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Boys’ basketball: Successful surgery for Mater Dei’s Brown

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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Mater Dei senior forward Andy Brown, who tore a knee ligament late last month, underwent successful surgery today and is expected to be ready to play at Stanford next season, Monarchs Coach Gary McKnight said.

Recoveries from torn knee ligaments can be tricky, though. USC forward Kasey Cunningham was initially expected to be able to play as a freshman in 2006-07 after tearing a knee ligament during his senior year in high school.

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Cunningham’s recovery has gone more slowly than expected, to put it mildly. He redshirted his freshman season when the knee didn’t fully heal and then re-injured it in each of the following two seasons.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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