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Another Day, Another Portland Trailblazer Having Minor Surgery on a Lower Appendage

Sep 9, 2008 – 3:14 AM
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Matt Moore

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Yawn. You know the drill. There's a Blazer. He's having surgery on something in his foot, ankle, or knee. He'll be out a few months. No need to panic. Be well, citizens.

This time it's Channing Frye, who had surgery to remove bone spurs in his foot and will be out what was first reported as 3 to 6 weeks, but is now eight to ten weeks, putting his return squarely in the middle of November, do not make training camp, do not make opening night, do not collect $200 dollars. Okay, you still collect $200 dollars because your contract is guaranteed. It's a figure of speech, Chan man.

This follows in the great Blazer tradition of Greg Oden last year, and Brandon Roy this year.

Again, neither Roy nor Frye's injuries are considered serious, but it does now present a creeping pattern of the injury bug for a team that was supposed to be taking its rightful place as the heir to the Western Conference, at least making a playoff spot this year.

Maybe it's all a coincidence and everything's cool, but if I were LaMarcus Aldridge, I wouldn't leave my house. Good news is this means more time for Channing to blog!

(HT: BlazersEdge, of course.)
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