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Karma Is Steering Markelle Fultz To Philadelphia 76ers

Feb 26, 2017; Pullman, WA, USA; Washington Huskies guard Markelle Fultz (20) looks on form the bench during a game against the Washington State Cougars during the second half at Friel Court at Beasley Coliseum. The Cougars won 79-71. Mandatory Credit: James Snook-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 26, 2017; Pullman, WA, USA; Washington Huskies guard Markelle Fultz (20) looks on form the bench during a game against the Washington State Cougars during the second half at Friel Court at Beasley Coliseum. The Cougars won 79-71. Mandatory Credit: James Snook-USA TODAY Sports
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Karma has been a vicious mistress to the Philadelphia 76ers. But in strange twist, might now be steering Markelle Fultz to the team

On one hand, you have University of Washington point guard Markelle Fultz. He is the consensus number one pick in the 2017 NBA Draft. He has it all, does it all. He’s the one man wrecking crew of the University of Washington Huskies basketball team that has been losing games.  In fact, the team had lost the last twelve games of the season, one of which included the face off between UCLA’s Lonzo Ball and Fultz.

UCLA won that game.

But other forces are at work as well.  Markelle Fultz had missed five of the last seven games of the Huskies season. The reason?  He has an unspecified knee injury.  And that’s raised more than one set of eyebrows.  Christian Caple addressed those very concerns in an article written for TheOlympian.com.  In the article, he discussed Fultz’s injury with University of Washington head coach Lorenzo Romar.  As of right now, Romar places Fultz as unlikely to appear in the PAC-12 men’s basketball tournament.  UW faces USC at 8:30 PM Wednesday, March 8.

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Markelle’s Knee

Caple did persuade Romar to reveal a little bit more about the knee:

"“They know exactly what they feel is supposed to happen or what may not happen in a certain amount of time,” Romar said. “Like we had said before, he came back and didn’t quite respond the way they wanted, so we just backed off a little longer.” Asked if Fultz’s knee has any structural damage, Romar replied: “Just for Markelle and everybody else, that’s all I’m going to say on it. The less you say, the more it raises, ‘well, what’s going on? I know they’re hiding something.’ Nobody’s hiding anything. He’s just not ready to go yet, until we find out (in) this meeting (with doctors).” – per Christian Caple of TheOlympian.com"

What do we know? We know it’s a knee. We know that it is not a major injury, We can infer that it is soft tissue: cartilage, ligament, tendons.  Since the physicians tried Fultz out on the knee after some rest and then rested him again, the injury is most likely associated with the meniscus.