No. 1 pick Griffin to have season-ending surgery
LOS ANGELES (AP)—Blake Griffin’sfirst season with the Los Angeles Clippers is over before it even began.
Griffin will have surgery on his broken left kneecap, keeping the No. 1 draft pick out for at least more four months, the eternally star-crossed Clippers announced in a statement Wednesday.
Griffin hasn’t played a regular-season game yet for the Clippers after injuring his kneecap in their final preseason game Oct. 23, wincing in pain as he landed after a dunk. After resting the stress fracture for several weeks, the former Oklahoma star recently increased his workload in rehabilitation by running on a treadmill.
But the power forward recently developed pain in his knee while jumping in a pool, and an examination Tuesday revealed his recovery wasn’t progressing properly.
“It’s a little disappointing, because he brings so much to the table,” Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy said on a conference call. “As a group, we’re coming together better all the time, and adding that talent to our lineup was something we were looking forward to.”
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