Skyy Clark Injury Update: UK Basketball Recruiting News

A single of the Kentucky Wildcats’ class of 2022 commits Skyy Clark is obtaining nearer to generating his return to the court docket following a torn ACL in July.

Jack Pilgrim of Kentucky Athletics Radio caught up with his father, Kenny Clark, to converse about his son’s street to recovery.

Given that the operation in July, Clark has used every single second carrying out accurately what he demands to do in buy to get back again on the courtroom.

The approach started off with strengthening the leg, operating on balance and walking. Then they began jogging and performing small jumps. Clark then progressed to running adopted by dunking and comprehensive-speed drills. Now Clark has returned to one particular-on-one particular play.

Originally, Clark was provided a six-thirty day period recovery timeline and he is expected to strike that concentrate on return date as he is about a month away.

“The medical professional states he can be again on the courtroom with the group on January 7th,” Clark stated. “He can go again to exercise in a few weeks. We’re going to get it sluggish and see how he progresses around these upcoming couple of months, not gonna rush anything. If he was in form, he could be out there correct now. We wouldn’t do that, but just to exhibit how considerably ahead of schedule he is. … He’s as fired up as ever.”

As of suitable now, he’s “probably about 90 p.c appropriate now, probably 95.”

It is a great indication that Clark is on keep track of to be again on the court docket up coming month as he seems to be to finish his final large school period robust in advance of receiving to Lexington.

Look at out some video clips Clark posted on his Twitter through his recuperate system below.

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