21.   Forward CHRIS MARINUCCI has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee but will attempt to avoid reconstructive knee surgery.

22.   Hardaway, in a comeback year from reconstructive knee surgery, is on record as vowing to shoot less and pass more.

23.   He had reconstructive knee surgery.

24.   He had undergone major reconstructive knee surgery late in that season, and could only watch the festivities from the sideline.

25.   Having undergone an unprecedented three reconstructive knee surgeries, the fact that Danny Manning is still playing basketball is miraculous.

26.   He is coming off his second reconstructive knee operation in two seasons.

27.   Hearst missed camp his first year because of a lengthy holdout, and he sat out of camp last season while recovering from reconstructive knee surgery.

28.   He tore a knee ligament in the first game last season, marking the second consecutive season Malakhov had to undergo reconstructive knee surgery.

29.   He underwent reconstructive knee surgery immediately after the season.

30.   He was in the third day of recovery from elective reconstructive knee surgery when an error his doctors had made erupted somewhere in his abdomen.