Jorge Garbajosa was finally back with the Raptors after undergoing surgery last month. His surgery was deemed a success, and physically he was feeling OK.

"I'm sleeping good, I'm having no pain, I'm doing normal things," Garbajosa said before the Raptors took the floor against the Detroit Pistons at the Air Canada Centre. "But I cannot do the thing that I like the most, playing basketball."

Garbajosa had surgery in Baltimore on Dec. 11 on his left leg in a procedure he explained was to strengthen his fibula — one of the bones in the lower leg. He originally injured the tibia — the other bone in the lower leg — in a gruesome crash last March that ended his rookie season as a Raptor.

He played the first seven games of the season but was placed on injured reserve after an MRI on his leg in November showed something abnormal.

"They put some screws inside; I don't know how many," Garbajosa said of his operation.

"They told me the surgery was pretty successful, and we're just waiting until the fibula is fixed."

Via Globe And Mail

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