Article: Shaq to Miss Most of Training Camp


AP Online
08-30-2001
Shaq to Miss Most of Training Camp

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) -- Shaquille O'Neal will miss most of training camp after surgery to alleviate pain in his left small toe, but should be ready for the Los Angeles Lakers' season opener Oct. 30 against Portland.

O'Neal will be on crutches for about two weeks and won't run for six weeks, according to doctors who surgically corrected a claw toe deformity on O'Neal's foot Wednesday.

Team physicians Steve Lombardo and Phil Kwong cut away bone from the inside of O'Neal's small toe. The protrusion irritated the ...

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