12-14-2003, 03:26 AM
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Borchardt hit with injury again
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With tears filling his eyes, hard-luck Curtis Borchardt met the news media in the Jazz locker room Friday night and described how he broke his right wrist during Sacramento's 100-93 win at the Delta Center.
It was the third major injury of his two-year NBA career. He will be sidelined six weeks.
Hence, the emotion.
With five minutes left in the first half, Borchardt went to the basket, collided with Sacramento's Gerald Wallace and crashed to the floor. On a bang-bang play, he was called for an offensive foul.
Not that he noticed.
"I just drove to the basket and a guy kind of undercut me," Borchardt said. "I guess the guy took a charge. I don't know what they called, actually. But I got parallel to the ground and broke my fall with my hand."
Borchardt jumped to his feet, but quickly walked to the bench and into the locker room.
"I knew something was wrong right away," he said.
Asked if he could describe the frustration of being injured again, Borchardt said, "I just have to keep working hard and keep myself in shape and be ready to come back as soon as possible. . . . That's all I can do."
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