Blake Griffin Injures Knee, Anthony Davis Summoned to Las Vegas

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Blake Griffin Injures Knee, Anthony Davis Summoned to Las Vegas

By Stephen Douglas July 12, 2012 1:46 pm ET

By: Stephen Douglas | July 12, 2012 1:46 pm ET

Blake Griffin has hurt his knee in a Team USA scrimmage according to Yahoo!’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Griffin, who just signed a 5-year, $95 million extension with the Clippers, will return to Los Angeles to see team doctors and get an MRI. Anthony Davis has been asked to join Team USA’s training camp.

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Previously: Blake Griffin Dunking at Team USA Practice

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Comments

Ty_Webb

typical Clippers
http://i.imgur.com/6mQjo.gif VladimirCrouton

So what? He was just there to dunk the ball and miss free throws.
http://tunagolf.wordpress.com illformula

he can always rely on his jumper. oh, wait…
A.P.

Good. we need someone else to play defense inside. Blake Griffin was useless for this tournament. This isn’t a dunk contest or an and1 exhibition. Overrated, overpaid.
https://twitter.com/#!/derkaiser10 Der Kaiser

Club teams seriously need to take a stand against international sporting events. It’s crazy that your club pays your salary, and you can just go get injured playing for some other team.
Dawgfather

Well said AP, well said. Team USA likely just got stronger.
http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

Club teams seriously need to take a stand against international sporting events. It’s crazy that your club pays your salary, and you can just go get injured playing for some other team.

REPRESENT YOUR FUCKING COUNTRY.
DeusExMachina

Definite upgrade. Blake is basically Amare without a jump shot.
njensen79

injured playing for some other team

Some other team? This is THE team!

/really doesn’t give a shit.
geoffreyvs hired a PR firm to get his son's coach fired; now I'm running for Senate!

Club teams seriously need to take a stand against international sporting events. It’s crazy that your club pays your salary, and you can just go get injured playing for some other team.

My brain says yes, my heart says no.
http://womenshotgunningbeers.tumblr.com/ sousedbergin

REPRESENT YOUR FUCKING COUNTRY.

If I’m representing the Obese States Of Meth Math Slutty Iran I need to get paid.
http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

If I’m representing the Obese States Of Meth Math Slutty Iran I need to get paid.

OSOMMSI! OSOMMSI! OSOMMSI!
http://twitter.com/adamstbear St. Bear

Well said AP, well said. Team USA likely just got stronger.

Not in terms of their YouTube Links per 48 minutes.
PeerLessPrices

You’re representing your country. There is no Argument to trump that, re: club pays player
http://www.h8torade.com PL StabbinKabin

Me thinks the team just got better with Davis on the squad.
WheresWallace

Don’t think Davis is eligble. Didn’t he need to be on the final roster on July 7th? That’s why they made cuts.
http://twitter.com/ButtersBC ButtersBC

You’re representing your country. There is no Argument to trump that

It’s just a basketball tournament, if other people use that as a means to generate pride in their country that’s on them
https://twitter.com/#!/derkaiser10 Der Kaiser

My brain says yes, my heart says no.

I’ve slowly came around to club’s point of regarding this issue. I realize national teams play a huge role in game’s popularity (especially in case of soccer), but at certain point, it just doesn’t make much sense anymore. We live in a connected world now, unlike 50 years ago. A fan in Malaysia can simply turn on the TV and watch the best of the best play in NBA and European soccer leagues. National teams really aren’t a necessity anymore.

All I know is, if I ever own a sports team, I’d take all sorts of measures to make sure my players don’t ever play for national teams.
http://www.twitter.com/kcresident KC Resident

Can someone decipher this for me…

Roddy White
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A lot of stuff get swept under the rug at university’s don’t understand why penn state had to tell the media we got a coach rapping kids
http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

It’s just a basketball tournament, if other people use that as a means to generate pride in their country that’s on them

i guess it would be awfully “american” of us to send a bunch of schmucks with little training instead of putting our best effort forward.
geoffreyvs hired a PR firm to get his son's coach fired; now I'm running for Senate!

All I know is, if I ever own a sports team, I’d take all sorts of measures to make sure my players don’t ever play for national teams.

In the case of soccer, there’s really no way to cut them off except to threaten your players, which would be unapprecaited.
http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

MP…josh gordon thoughts?
ohheelyeah

Can someone decipher this for me…

gosh, thats not going to be a good look for him
https://twitter.com/#!/CuriousGeorger molemaninthemorning

Blake Griffin

Number one with a bullet on the list of reasons the 92/12 debate is retarded.
https://twitter.com/#!/derkaiser10 Der Kaiser

In the case of soccer, there’s really no way to cut them off except to threaten your players, which would be unapprecaited.

That’s the case with NBA too, I believe. FIBA and NBA has an understanding that NBA teams can’t legally prohibit their players from taking part in international tournaments. But now I think Stern is taking NBA players off of Olympics. He wants to create a “world cup of basketball” tournament where NBA is going to control a lot of the revenue coming in. A good solution in my opinion. If they are assuming all the injury risk, they should be compensated for it.