Brandon Roy, who is the All-Star guard for the Portland Trail Blazers has said that he will look to retire because he's having some ongoing issues with his knees, according to a sports website that's familiar with the story. The player is a veteran team member of five years and helped to improve the team's reputation after it had been known as the "Jail Blazers" for quite a while. Unfortunately Roy has been experiencing pain in his knees for the past two seasons and says that he no longer has cartilage between the knee bones in his legs.

Some considerations when purchasing a wakeboard should generally be regarding length and generally speaking it's a good idea to look into a longer board if the buyer has more experience in wakeboarding and using wakeboard racks. Each person who decides to get into wakeboarding might progress at different rates as far as skill is concerned, but for beginners a longer board that's up to 150 centimeters is generally the best type of board to use whereas a more advanced rider might consider a board as short as 120 centimeters. Longer boards provide additional stability for beginning users.