Timberwolves forward Robert Covington had surgery Monday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester designed to alleviate swelling in the right knee he injured earlier this season.
Covington — who missed his 40th consecutive game Monday — had already been ruled out of the remainder of the Wolves season because of the injury, a bone bruise to the knee, suffered Dec. 31 at New Orleans.
Covington had been recovering well from the knee bruise but began experiencing swelling in the joint, the root of which was difficult to ascertain. So Covington underwent what the Wolves called a “successful diagnostic arthroscopic procedure,” one performed by Dr.