• October 26, 2009 10:00 am  |  18 Comments

    More Injury Woes for Blake Griffin


    Blake Griffin re-injured his left knee, and may end up sitting out for the regular season opener tomorrow night: “He hurt his left knee on the play and his status for the season opener against the Lakers on Tuesday is in question, considered day to day…What is ominous for the Clippers is that this was the same knee Griffin hurt several days before training camp. He winced after coming down on the dunk, which came with just under four minutes left in the quarter, and immediately appeared to be in pain but kept on playing. Griffin had treatment on the knee after practice and will be examined by the team doctor Monday.”

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    • Jacqueline Mitchell Posted: Oct.26 at 10:05 am
      Oh man,I certainly hope the Clippers season isn’t going up in smoke.

    • YKnot Posted: Oct.26 at 10:11 am
      Sounds about right for the Clips history with top draft picks. Either hurt, or a bust!

    • tom Posted: Oct.26 at 10:25 am
      Agree completely with Yknot, once you become a clipper, your career is in jeopardy. It’s a curse that just cannot be explained.

    • niQ Posted: Oct.26 at 10:27 am
      I guess Camby rubbed off on him.

    • NUPE Posted: Oct.26 at 10:28 am
      Hope they treat this as a long-term investment and sit him as long as he needs. I’m sure they want him playing ASAP, I’m sure he wants to be in there too. However, it may be worth sitting him an entire week or two (or however long it really takes to heal)versus just a few days. If this becomes a chronic problem, he’ll miss a lot more baskeball over the next year and/or cut his career short. Not worth the risk. He may be the favorite to win ROTY, but they need to put that out of the thought process.

    • Hangtime Hec Posted: Oct.26 at 11:13 am
      What Nupe Said. And its not like there lacking players either. I personally think that the clippers are one of the deepest teams in the whole L. The clips can manage.

    • underdog Posted: Oct.26 at 11:30 am
      Yet another reason to fire Dunleavy asap.

    • 360vue Posted: Oct.26 at 12:00 pm
      ditto NUPE. rest the kid fully, hes a strong kid I reckon they’re pushing him too hard too fast in their giddiness at having top pick

    • Rog123 Posted: Oct.26 at 1:15 pm
      Talent wise, the clips are up there with all the best team

    • onlyclipfanonslam Posted: Oct.26 at 1:38 pm
      He wasn’t limping at all while he was in the game after the dunk. He wasn’t limping walking around after the game. Three letter have to be used for me, or any Clipper fan, or any Blake Griffin fan to get worried about: MRI. Until I see those letters in an injury report with Blake, then I’ll take it as a little bump and bruise. Remember, this guy got beat up every single game in college.

    • Bo Diddly Posted: Oct.26 at 2:18 pm
      I hate to say it but maybe he needs to calm down a bit with the big dunks. The dude goes in with reckless abandon. Too reckless?

    • LA Huey Posted: Oct.26 at 2:54 pm
      Please trade him away from your curse, Clippers! He seems like a cool dude and I hate seeing nice guys not live up to their potential because of circumstances out of their control.

    • Big D Posted: Oct.26 at 3:47 pm
      The only thing stopping him from being an incredible NBA player will be self-inflicted injuries. He is so crazy around the hoop. Reminds me of a stronger Grant Hill around the hoop, but in the same way Grant Hills recklessness cost him many games on the IR.

    • Rog123 Posted: Oct.26 at 6:03 pm
      Iverson was always hurt and banged up, but he somehow managed to avoid any career threatening injuries. So I don’t think blake should change anything about his game. But I would like to see him swap jerseys with Boozer

    • Jumpman-post Posted: Oct.26 at 7:03 pm
      BG got young knees and just like Rog said iverson been banged up plenty and he kind of go hard
      -but AI is old

    • Jrooks Posted: Oct.26 at 11:12 pm
      Why are nba players geting hurt so much

    • SAB Posted: Oct.27 at 2:41 am
      the report on nba.com seems much worse… broken kneecap… “up to 6 weeks”… shame

    • Damir Posted: Oct.27 at 4:50 am
      it’s always the same with the clips..blabla broken kneeecap, blabla torn acl..blabla cursed franchise..feel sorry for blake..get well soon my man..

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