Detached Retina? Yikes!

Friday it was announced that Amare Stoudamire had surgery for a detached retina. It is excepted that he will miss 8 weeks, which essentially is the remainder of the regular season.

As the Suns were in the midst of a mini-revival after firing Terry Porter, this look like a serious blow to the Suns playoff hopes. While the Suns did well during the year that Amare was rehabbing after microfracture surgery, the team has been almost completely renovated since then as the only players still around from that team are Steve Nash and Leandro Barbosa. Shaq will need to do some heavy lifting again as the only remaining "bigs" on the roster are the rookie Robin Lopez and Loius Amundson who I had never heard of until Zach Randolph punched in him the face last week. They may have to play a style of ball similar to the 1990-91 Denver Nuggets, although with better defense.