Martin needs another knee surgery
By ARNIE STAPLETON, AP Sports Writer
November 9, 2006
DENVER (AP) -- At the morning shootaround, Kenyon Martin talked about how good it felt to feel good again. By nightfall, he was down in the dumps, will be sidelined indefinitely and is facing yet another knee surgery.
An MRI on Wednesday night revealed loose cartilage that needs to be removed through arthroscopy.
"I won't be out the entire season, but I have no idea at this point," the Denver Nuggets forward said about a timetable for his return.
At the Nuggets' shootaround, Martin talked about how good his surgically repaired left knee felt and how he was getting back to full strength for the first time since undergoing microfracture surgery 18 months ago.
He was taped up and ready to play against the New York Knicks when a team doctor went into the locker room and sent him for tests on his swollen right knee.
"Right now I'm at a loss for words, you know what I'm saying? I worked my butt off in training camp. For this to happen now, I'm down in the dumps," Martin told The Associated Press. "But I've dealt with worse, so I've just got to fight through it."