Memo Starts New Season Preparations

Mehmet Okur, the center for the Utah Jazz has started his preparations for the upcoming season. Feeling no after affects of his hamstring injury, Memo took the doctors advice and rested his injury until full recovery. The one time All-Star center was not able to dress in the first three games of the Los Angeles series, and forced himself to try and play in the final two games. Memo said that after talking to his doctor, "He felt it was best to rest it until full recovery. I have been watching what I eat, doing a some walking but being carefull so not to strain it before full recovery.".

Memo invited his personel trainer Goran Zufar to start his training for the new season. The practices started with some easy jogging, low intesnity lower body exercises, a lot of stretching.  There was a lot of repetition involved with low intensity .

Memo stated that "We will increse the intensity of the practices in time. Everybody that I spoke with who has had experience with a severe hamstring injury said that it is an injury that takes time to heal properly. They said that also it could be sneaky in that it can fool you sometimes. We are being very carefull and  not taking any risks.".

"My goal is to be in the best shape of my career when the pre-season camp starts. We had a tough season, an unlucky season with so many different injuries and problems. However a couple of years ago we had a another season filled with injuries and then we came back to go all the way to the Western Finals. Right now I feel good. No pain, no pulling feeling, nothing out of the ordinary. I have just started and I have a long summer ahead of me to get to the position of where I will be fully ready." added Memo.