Odd news coming out of Salt Lake City.
Utah Jazz forward Carlos Boozer will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his left knee.
Boozer has missed 21 straight games because of a strained quad tendon he sustained during a Nov. 17 game against Milwaukee.
The Jazz said in a statement Tuesday that a date for the surgery has not been set, but doctors said it likely wouldn’t occur until Jan. 9.
Why is this odd? Well, Boozer has already missed 21 games and the problem didn’t have anything to do with his knee (or so we were told). It usually takes a player 4-6 weeks to recover from a scope, so you’d think that they would have done this operation at the start of Boozer’s absence. Also, the fact that they are waiting until Jan 9. to do the surgery tells me that they weren’t expecting him back anytime soon anyway. Tack on another four weeks and it looks like the earliest he could make his return would be early February.
Utah is 19-14 and currently in the #9 slot in the West. This is not good news for the Jazz, especially with the news that Paul Millsap will miss at least another week with his own knee injury.
