“This is him,” Donovan said. “The doctors feel that the most important thing is his health and everybody feeling comfortable with him. Obviously, the group of people that were involved, they’re the best in the world, so everybody is very comfortable. The lubricant, the things that he had placed into his knee, was something to try and give him some relief from what he was experiencing.
“The biggest thing, and what people need to understand about this, too, is he is not dealing with pain. That’s not the issue. The issue is sometimes he gets some swelling, some stiffness and tightness in there, and he doesn’t feel like he has all the way his mobility, flexibility, explosiveness, that kind of stuff. Today, he feels much, much better than he did before he did this. Now, the biggest question is going to be: Can he feel this way until the end of the year?”
