This remains uncharted territory for Lakers guard Steve Blake. He’d never suffered a rib injury, at least nothing serious enough to keep him sidelined. “I’ve taken shots in the ribs before,” Blake said, “and I’ve never had a problem.”
But now he has. The Lakers estimate that it will take three or four weeks for Blake to fully recover from fractured cartilage that connects the rib to the sternum — a long way from the team’s initial day-to-day prognosis and Blake’s own expectation that he’d stay sidelined for only a week.
“I was surprised,” said Blake, who, if the Lakers’ timetable holds up, would miss from 11 to 17 games. “But you have to move on.” from the LA Times
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