Chris Mihm Healthy Again

Lakers center Chris Mihm is healthy after three surgeries and seemingly endless problems with his right ankle. Mihm, who used to be the Lakers’ starting center, is finally fit and “playing above the rim” after the years of frustrating health issues. Of his recently repaired right ankle, Mihm told the L.A. Times, “I’ve been running around with a smile on me face. That hasn’t happened in two years.” (The 29-year-old Laker missed the 2006-07 season and played in only 82 games in the last three seasons).

Mihm’s surgeries include  two on his right ankle (one reconstructive) and one on his right heel and the Lakers center also underwent three weekly sonar-wave treatments last season (with no end to his pain). After removing a screw from his right ankle in February, Mihm returned home to Austin, Texas over the summer and worked out at his alma mater (Texas). At the conclusion of the off-season, Mihm found himself at his healthiest in years, and finally able to play above the rim again. He is in the last year of a contract worth $2.5 million and coach Phil Jackson told the Times its “hard to determine” what Mihm’s role will be in the 2008-09 season.

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