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Basketball
Daye’s healing on schedule
Austin Daye’s recovery from a knee injury is right on course, according to his mother, Tamara.
Daye, a Gonzaga University sophomore forward who hurt his knee at the LeBron James camp last month, saw UCLA Dr. David McAllister on Thursday after taking it easy the last three weeks.
“The doctor said everything looks good,” Tamara said. “He’s still a little sore because of the bone bruise. He said that can take up to two months to heal completely. He has to go to physical therapy for 2-3 weeks before he goes back to Spokane.
“In a week or two, he can shoot free throws and things like that, but no jumping. By the season, he should be completely fine.”
Tamara said after Austin completes his physical therapy in Southern California, she has an MRI disk with all the pertinent data on Daye’s knee that will be given to GU’s medical staff.
“The tiny tear (in the ACL) that the doctor saw, you could only see it in one of the images it was so miniscule. It’s just that the bone bruise is so deep and bad, it’s still sore. Austin said if he bends it all the way he can feel it.”
Tamara said the doctor wants Austin to strengthen the muscles on his right leg, but he should be at full strength when GU opens up practice in October.
“It’s a lot different scenario than the torn ACL and surgery (that was initially recommended before Daye sought second and third opinions),” Tamara said. “I just said to the doctor it blows my mind somebody could be that off and we would have gone in and just had surgery.”
College football
Former Husky now a Wildcat
Running back J.R. Hasty, the prize of Washington coach Tyrone Willingham’s first recruiting class, is resuming his career at Division II Central Washington.
Hasty is the son of former Washington State safety and longtime NFL player James Hasty, who started his career at CWU before transferring to Washington State.
Hasty, a 2004 Bellevue HS grad, was told earlier this summer that his UW scholarship would not be renewed.
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