Blake Griffin out 6 Weeks

[jsandiego]

Just saw a tweet from Mark Stein re-tweeting Lisa Salters. Griffin has a stress fracture: http://www.nba.com/clippers/news/breakingnews091026.html

[BillMc]

Welcome to Clippers World Blake.

[EricB]

Just saw this as well.

Baron Davis just bought some new Fusions to use on his wrists.

[Blackjack]

Damn, have the Clippers not condemned enough talented players careers?

[completely deck]

Ouch

[kbrury]

so who do you think will get ROY now? Im thinking Tyreke Evans or maybe Brandon Jennings.

[TimDunkem]

That sucks.

[NRHector]

Damn, someone did a serious vodoo job on them:wow

[Manu20]

I just drafted him on my fantasy league!:depressed

[DJB]

Officially the most cursed franchise in the history of sports.

[Trainwreck2100]

omg good thing the spurs didn't draft him?

[Dex]

http://robdamanii.com/macros/curses.jpg

[peskypesky]

i don't believe it.

[Trainwreck2100]

i don't believe it.

the link's on the clippers website

[Riverwalkman]

It's not because Clippers is cursed, I think Blake Griffin was trying to play too hard in preseason( I was impressed by the amazing tomahawk), Clippers have to take responsibility for his injury. By contrast, DeJuan Blair averaged only 15+ mins.

[thispego]

damn. that dunk was sick though

[peskypesky]

the link's on the clippers website

damn.

first oden.

now griffin.

thank god we drafted a guy who has already learned how to play without knees.

[tp2021]

^Win.

[Dex]

6DPmb4JCcok

Play of the injury.

Dude dunked it too damn hard. :nope

[peskypesky]

ummm....now i see why pop is against dunking.

[spurtilldeath]

I hope and wish he gets well soon and has a great career.

[Duncan2177]

so who do you think will get ROY now? Im thinking Tyreke Evans or maybe Brandon Jennings.

Blair:hat

[DJB]

Blair ROY, no questions.

[DespЏrado]

Blair is going to win the ROY, and might contend for 6th man of the year.

(hope Griffin recovers back to full health even if it takes him a while.)

[Quiet Strength]

Damn that sucks.

[TimDunkem]

6DPmb4JCcok

Play of the injury.

Dude dunked it too damn hard. :nope
lol I was just about to post that. He's even holding his knee. Poor Blake. :bang

[deL!]

damn.

first oden.

now griffin.

thank god we drafted a guy who has already learned how to play without knees.


aha a'men

[Riverwalkman]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090624&sportCat=nba

Open letter to Blake Griffin

the article is so long...

[crc21209]

Injured on a dunk..WOW. :lol

[manu_maniac]

Isn't this ironic. No one picked up on Blair because of his knees, and now the #1 pick won't even be starting the season due to a knee injury.

[AussieFanKurt]

Isn't this ironic. No one picked up on Blair because of his knees, and now the #1 pick won't even be starting the season due to a knee injury.

very good point

Blair 4 ROY

[EricB]

he might be snake bit.

No hard impact at all when he landed.

Must have cracked on the way up.

Lucky it isn't dislocated ala McDyess

[Stump]

This certainly opens up the ROY race, but Blair still isn't in it. Not enough minutes.

If it's not Griffin, it's going to be some score-first guard on a garbage team.

[angelbelow]

Damn that sucks.

[Obstructed_View]

he might be snake bit.

No hard impact at all when he landed.

Must have cracked on the way up.

Lucky it isn't dislocated ala McDyess

If it was that monster dunk they showed on ESPN, he did land funny and immediately went down and checked his knee. Upon seeing it, I wondered why nobody else seemed to comment on it.

[AussieFanKurt]

Theres a game on tomorrow Australia time of Clippers, I was looking forward to seeing him play

[deL!]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090624&sportCat=nba

Open letter to Blake Griffin

the article is so long...

lmao that was hilarious :lmao

[Chieflion]

The Clippers are officially one of my new targets to hate this season.

[Kamnik]

I feel bad for the guy :( And all those 7 Clipper fans out there in the world...

[bluebellmaniac]

Wow, how many promising careers have seen the cursed black hole that is the Clippers? Griffin will be back and stronger than ever, but not a good start on a team known for such injuries...

[Drachen]

I hope and wish he gets well soon and has a great career.

Obviously you have not read Bill Simmons' complete history of the Clippers that he wrote earlier this summer. You start out laughing, then you are just mouthing the word "wow" every few sentences... Then you almost want to shed a tear for them. It's BAD!

[myhc]

That Simmons article is incredible. In his top 5 no doubt.

[Drachen]

That Simmons article is incredible. In his top 5 no doubt.
It's right below that one about his dog.

[CGD]

Very disappointed. I expected 5 pages on Blair for ROY talk already. What's going on?

[peskypesky]

isn't this ironic. No one picked up on blair because of his knees, and now the #1 pick won't even be starting the season due to a knee injury.

qft

[Samr]

That article is erie. I can't imagine how much research work he put into that thing. And that was written when, back in June? Wow. Bet Simmons feels pretty good right about now.

[lennyalderette]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090624&sportCat=nba

Open letter to Blake Griffin

the article is so long...



long but man is that scary.......wow

[anakha]

Simmons must be the smuggest man in the world right now.

[hater]

damn! dude was looking like a bigger faster stronger lebron!

yeah who could forget the other horrible injury to Shaun Livingston. fucking Clippers should be banned

[Samr]

Watch closely when he lands in that video. You can see his knee (left one?) pause a bit. It just kind of jerks there for a quick second, then he turns around. That may be just the way he landed, but that could be the point of injury too.

Feel bad for Blake, but as for the Clippers, that's pretty much what they get.

[PDXSpursFan]

Griffin = Bust (isn't it that what people said when Oden got injured :rolleyes)

[EmptyMan]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090624&sportCat=nba

Open letter to Blake Griffin

the article is so long...

LMAO! That was great.


Griffin is fcuked.

[Jose Ole]

Fuck My (Fantasy) Life...

[SpursFanFirst]

thank god we drafted a guy who has already learned how to play without knees.

:lol

[mVp]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090624&sportCat=nba

Open letter to Blake Griffin

the article is so long...

Wow... just... wow :wow

[hater]

Griffin = Bust (isn't it that what people said when Oden got injured :rolleyes)

Oden didn't ever play half as good as Griffin. (NBA)

[ElNono]

Griffin = Bust (isn't it that what people said when Oden got injured :rolleyes)

The jury is still out on Oden... IMHO.

Now, Griffin is on a whole different level... the little we saw in the preseason showed his game is NBA ready...

[phxspurfan]

I just drafted him on my fantasy league!:depressed

Same! :[

[phxspurfan]

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No more posterization for awhile... :depressed

[Spurs Brazil]

DeJuan Blair was supposed to be the one with bad knees
By Buck Harvey on Oct 27, 09 10:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) Save & Share Yahoo! BuzzYahoo! Newsvine del.icio.us Facebook Google Reddit Fark
But people forget. Blake Griffin suffered injuries to both knees in his freshman season with Oklahoma.

Five minutes into a game at Kansas in January of 2008, Griffin sprained a knee ligament and doctors thought he could be out four weeks. He missed only one game. Then he partially tore a ligament in his other knee later in the season against Texas A&M. Again, he missed only one game.

Blake called these injuries "blessings" at the time. OU won both games without him and developed some depth.

Maybe the Clippers can draw on this. The kid has been hurt before, but he's also come back quickly before.


Still, scouts noticed. When the Los Angeles Times put together a mock draft in the spring of 2008, when there was still a chance Griffin could leave the Sooners after only one season, the opinion was this: "Young bull but knees are a question."

Griffin worked out with a San Francisco trainer in the summer of 2008 to increase knee strength. He then proved to be durable his sophomore season, and no NBA general manager would have passed on Griffin last June because of heath concerns.

But for anyone looking, the latest news wasn't just about bad luck. There were signs.

For a tome on the curse of the Clippers, click here.

http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/buckharvey/2009/10/and-blair-was-the-one-with-the.html#more

[EricB]

I hope not alot of people start talking crap about "DeJuan Blair has better knees blah blah blah"

Don't tempt freaking fate people.

Don't yank on Karma's cape either.

[peskypesky]

The jury is still out on Oden... IMHO.

really??? :lmao

[Bruno]

If Clippers are out of the playoffs race at the trade deadline, they will likely trade Camby. Griffin being out for an extended period won't surely help them to reach the playoffs.

Spurs tried to get Camby at the deadline. I don't know it they are still interested and if they will be the team with the most attractive package but this injury puts Camby a little more on the trading block.

[TIMMYD!]

If Clippers are out of the playoffs race at the trade deadline, they will likely trade Camby. Griffin being out for an extended period won't surely help them to reach the playoffs.

Spurs tried to get Camby at the deadline. I don't know it they are still interested and if they will be the team with the most attractive package but this injury puts Camby a little more on the trading block.

We'd be unstoppable with Camby but managing minutes would be tough for Pop and The Beast plays less.

[phxspurfan]

We'd be unstoppable with Camby but managing minutes would be tough for Pop and The Beast plays less.

Pop could play the rookie card on that one and say Blair 'needs to refine his game' or 'learn the playbook/team defense concept' while giving his minutes to Camby...

[NFGIII]

Really sucks for Blake but that article by Simmins was just hilarious. And a little sad, too. I always felt that Baylor was a out of his element as a GM. One of those examples where being a great player (McHale being another one IMHO) doesn't mean you understand the business side of BB or for that matter how to evaluate talent.

Good Luck recovering and hope to see you playing this year since I was really looking forward to watching him play. His game looks NBA ready and this is a shame.

The Curse continures!

[xtremesteven33]

We'd be unstoppable with Camby but managing minutes would be tough for Pop and The Beast plays less.



We need more size....Camby would give us great size. I love Blair. but in order to really be secure for a championship we need size to battle the Lakers/Celtics....

[pjjrfan]

Bill Simmons told him to run. He didn't listen.

[superbigtime]

Clips should just be sold and become the new Seattle Supersonics. There is no point of their existence. The black hole of sports.

[Brazil]

I just drafted him on my fantasy league!:depressed

welcome to my world...:toast

[Spursmania]

that article is erie. I can't imagine how much research work he put into that thing. And that was written when, back in june? Wow. Bet simmons feels pretty good right about now.

+1

[Obstructed_View]

Of all things, I really hope Simmons doesn't feel good that Griffin is actually injured.

[Sean Cagney]

I just drafted him on my fantasy league!:depressed

Me too in the 5th round, I am fukked now :(

[Fernando TD21]

Clips should just be sold and become the new Seattle Supersonics. There is no point of their existence. The black hole of sports.
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[montgod]

We need more size....Camby would give us great size. I love Blair. but in order to really be secure for a championship we need size to battle the Lakers/Celtics....

I agree, but just don't see any valid trades the Spurs could do to get Camby including the ever popular Finley + Bonner....

[45 bank shot]

he'll be back