Brandon Roy's Knees

After watching Portland fall again to the Mavs with Brandon Roy only getting 8 minutes of playing time and admitting to crying on the bench, you have to feel bad for the guy. You can't blame Blazers coach Nate McMillan either as Roy shot 1 for 7 in Game 1, which he finished with 2 points and 4 fouls. He has not been productive at all since his last surgery (shooting .401 while playing 20 minutes a game).

Roy's future will probably be 15-20 mpg off the bench if he is lucky. In a couple of years most people will forget about Brandon Roy, how good he was, and how good he could of been. His first year in the league he was almost the unanimous rookie of the year while averaging 16.8 points, 4.4 rebounds, and 4 assists a game. Portland immediately traded Zach Randolph that off-season and opened up the door for Roy to take over as the team's leader. He responded by being an All Star the next 3 years and taking the team to the playoffs in 2 of those years (the last time they had previously made the playoffs was '03), all while averaging 21 points and almost 5 rebounds and 5 assists per game. When Kobe Bryant was asked who was the toughest person to cover in the Western Conference after the 2010 NBA season, he responded by saying, "Roy 365 days, seven days a week. Roy has no weaknesses in his game." Ron Artest had shared the same response when asked that same question a year earlier, after Roy became the first player to ever drop 40 points on Artest. With no injuries, Roy is well on his way to a Hall of Fame career.

Roy now has no meniscus in either knee and no real hopes off getting back close to 100%. All surgeries now are just to give him temporarily relief and offer no long term solution. The only good thing for him is that he will probably always have buddy Greg Oden on the bench, with whom can now relate.