Festus Ezeli helps fortify the front court for the Portland Trail Blazers. Ezeli, the former Golden State Warriors center, signed with Portland on a two-year deal in free agency this summer.
Last month, Ezeli received a knee injection of bone marrow concentrate which was expected to keep him out for six weeks. The latest update is that he won’t be able to go for training camp, and his timetable is uncertain.
. @festus says he’s disappointed he won’t be ready to play come training camp, but he hopes to be ready sometime soon after.
— Casey Holdahl (@CHold) September 22, 2016
More from Ezeli via Ananth Pandian of CBS Sports:
“I personally don’t have a timeline,” Ezeli said while visiting at a Boys and Girls Club in North Portland on Thursday. “I’m taking it day by day because when it comes to this situation, you never go with a timeline. It will frustrate me if I go by a timeline. I just try to take it by how I feel so hopefully sometime soon I can get back on the court and start playing again.”
Fortunately for Portland, their depth of big men is sound. They still have Meyers Leonard, Mason Plumlee, and Noah Vonleh to work with in the meantime.
