Sports writers know they will often be given only a small percentage of the facts surrounding player injuries and recovery. Knowing this, when I wrote about Kyrie Irving's initial "minimally invasive" surgery in a March 23, 2018 CelticsLife article, I assumed that surgery would be to remove the screws that had been implanted in 2015. This is what I wrote:
There is a good chance that the planned surgery involves removal of the screws from the area of the knee, and from what I have learned, this will leave small holes in the bones where the screws had originally been embedded.