PHILADELPHIA — The Jazz embarked Saturday on a six-game road trip that opens tonight in Philadelphia without rookie center Curtis Borchardt, who will be out at least six weeks after breaking his right wrist in Utah's Friday-night loss to Sacramento.
X-rays, Jazz trainer Gary Briggs said Saturday, revealed Borchardt both fractured his ulna (the forearm bone running from the tip of the elbow to the little-finger side of the wrist) and cracked his radius (the forearm bone on the thumb side).
Borchardt also was scheduled to undergo a CT scan, results of which were not immediately made known, to confirm that the joint itself still is intact.
The Stanford product was hurt after landing on the wrist while trying to break his fall after going up for a basket during second-quarter play Friday.
If Borchardt's wrist is placed in a hard cast, he could return in about six weeks, Briggs said. Should surgery be required — none is planned, as of now — he would out even longer.
Fellow big man Michael Ruffin remains on the injured list with a strained abdominal muscle and apparently is not yet ready to play, so for the time being Utah plans to go with just 11 healthy players on its 12-man active roster.
Also on the injured list is big man Keon Clark, yet another Jazzman who did not travel with the team. Instead, Clark returned home to Illinois while recovering from surgery to repair a chipped bone spur in his right ankle. He is not expected back until sometime in January at the earliest.
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