NEW ORLEANS (AP)—Hornets starting forward and leading scorer David West(notes)
has a torn left knee ligament and is out for the season.
General manager Dell Demps says an MRI performed on Friday revealed a torn
anterior cruciate ligament. West was injured Thursday night in the Hornets’
121-117 overtime win at Utah.
West scored 29 points in the game before being taken off in a wheelchair
holding his head and grimacing in pain after going down hard after a dunk that
tied the game at 103.
The Hornets, who play at Phoenix on Friday night, currently hold the seventh
of eight playoff seeds in the Western Conference with nine regular season games
remaining. West’s primary backup is Carl Landry(notes), whom the Hornets acquired in a
trade in February.
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Hornets’ West has torn ACL, season over (AP)