Clippers guard out indefinitely with fractured bone in left foot

Whereas everyone was making ready for Tremendous Bowl 2022 early on Sunday (Feb. 13), the LA Clippers supplied an vital replace on their guard/ahead Norman Powell. 

The crew had acquired Powell about 10 days earlier in a commerce from the Portland Path Blazers. 

That stated, this is all we all know in regards to the Powell damage scenario: 

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What’s Norman Powell’s damage? 

As per the crew’s announcement, the 6-foot-3 guard has suffered a “fractured medial sesamoid bone in his left foot”. 

The damage is one which Powell most probably suffered on Thursday in Dallas (Feb. 10). 

Right here’s a clearer angle at the place Maxi Kleber lands on Norman Powell’s foot, which is the place he suffered the foot fracture. pic.twitter.com/C6vPaBVvWZ

— Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) February 13, 2022

This damage is most probably what saved him out of the Clippers’ second recreation in Dallas on Saturday (Feb. 12).

How lengthy is Norman Powell dominated out? 

Because the crew’s launch states, there isn’t any timetable for Powell’s return and thus he’s most probably sidelined indefinitely.

LA acquired him together with Robert Covington from Portland in trade for Eric Bledsoe, Justise Winslow, Keon Johnson and a 2025 second-round decide.

The Clippers are Powell’s third NBA crew within the quick span of a yr, being shipped from the Toronto Raptors to the Path Blazers final March in trade for Gary Trent Jr. and Rodney Hood. 

Clippers upcoming 2021-22 schedule

Following Tremendous Bowl Sunday, the Clippers have three video games earlier than the All-Star break. 

Proper after that, they play 4 of their subsequent video games on the highway together with two consecutive in Houston.