NBA | Clippers' Blake Griffin could miss first six weeks with stress fracture of left kneecap

LOS ANGELES — Clippers rookie forward Blake Griffin, the No. 1 overall draft choice in the NBA draft in June, has a stress fracture of the left patella, or kneecap, and could miss as much as six weeks, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.

Tests on Monday revealed the fracture and a second opinion later in the day backed up the conclusion of the first doctor. The report said Griffin could miss the first 20 games. Griffin is also dealing with tendinitis of the left knee.

Barkley wants to be GM

NEW YORK — Charles Barkley thinks he can do better than some of the general managers he criticizes on TV.

The Hall of Fame player and TNT analyst said Monday he'd like his chance to run an NBA team, though he's in no rush because he'd want the right job.

"I think that it'd be fun to try to build my own team," Barkley said at a luncheon, joined by studio partners Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson. "We talk about it all the time. Sometimes we say, 'What is that guy doing? Why did he draft that guy? Why did he make a trade for that guy?'

"Some of these guys have done a bad job, plain and simple."

Notes

• The wife of Cleveland guard Delonte West, a one-time Sonic, has filed a domestic violence report against her husband. The report, filed with Cleveland police on Sunday, says that Kimberly West met with authorities at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, where she had gone to fly to her father's house in New Jersey.

In the report, she says that Delonte West had accused her of cheating on him and that they had argument in which he grabbed her and took her wedding ring and purse.

• Shimon Mizrahi, the president of Maccabi Tel Aviv, has apologized to the NBA and the Knicks for its coach's behavior during an exhibition game at Madison Square Garden.

Pini Gershon, the coach, also said he was sorry in letters that were sent Monday to league commissioner David Stern and Knicks president Donnie Walsh, and seen by The Associated Press.

• Phoenix was awarded the rights to center Jarron Collins, who was waived by Portland.