http://www.nba.com/clippers/news/brand_achilles_070803.html</p> </p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Los Angeles Clippers' forward Elton Brand ruptured his left Achilles tendon today during his regular daily workout at Spectrum Club South Bay. Plans for Brand to undergo surgery to repair the injury are underway, the details of which will be made available by the team as soon as they are finalized.</div></p> </p> </p> </p>
It took Takeo Spikes nearly a year to recover from a torn achilies. My guess is that if the Clipeprs arent in playoff contention come April brand sits the entire year. I seriously doubt he opts out of his contract now, because he can get paid $16.5 mil and use that as a contract year before he becomes a free agent.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TucsonClip)</div><div class='quotemain'>It took Takeo Spikes nearly a year to recover from a torn achilies. My guess is that if the Clipeprs arent in playoff contention come April brand sits the entire year. I seriously doubt he opts out of his contract now, because he can get paid $16.5 mil and use that as a contract year before he becomes a free agent.</div></p> </p> wow, and I thought the Nets were cursed.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GM3)</div><div class='quotemain'> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TucsonClip)</div><div class='quotemain'>It took Takeo Spikes nearly a year to recover from a torn achilies. My guess is that if the Clipeprs arent in playoff contention come April brand sits the entire year. I seriously doubt he opts out of his contract now, because he can get paid $16.5 mil and use that as a contract year before he becomes a free agent.</div></p> </p> wow, and I thought the Nets were cursed. </p></div> Well the Clippers did make the playoff the year the Nets held the Clippers first round pick unprotected
I think it is funny that the LA Times article says Brand is out at least the first two months of the season. In the same article they confirmed brand TORE his Achilies. I am pretty sure he is done for the year, not at least two months or six months.
<font color="#000080">Sigh, this was the last thing the Clippers needed. It screws up the present and possibly the future for them. Clippers have some back luck when it comes to injuries. I just hope Brand bounces back quickly, right now the season isn't look so good.</font>
http://www.nba.com/clippers/news/brand_update_070806.html</p> Los Angeles Clippers' forward Elton Brand will undergo surgery to repair a rupture to his left achilles tendon on Tuesday at Wilmington Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. Dr. Craig Morgan will perform the procedure.</p> Following the surgery and Dr. Morgan’s consultation with Clippers’ team physician Dr. Tony Daly, a subsequent announcement will be made later on Tuesday concerning Brand's prognosis and details concerning his post-operative rehabilitation. </p> </p>
I thought the Clippers were only going to get better after the 2006 playoffs. Man this is a hard blow for a franchise that has already endured so much.I hope Brand can return to his usual All-Star form after this injury.</p>
It's typical for this to be at least a one-year injury (if not career ender), but lots of people in LA are talking the six-month story. Not sure why they are sayig six-months, just passing it along.
http://www.nba.com/clippers/news/brand_update_070807.html</p> </p> Los Angeles Clippers’ forward Elton Brand underwent a successful procedure to repair a ruptured left Achilles tendon on Tuesday morning at the Christiana Care’s Wilmington Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware.</p> </p> No timetable has been set for his return to NBA action. The Clippers will provide status updates on Brand’s progress when it is deemed necessary. </p>
<font size="3" color="#ff0000">Brand Says He Will Return This Season <font size="1" color="#000000">Clippers Asked if Performance Enhancing Drugs Played a Role in Injury</font></font></p> http://www.latimes.com/sports/basketball/n...orts-nba-clippe</p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>"We were playing the best of five, I had won the first two and was driving for the winning score in the third game, but they didn't call the foul and he came back to win that one," Brand said. "But I was up 4-0 in the next game and driving to the hoop, when bam, like the sound of a drum," his Achilles' tendon ruptured.</div></p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>"I'll be back this season -- for sure," Brand said. "I've got a cast on now for the next three weeks, then I'll be in a walking boot for four to eight weeks before I begin rehabbing. I'm not putting a deadline on it -- but I'll be back this season."</div></p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>IT'S BEEN two weeks since Brand's surgery in Wilmington, Del. -- 11 days since his picture appeared atop a koolse.com blog trying to set the record straight about his injury, while also expressing displeasure with the Clippers. "It was not a sudden occurrence as some bloggers wrote," Brand's blog noted, while indicating he had been initially hurt in Toronto during the season and had taken a cortisone shot so he could still help the playoff-seeking Clippers. "One could imagine my disbelief when asked if my (Achilles') injury was due to performance-enhancing drugs by Clipper brass," Brand wrote. "I know we live in that era, but I hold the game of basketball in high esteem, and conduct myself with integrity. I am not trying to go all Kobe on the staff, but to be asked that question when all facts were (known)…was very disappointing to say the least." You could understand someone asking Gary Matthews such a question, but the Clippers irritating their very own. Very odd. A Clippers spokesman said the team has no such concerns about Brand, and it was just a "misunderstanding." Brand wouldn't say who challenged him, and said, "I'm really not mad," but anyone who knows Brand and how important he values doing the right thing will understand why such a "misunderstanding" would wound him so. "When people use performance-enhancing drugs it decreases the integrity of the tendons," Brand said. "But what we're talking about here is my integrity."</div></p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan)</div><div class='quotemain'>His optimism is nice, but he coming back to early is going to create other problems</div></p> I dont even see how he could possibly come back this season. If he does, like you said, he is going to create a new problem/injury.</p>
