Denny Hamlin to have minor knee surgery Wednesday
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Denny Hamlin will have arthroscopic knee surgery on Wednesday to repair some minor damage to his right knee, he said Friday.
Hamlin was originally scheduled to have the surgery during an off week this summer but elected to postpone it until after the season.
“There’s tears in there,” he said. “[The surgery is to] basically scope it out. I just have problems with it when I get out of the car, it really is stiff and the joints really hurt, so it’s something that needs to be done for the long run.”
Hamlin, also an avid basketball player, thought of postponing the surgery until after the Sprint Cup Series banquet in Las Vegas but said “I can’t cancel on those guys – I’ve already canceled on them once.”
“We’ll do it and then it’ll be a couple weeks recovery before I can get back to what I usually do,” he said. “As long as I can walk around in a few days, I should be fine.”
