So What Exactly Occurred During Javon Walker's Mysterious Knee Surgery?

One can only assume that the offseason knee surgery Raiders wide receiver Javon Walker had -- in secret, without telling the team -- was performed in a hospital, by a licensed surgeon.

Walker's comments to reporters at Oakland's training camp session on Friday invite some curiosity, though.

"It's something new," Walker said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's going to be something amazing that's going to benefit and help a lot of athletes."

But Walker refused to provide any details beyond that -- and took the mystery to a further extreme when he was asked if the surgery happened in the United States.

"I don't know where it was done," Walker responded. "I'm clueless."

So, with that information, I can only assume the surgery went something like this:



And Walker's assertion that "when they let me loose, it's on after that" does nothing to convince me otherwise.

Walker restructured a five-year, $55 million contract down to a five-year, $16.4 million contract in the offseason, a massive pay cut that became warranted after he caught just 15 passes last season. He also missed eight games last year when he required ankle surgery -- a procedure that the Raiders were aware of and, to the best of our knowledge, did take place within U.S. borders.

He'll miss a couple more weeks in the preseason, thanks to the mysterious and now-fascinating knee surgery, but promised more details when he gets back on the field.

I, for one, can't wait.