The Los Angeles Clippers announced today that Blake Griffin will undergo season-ending surgery to repair his fractured patella. Griffin was slated to return this month but after increasing his rehabilitation workload he experienced pain, and it was then discovered that his knee cap was not healing as well as first anticipated.

Blake Griffin will have to wait until next year (Credit: ESPN)

Griffin had been running on an anti-gravity treadmill and using other sorts of futuristic rehabilitation devices, but unfortunately invasive surgery will be the only way to heal his ailing knee.

Griffin showed major promise during the preseason before succumbing to injury, but now joins the list of #1 draft pick disappointments for the Clippers. Perhaps the “Clippers Curse” is alive and well in this new decade. Griffin unfortunately also joins former #1 draft selection Greg Oden as recent #1 overall picks not playing in their first season due to injury.

The Clippers have been managing to play well without him this year, so at least he will not be bearing the brunt of bust chatter as Oden did. Besides, Clippers fans are used to this sort of thing by now. It is not like they passed on Michael Jordan, and drafted Sam Bowie.

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