"The unprecedented two year run of injuries continued for the Trail Blazers on Tuesday when it was discovered that starting center Marcus Camby has a partial tear in the meniscus in his left knee, which will require surgery later this week.

"Just stunned,'' coach Nate McMillan said Tuesday night from Sacramento, where the Blazers will play the Kings on Wednesday. "Really, just stunned. I don't know. I don't know.''

Camby becomes the fifth Trail Blazers player this season to undergo knee surgery, joining Greg Oden, Brandon Roy, Elliot Williams and Jeff Pendergraph.

Last season, the Blazers missed a combined 311 games because of injury, second most in the NBA. Three of those injuries also included knee surgeries, to Oden, Roy and Joel Przybilla.

Camby, 36, injured the knee in the first quarter of Monday's 113-102 victory against Minnesota and underwent a magnetic resonance imaging on Tuesday morning.

Initially, the team reported that the MRI was negative.

But team athletic trainer Jay Jensen was apprehensive about the initial diagnosis because team orthopedist, Dr. Don Roberts had yet to review the film work. Plus, after Tuesday's practice, Camby walked with a pronounced limp and winced noticeably once while walking, as if he stepped on a sharp nail."