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Boti: 36ers supporting Gilchrist through surgery
...the 36ers organisation has rallied around its point guard, allowing him to have his operations and recovery here in Adelaide.Full article: Gilchrist keeps on watching
His contract expires next month so the Sixers were under no such obligation.
`That's not how we want to be as an organisation," 36ers chief executive Ben Fitzsimons said. "John was injured while he was an employee of ours and we're supporting him and helping him with his rehab."
Dr Graham Lee, who has been the 36ers' team doctor for 17 years, said Gilchrist's injury was among the most severe he had seen.
"I'd probably see a knee injury of this degree maybe once a year," he said. "It is probably at two-thirds the severity of Trent Henschel's which was about as bad as you can get.
"John ruptured his ACL but also he completely tore the outer back corner of his knee."
