Carmelo Anthony had torn labrum and rotator cuff, decided against surgery

Carmelo Anthony was really banged up at the end of the 2012-13 season.

The New York Knicks forward shed some light on just how bad it was on Saturday, revealing to Newsday that he had to make a decision on whether or not to have surgery:

"To go from having a torn rotator cuff, a torn labrum to not needing surgery or taking a risk and a chance of not getting surgery and letting it heal on its own, I took a huge risk in doing that. That just meant I had to put more time in the offseason to get that right."
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"I had a feeling it was torn or something like that from when it first happened. Once it happened, I knew something was wrong with it. It was a labrum, rotator cuff. There was all type of stuff going on in there. It was messed up."
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"All the doctors, we sat down and I just asked them what's the chances if I don't get the surgery, what's going to happen if I do get surgery? If I'd gotten surgery, I probably wouldn't have been able to start the season. I would have been out four to five months due to the severity of the tear that I had. I decided not to do it."

A torn labrum AND a torn rotator cuff, you say?

Opting against surgery during the season can be looked at as commendable, fighting through discomfort and pain to help the team. But foregoing surgeries that he would have had over five months to recover from seems shortsighted.

Seems there's more value in no 'Melo for a little while to have a 100 percent 'Melo later on, rather than a sub-100 percent 'Melo all year long.

What do you think, New York-area basketball bloggers?