mkwest wrote:Eric Gordon - a couple of days to a week, won't travel to Sacramento
Marcus Camby (ear) - cleared to fly to Sacramento
Al Thornton (sore right foot) - game time decision
Brian Skinner - cleared to play
Chris Kaman - should resume full contact practices sometime next week
clipperfan4life wrote:that sucks that eric gordon is not gonna play
but where did you find this?
Camby's status has grown increasingly murky.
Not only has the fluid in his head -- caused apparently from a previous ear infection -- brought on painful migraines, but there are additional concerns.
Clippers Coach Mike Dunleavy said at practice Monday there is an issue of balance, and if the antibiotics don't work, there may be a need for an additional procedure.
"You've got pain and a loss of equilibrium, that's the problem," Dunleavy said. "You can get through the pain thing, that's one thing. But it's kind of hard to play basketball without your equilibrium."
It all started, apparently, when Camby's eardrum popped during the All-Star break.
"It's the weirdest injury. Most of the time it's plantar fasciitis, but mine was a tear. It's still really sore at the end of practice last week. The doctor said the scar tissue could be there for eight months."
Randolph, whose father died last week, will be traveling back to Indiana for the wake Thursday and the funeral Saturday. He is expected to be back in time for Sunday's game against the New Jersey Nets.
Clippers point guard Baron Davis said in a quick postgame interview in the locker room that he was told he has a stomach ulcer.
Davis did not play against the Spurs and earlier thought he had either flu or food poisoning. "It's been building up for a week," he told The Times. "I knew it was something."
Stress? He said he had a stomach ulcer during his days at UCLA, and Davis was in obvious discomfort when he was talking about his physical issues.
"It's like somebody's sewing up the top part of my stomach," he said.
Misfortune hit the injury-riddled Marcus Camby, again, less than three minutes into the game when he crashed to the court while contesting the Spurs' Tim Duncan for a rebound and sprained his left ankle.
He hobbled off the court, with assistance, and also needed help getting back to the locker room. The ankle is not broken, the team said, but this could practically end his star-crossed season. The team said he would be out one to two weeks. Two weeks would mean he might get back for the final three or four games.
Forward Al Thornton has a partially torn tendon in his right shoulder, and the Clippers are going to take a conservative approach with the injury.
He will rest it about four weeks and then embark on a strengthening program. Clippers trainer Jasen Powell said that Thornton first suffered the injury when he went up for a dunk in a game at Golden State in mid-March.
Thornton, who sat out five of the last six games, was asked about the level of pain, on a scale from one to 10. "When I'm doing something and when I can feel it, probably at a seven," he said.
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