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DENVER -- Baron Davis insists criticism he's gotten recently for not playing doesn't bother him. Still, he wants it to be known he's been hurting awhile.The Los Angeles Clippers point guard has sat out the past two games with a cyst behind his left knee and said he expects to also miss the next four. He said he's "thinking hopefully the Detroit game on the 12th'' at home is when he will return.
"It's getting a little better,'' Davis said in an interview with FanHouse on Friday before he was about to miss his third straight game at Denver. "It's just frustrating. It's something that I really have no control over. ... It's been bothering me forever.''
Forever?
Well, try nearly four years. Davis said he's continued to have problems with his left knee ever since he had arthroscopic surgery Feb. 13, 2007 while with Golden State.
"It was during that year when I came back from the injury, and then we went on the run,'' said Davis, who returned March 5 that season and helped the Warriors to a shocking 4-2 first-round upset over defending West champion Dallas. "Then in the summer it flared up a lot and then the next year we just kind of monitored it and it would swell up a couple of days. We were able to kind of treat it, and kind of get it out of the way. I ended up playing in all 82 (games in 2007-08).
"Then the first year (with the Clippers in 2008-09) it came back in L.A. toward the end of the season. And last year it came back toward the end of the season. It just during (last summer) kept coming back and back. ... Every year it just flares. It's just annoying. It's like no matter what I do, I have no control over it.''
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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/11/05/baron-davis-says-left-knee-has-been-hurting-since-2007/
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