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    NED – Surgery required after Netherlands’ Norel tears ACL

    BARCELONA (ACB) - DKV Joventut center Henk Norel tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on Wednesday night, an MRI exam has shown. The 23-year-old Dutchman suffered the injury in the second quarter of DKV Joventut’s game at Caja Laboral and will now have to undergo surgery. Norel, a second-round pick of the Minnesota Timberwolves ...

    BARCELONA (ACB) - DKV Joventut center Henk Norel tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on Wednesday night, an MRI exam has shown.

    The 23-year-old Dutchman suffered the injury in the second quarter of DKV Joventut’s game at Caja Laboral and will now have to undergo surgery.

    Norel, a second-round pick of the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2009 NBA Draft, had been averaging 6.4 points and 4.8 rebounds per game for DKV.

    One of the leading players in the Dutch national team, last summer the 2.14m center averaged nearly 27 points and also grabbed 11 rebounds per game to fire his country to wins against Austria, Estonia and Luxembourg in EuroBasket Division B.

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