Blake Griffin to miss Olympics because of knee injury - Basketball Forum : Professional and College Basketball Forums

**Cris** · 07-12-2012, 08:15 PM

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Blake Griffin has been diagnosed with a meniscus tear in his left knee and will have arthroscopic surgery probably early next week, according to NBA executives who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

Griffin will not be playing for the USA Olympic team in London later this month, but he will be available for Clippers training camp that starts in October.

Griffin is expected to be out about eight weeks recovering from the injury and should be fine and ready to play when the season starts, the executive said.

Dr. Neal ElAttrache of the Kerlan–Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic will perform the surgery.

It’s the same knee that Griffin sprained in Game 5 of the Western Conference first-round playoff series against the Memphis Grizzlies and the same knee ElAttrache performed season-ending surgery on for a stress fracture on his left kneecap during the 2009-10 season.

But this injury is unrelated to the surgery Griffin had during his rookie year, the executives said.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sports...,2412273.story

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TheAnswer · 07-12-2012, 10:14 PM

Blake Griffin’s Olympics-ending meniscus tear came as a result of John Wall stepping on his foot.

There's a video on this site: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympi...6956--oly.html
I'm a dumbass who doesn't know how to post youtube vids so if anyone wants to do that.

**R-Star** · 07-12-2012, 10:16 PM

Well that ****ing sucks.

jokeaward · 07-16-2012, 10:14 AM

Prepare for the Browbeating!

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TheAnswer Genius Level Talent Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 1,560 Rep Power: 1995994	Re: Blake Griffin to miss Olympics because of knee injury Blake Griffin’s Olympics-ending meniscus tear came as a result of John Wall stepping on his foot. There's a video on this site: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympi...6956--oly.html I'm a dumbass who doesn't know how to post youtube vids so if anyone wants to do that.

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