?