The latest on BD
There was a mild breakout of panic when a couple of reports hit the internet last night, saying that Baron Davis could miss 4-6 weeks if his finger injury requires surgery.
I posted a blog about the situation last night, after talking to several players, coaches, and Baron's agent about the situation and at that point, the general consensus was that it a minor injury and Davis would probably miss this week's exhibition games, but would be ready to roll for the start of the season.
So what's the real story?
Well, the 4-to-6 week estimate is a worst-case scenario. Davis is seeing Dr. Roy Meals at UCLA this afternoon and we're expecting to hear the results later on today. But most of the people we spoke with today, including coach and general manager Mike Dunleavy, felt the more likely scenario would be a three-week recovery period. That's three weeks from the actual injury, which was last Friday, October 17.
``I'm not a doctor, but that's not my impression of the case,'' Dunleavy said, when asked if he expected Davis to miss an extended period of time. ``I don't want to influence a doctor, but off of what I've heard, it was very minor and he needed to see a specialist.
``It's more than likely be anywhere from under three weeks, splinted or whatever, and depending on pain tolerance, maybe sooner.''
In other words, officially cross Davis out of this week's exhibition games, but a return the first week of the season is still a possibility.
As for that worst-case scenario, Dunleavy didn't really want to consider it, but if it did come to that, here's what he'd do.
``We'd have to start thinking about a third guard in case someone got in foul trouble or injured,'' Dunleavy said. ``We'd probably try Eric (Gordon) there some as well.''
Strangely, I noticed that you don't get any comments on this site, even though I know for a fact that at least 15-20 Clips fans I know read it regularly.
Anyway, I wanted to thank you for the constant updates and the great coverage for our team. The Clips always get ignored in this town so it's great to have someone covering the team we love.
Please keep us updated on Baron. Clipper Nation is REALLY nervous. So far it sounds a lot better than we feared this AM.
Thanks Ramona for the update I speak for all Clipp fans when I write we appreciate the effort you put in with other writers to keep us updated.
On topic, I'm hoping at the least he will just have to miss the rest of preseason. This is not going to well for us so far, but due to other teams suffering injuries this may keep us on a even playing field. I'll keep checking around to see what you can come up with. If it is serious enough that we need to sign another PG that pretty much kills the deal for Jelani, pretty sad as I think he could be very useful this season.
Hopefully he can be back by the opener. *Crossing fingers*.
madglove, couldn't have said it better myself. You saw how many voted on the poll, so people do visit this site. Thanks Ramona, keep it up!
If it isn't as bad as Adande put it, I expect him to miss 4 games at the most. Hopefully Baron will surprise us and play in the opener.
Madglove is The Truth!
Ramona is on top of our Clips news! Now that ATIII at OCR has been sentenced to hard time at the LakerBlog, Ramona is our top Clipper insider! Ramona know that you blog is constantly linked by the Citizens at ClipsNation.com.
One thing the deters me from posting more on your blog is the login function is a PITA! Your webmaster has some work to do on that…otherwise, keep up the good job.
‘re BD…I hope he comes back and this whole thing does carry on through the rest of the season!