Sue Bird considera operarse de la cadera

Desde ayer que podemos leer artículos y noticias sobre una lesión en la cadera de Sue Bird. 

Bird explicó que originalmente se la diagnosticó de la cadera izquierda el noviembre pasado con un pequeño desgarro. Los médicos le dijeron que no podía hacer nada al respecto sin operarse, lo que no era recomendado. Así que Sue ha jugado toda la temporada, siendo la mejor de toda su carrera con la lesión. Ha promediado 14,7 puntos y 4,9 asistencias, llegando a su máxima anotación con 22 puntos. Además Sue ha sido titular en los 34 partidos, no lo había hecho desde 2006.

"As most players mature, they figure out ways they can manage and stay on top of their game," dijo el enrtenador de las Storm Brian Agler. "A lot of times you don't notice it in their play, but the ones that are around her day-to-day know she was dealing with some of this. But she never complains and she comes to practice every day. If she's out, it's because you can tell in her gait or she may mention, 'I'm not feeling quite right,' but it's not something that she brings in front of everybody. That's not Sue."

"The hardest part was on defense - moving laterally," dijo Bird. "I can't really stretch my legs out. As an athlete, you definitely compensate and find ways to avoid what hurts. I was able to do that. Did I have some discomfort, some pain? Yeah, but it didn't hinder me in any real way."

Esta lesion de cadera es la misma por la cual Lauren Jackson se operó en Junio, pero ambas se han producido de diferente manera. La lesión de Sue ha sido producida por el desgaste físico, la de Jackson era un problema con los huesos de la zona.

"It was something that I had probably been playing with for a long time and didn't even realize," dijo Bird. "It's really only an issue when it becomes symptomatic. When it's not, you're fine. There wasn't this (urgency) to get it done."

Aun y no ser tan grave y sabiendo que Sue puede aguantar las molestias que aporta, nunca se curará si no es con cirugía. Sue además siente molestias en el costado derecho de la misma zona, ayer se hizo las pruebas pertinentes para que los doctores evaluasen la situación.

"When you have opportunities to take care of things, you have to do it - especially as a women's basketball player, the way our schedules are," dijo Bird. "Obviously, I'm getting older. You don't want things to linger and you don't want it to cause something worse down the road. That's where I'm at with it."

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