There seems something off about the Deuce McBride injury and bringing in Alvarado is great insurance just in case.

I did say that.

Well, now we know the just in case because James Edwards, the third, who covers the Knicks for the Athletic and Fred Katz, who covers the NBA for the athletic, is now reporting that Deuce McBride will undergo surgery for a core muscle injury and maybe out until the playoffs.

Wow.

Here's what, and by way, things come full circle in a lot of ways because we're talking about the Jets and how they've earned this reputation of being dysfunctional.

But once you win, you know, it's talked about so differently.

Right. The Knicks are such a winning franchise that we're not going to freak out when we

remind you that Deuce McBride has been out the last few games for, quote, left ankle injury

management. So this surgery comes out of nowhere just in terms of their injury report. Right. So the Knicks are first we've heard of it. Of course. Even though I did, I do feel like he did get a knock because that's the best way to describe it a month or so ago. Right. And we just, you didn't think of it as anything. Well, we, talking about it in his core area. Sure. And it was just like, yeah, whatever, it's nothing. Well, because I think we- And he played through it. We take into account what an injury report says. Right. And so when they tell you, hey, it's left ankle injury management, and then it's a left-angle injury, because I think Coach Brown recently upgraded it to, yeah, there's an ankle issue. Okay.

To now it be coming, and you tell me you know about the human body more than I do, now it becomes a core muscle injury?

Yeah, you know that whole ankle bones connected to the thigh bone, the die bone, that thing?

Yeah, it doesn't really feel connected.

I'm just telling you.

I'm sure in some capacity it is, but guy tears his ACL, it tears his Achilles after having an ACL injury. It feels related, right? You're favoring your leg and then all of a sudden you put too much stress and Daniel Jones, you tear your ACL. And it feels like you could see that coming. This is not one of those you could see that coming.

But it also, I think, is informative of all the other sports except for the NFL.

In the NFL, you have to say exactly what it is.

Right.

Now they push you to make it clear.

And sometimes you're getting on the injury report just as a competitive advantage that make people think that you're hurt when you're really not that it's it's different how teams manipulate it but you can't just obscure and omit an injury because this feels like

it's come just came out of nowhere yeah I did some research while you were talking.

I do, not that I'm ignoring you, but I wanted to come back with exactly what I found. Yeah. Which is, how much time is he truly going to miss? Because we really can't trust. That's core muscle surgery. He'll be back. We don't know. And the Knicks aren't going to tell us. You don't know what core muscle surgery is. It could be a hernia, it could be a strained, whatever.

It could be anything.

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