From the Seattle Times:

This whole 'not being honest about how many times doctors sliced open your knee' isn't very awesome, Spencer. For what it's worth, The Bee's Sam Amick kind-of debunks the Seattle report, sort of.UPDATE: Amick has updated his blog post, further debunking that Shawes has kept anything from anyone. "[A] Seattle Post-Intelligencer story from Feb. 7, 2004, states Hawes had "three surgeries" that year but makes no mention of microfracture, chances are, because the procedure and the dreaded M-word hadn't become part of the sports culture just yet." Hawes hasn't hidden anything. But it's still distressing… although user jjs, a brand new face around here, claims to have spoken with Hawes this morning. And they say everything is fine now. Barrel of salt until we can surmise how much truth jjs speaks.