Garnett out indefinitely with injured right quadriceps
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Kevin Garnett is out indefinitely with an injured right quadriceps.
Vice president of basketball operations Kevin McHale said Wednesday night that the injury has bothered the former MVP for months, and Garnett and his agent decided it was time to shut it down and seek a second opinion.
McHale said Garnett will visit doctors in the next day or two and will miss at least two of the team's five remaining games. They will wait to see what the doctors say before Garnett decides if he will return at all this season.
Garnett is averaging 22.4 points and a league-leading 12.8 rebounds a game for the Timberwolves, who were eliminated from postseason contention on Monday.
Garnett attended the team's morning shootaround on Wednesday in preparation for the night's game against Dallas, but sat down with McHale afterward and told him of the decision.
"After talking with Mac and our medical staff, I realized that it's in my best interest to put my body first," Garnett said in a statement issued by the team. "I need to take this matter more seriously than I have been. I want to make sure that I correct this for the future, so that it is not an ongoing problem."
In his 12th season, Garnett is averaging 39.4 minutes per game, a workload that has worried McHale all season. McHale called the injury a "chronic use" issue, and thinks that the years of logging heavy minutes may be catching up with him.
"I've talked about that for three or four years," McHale said. "The minutes he logs are really ... Wow. To me, it's amazing he's able to do that and stay as healthy as he is."
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Kevin Garnett is out indefinitely with an injured right quadriceps.
Vice president of basketball operations Kevin McHale said Wednesday night that the injury has bothered the former MVP for months, and Garnett and his agent decided it was time to shut it down and seek a second opinion.
McHale said Garnett will visit doctors in the next day or two and will miss at least two of the team's five remaining games. They will wait to see what the doctors say before Garnett decides if he will return at all this season.
Garnett is averaging 22.4 points and a league-leading 12.8 rebounds a game for the Timberwolves, who were eliminated from postseason contention on Monday.
Garnett attended the team's morning shootaround on Wednesday in preparation for the night's game against Dallas, but sat down with McHale afterward and told him of the decision.
"After talking with Mac and our medical staff, I realized that it's in my best interest to put my body first," Garnett said in a statement issued by the team. "I need to take this matter more seriously than I have been. I want to make sure that I correct this for the future, so that it is not an ongoing problem."
In his 12th season, Garnett is averaging 39.4 minutes per game, a workload that has worried McHale all season. McHale called the injury a "chronic use" issue, and thinks that the years of logging heavy minutes may be catching up with him.
"I've talked about that for three or four years," McHale said. "The minutes he logs are really ... Wow. To me, it's amazing he's able to do that and stay as healthy as he is."
