Blake Griffin injury ends his season.
Clippers curse have just striked Blake(picapp.com)
Blake Griffin is a very exciting player to watch but unfortunately we will have to wait until next season to witness his first appearance in a real NBA game.
Clippers rookie injured his left knee during the last game of the preseason and at the time team announced that Blake could be out for six weeks. Well, it turned out to be much worse than that.
As the weeks passed, time after time people asked: “Hey, what’s up with Blake? When is he returning?”. It was already January and Griffin still wasn’t playing. I felt that something isn’t alright and I already expected bad news.
He hasn’t recovered from his injury well enough so he will have to undergo a surgery and that means he’s not playing this season. LA Clippers are having a good year and even though they are only 12th in the Western Conference standings their record is 17-20. It’s quite possible that with Blake playing they would have a realistic chance of making the playoffs while now I only give maybe a 20 % chance that two Los Angeles teams will be playing in the postseason. Western Conference is just too competitive right now (11 teams above 0.500 !!!).
However he remains optimistic and doesn’t refer to this injury as season-ending. He says it’s a debut-prolonging injury (kinda funny). Just a few years ago another rookie big man Greg Oden experienced similar problems and he still hasn’t showed the type of game what everyone expected to see from him when he was selected as the number 1 pick in the 2007 NBA draft. Greg also missed his entire rookie season and this year another serious injury struck him and he isn’t playing. I certainly hope that Blake’s return to the court will be more sucessful.
