Rashard Lewis may need knee surgery, not having it yet

Here’s a question: when the club has had a glaringly obvious problem with receiving good medical advice – or heeding good medical advice, whatever the case may be – why in the world has a sports journalist NOT done an investigation of what is going on? Real long-term Bullets fans have been throwing their hands in the air about this problem since the 90s. No professional writer at the WashPost Sports section ever mentions it, or anyone else other than the fans. One more reason why we’ve long been considered a joke team that no good player wants to play for — come here, and the resident Quack will give you some snake oil to rub on your snapped ligaments, before your elbow falls off.

I couldn’t agree more, Prada. Our season is in the toilet…… the young guys can benefit from some experience, we can assess their potentials, and we’ll save valuable wear/tear on a guy who is getting older. (He did not come cheap either). Bag it, Rashard. After we get that road win.

A player says he can go and he goes. The man is getting 21 million dollars. He can get a new knee. Its his call as to whether he can play or not. These guys are elite athletes. They are not idiots about their own bodies. They have great pain toleration (unless you are Javale Mcgee) and they are going to go until they cannot and they are making huge amounts of money doing it. These minutes are Lewis’ call. Saunders is not paid to look after the health of players. he is paid to coach them. If a guy like Lewis says I can play, he is going to play. He can sit when he wants to. He can come out of the game when he wants to and that is the way it is.

How do you justify paying someone 21 million dollars and telling the owner of a team that I don’t think he should play because his knee hurts? When there are so many endorsements and there is so many people whose investments ride upon you, you play through pain. There is a lot money out there and it is all dependent upon you performing. So, as cruel as it all is, you just don’t have much choice at this point. A little knee pain is a lot of money, not only to you, but to many people and so you play. You are not left with much choice. Lewis was not left with much choice, Saunders was not left with much choice. There is a lot of money and a lot of greed and it keeps everyone happy. So, as an athlete, you go for as long as you can possibly go. Call it the whole system of Capitalism. I never believed in this whole system any way.