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Yikes. That's a shame. Looked like a real exciting kid to watch.

That's a bummer.
 
That's too bad, poor kid. You hate to see something like this, even if he is on a different team.
 
"Broken kneecap". I winced just reading that. Seems the "Clippers curse" is alive and well.
 
Was it on this play? Look at him wincing after the dunk.

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Unfortunate stuff, but at least it isn't microfracture.

Edit: the above article confirms it:
Griffin apparently broke his kneecap during the Clippers' final exhibition game against New Orleans last Friday, perhaps after a dunk that left the power forward wincing in pain. The team initially said Griffin only had a sore left knee, making him questionable for the opener, before revealing the break.
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makes me sick to my stomach. Hope he bounces back soon!
 
Somewhere Simmons is gloating, and somewhere Simmons shouts,
But there is no joy in Clipperland, cause Griffin's knee gave out.
 
I'm just hoping he used up all of his Nostradamus power with the Griffin injury call. He's a clownshoe when it comes to the Blazers and/or Greg Oden.
 
Didn't Bynum have something like that
 
I said it earlier today in another thread - injuries suck and I really wish we could see all teams competing at their best. I'd rather beat the best at their best than squeak by them because of injuries.

So, I feel sympathy for Blake Griffin and I hope the injury heals quickly and completely with no long term implications. According to the article it is a stress fracture and he should be out "up to six weeks". That sounds promising. The knee cap doesn't have to bare any weight. So, while painful, a stress fracture of the knee cap isn't as serious as a stress in the foot (metatarsal) or lower leg (tibia or fibula). If all goes well, he should be back in early December.

BNM
 
Dear Blake,

Run. Just start running. Run for your life. Run like the star of a horror movie. Don't turn around. Run and keep running.

I think you should play in Greece. Or Italy. Or Spain. Or anywhere else. You should play anywhere but for the Clippers. Your agents and advisors are in denial. They don't want you to seem like an ungrateful jerk. They want you to be as marketable and likable as possible. They have talked themselves into the following scenario: "If Blake can turn the Clippers around and become a star in the No. 2 TV market in the country, only good things will happen to him."

See, this is where they are wrong. The odds are overwhelming that bad things will happen to you until you leave. And you will. The Clippers are cursed. They have been cursed for 33 consecutive years. It's a real curse, not a "Curse of the Bambino"-type hex manufactured to sell books. There has to be a legitimate reason why the Clippers franchise has been falling apart like Jon and Kate for three-plus decades, right? We've seen too much losing, too much incompetence, too much bad luck, too many freak occurrences. There has to be an answer.

I studied the Clippers' mess for three days, put everything on paper and tried to figure out a common thread. Blaming Moses Malone was too easy. Why would Moses curse the Clippers? The man could barely speak. Blaming Bill Walton ignored three seasons of misfortune that came before him. Blake, this went deeper than one person. This was karmic. This was creepy. This was like … they'd been hexed. Like they had built an arena on a sacred burial ground or something.

And that's when I realized what happened. In a way, they did mess with a sacred burial ground. They messed with the Indians. And you don't mess with the Indians. Ever.

Allow me to explain.

When the NBA awarded Buffalo an expansion franchise starting in the 1970-71 season, the team named itself the "Braves" to recognize Buffalo's Native American history. That's when the trouble began, Blake. For Native Americans, there was no more important animal than the buffalo. They depended on it for survival. They wore its fur as clothes. They revered the "white buffalo" -- a rare type of buffalo, almost as though it was albino -- and considered it to be sacred. By linking the word "Buffalo" with "Braves," a commonly known term to describe Native American warriors, the team's owners were basically announcing, "We are embracing the Indians and representing them in an honorable way."

For God's sake, look at their first logo. It's an Indian headdress on top of a basketball face; instead of facial features, we see a blue buffalo. In their second season, they changed the logo to a fancy "B" with a feather sticking out of it. The message remained clear: We are embracing the Native Americans.

Starting to get worried, Blake? You should be. Everything went swimmingly for the first six seasons in Buffalo. Led by North Carolina star Bob McAdoo (who won three scoring titles and an MVP award), the Braves put themselves on the map with playoff battles against two future champs (the Celtics in '74 and '76) and a really good Bullets team in '75. Everything turned in the summer of 1976, the same summer we celebrated our country's 200th Independence Day. (Yes, a country we stole from the Native Americans. I'm going to say this was a bad omen.) Twenty days before the Bicentennial, on June 14, Buffalo owner Paul Snyder announced he was selling the Braves to a group that planned to move them to Hollywood, Fla.


Run, Blake. Just run now and don't look back.

Only one problem: Nobody wanted the Braves to move. The other NBA owners hated the thought of accruing extra travel costs flying down to Florida just because Snyder sold out. The town of Buffalo was furious and immediately blocked the move with a restraining order and a $10 million lawsuit. And since the league was merging with the ABA that same month, this was an additional headache the league didn't need.

The sale fell through. But not before two things happened. First, McAdoo turned off the locals by saying about a potential Florida move, "It doesn't make any difference to me, as long as I can play and get paid for it." Thanks for the support, Mac! Second, there was a karmic shift against the franchise; from that moment forward, everything started to go wrong. And why?

Because Paul Snyder messed with the Indians!!!

How many times have we seen a horror movie or a Western in which someone desecrated sacred Indian territory in some way? Does it ever turn out well for them? Ever? Hell, even the Amityville Horror house was built over a sacred burial ground. That's why I believe in this curse over the other media-manufactured ones: In this case, we have ample evidence that, no, it's not a great idea to mess with Native Americans from a karmic standpoint. And Paul Snyder did.

Once the Florida sale fell through, Snyder sold half his share to a buffoon named John Y. Brown, with Brown assuming full control during the 1976-77 season and swapping franchises with Celtics owner Irv Levin after the 1977-78 season. What did Levin do? He moved the Braves to San Diego and renamed them the Clippers. He might as well have just beheaded a white buffalo. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Here's a timeline of everything that has happened to the Braves/Clippers franchise since June 14, 1976.

Pay attention, Blake. Pay close attention.
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This is the beginning of an open letter to Blake Griffin from Bill Simmons.....lol He goes on to document how the Clippers have failed in many transactions or bad luck

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090624&sportCat=nba
 
That sucks. I like the guy and I wish him well. He is an explosive, exciting player.
 
Sucks for the Clippers and their fans. I like Griffin and hopes he comes back and kicks some ass (but not when playing us). Clippers have always been my 2nd favorite team.
 
I think Simmons is attributing the concept of karma to the wrong Indians...
 
BeerBoy said:
Sucks for the Clippers and their fans. I like Griffin and hopes he comes back and kicks some ass (but not when playing us). Clippers have always been my 2nd favorite team.
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BB- Don't tell anybody, but I think mine is the "other" LA team.
 
Rodolfo said:
makes me sick to my stomach. Hope he bounces back soon!
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Me, too. My heart goes out to the Clippers fans. That has to be the most cursed franchise in NBA history. Their bad luck is unbelievable.
 
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