<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> Kings rookie center Spencer Hawes will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Wednesday, the team announced Tuesday.</p> Hawes missed the first week of training camp after injuring his knee during offseason conditioning drills Sept. 27. After two MRIs he flew to his hometown of Seattle for a second opinion with Dr. Lawrence Holland, who will perform the procedure.</p> While it's not known how long Hawes will be out, Kings coach Reggie Theus had said this operation was the best case scenario.</p> "If he needs to have a cleanup (arthroscopic surgery), then I'm very happy," Theus said Friday.</p> Seattle rookie Kevin Durant, a close friend of Hawes, said he spoke with him Monday night.</p> "He was kind of upset," Durant said. "He's upset he got hurt. But I just told him to slow down, don't rush into it and you'll be back in no time."</p> The worst-case scenario for the Kings and Hawes would have been for the center to undergo microfracture surgery, a procedure Holland performed on Hawes as a 14 year old.</div></p> Source: SacBee</p> I hope it's not microfracture surgery. First Oden and now Hawes tough to see these two not available for their rookie seasons.</p> </p>
