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TheGoldenBoy said:

se7en7thre3 said:

The Bulls have not yet announced anything about D Rose being out for the year.  A sports doc on ESPN mentioned that if a repaired meniscus gets reinjured, 95% of the time they just snip off the injured part, rather than doing another full repair.  That means  its a minor surgery and Rose should return to the court in 6 wks.  

It's Derrick Rose; the Bulls will obviously shut him down. He shut it down last year when he had the same injury even though he probably could have played in the playoffs. There's no reason to believe they'll handle it differently this time.

Last year he opted for the full repair of the meniscus, which entails a long rehab and recovery.  This time, as I paraphrased the Dr. on ESPN, it is very unlikely they can go that route once there is a reinjury, so they will snip a portion of the meniscus and Rose can return in several weeks.  

As for the Bulls and Rose being "extra careful", this is not as serious as the ACL or waiting for the meniscus tissue to heal completely, its a totally different case.  In fact, the injury is so minor, he has been playing on it for a while and don't know when he (partially) tore it.  Rosewill feel better actually than he has all yr. We'll find out soon enough though.