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Way to be on top of it Monroe.
Spurs' Mahinmi to miss part of camp
Mike Monroe
Spurs center Ian Mahinmi will miss at least the first several days of training camp, which begins Tuesday, as he continues recovery from a sprained right ankle he suffered recently in informal workouts at the team's practice facility.
Mahinmi, a 6-foot-11, 230-pound big man from France who is entering his second season with the Spurs, spent the bulk of the 2007-08 season with the Spurs' Development League team, the Austin Toros. He played only six regular-season games with the Spurs, averaging 3.5 points and 0.8 rebounds.
Mahinmi showed up Friday at the team's preseason benefit golf tournament sporting a walking boot on his right leg. Spurs general manager R.C. Buford acknowledged the ankle sprain.
“Everybody wishes he were fit and ready to go,” Buford said, “but he's not ready right now. We're trying to be preventive, as we always are. It's an ankle sprain and a boot, so it's something we're being careful with.”
The Spurs selected Mahinmi in the first round of the 2005 NBA draft (28th overall). He spent the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons in the French professional league before signing a rookie scale contract with the Spurs last summer.
Mahinmi played 45 games with the Toros, averaging 17.1 points and 9.2 rebounds, leading the Toros to the D-League Finals.
Mahinmi was a member of the Spurs' entry in both the Las Vegas Summer Pro League and the Rocky Mountain Revue summer league and had been expected to get significant playing time in preseason games before suffering the ankle sprain. Now his development as a potential backup to both All-Star power forward Tim Duncan and starting center Fabricio Oberto has suffered a temporary setback.
Miceli named marketing chief: The Spurs announced Friday that veteran sports marketer Frank Miceli had been hired as the team's new senior vice president of marketing and sales. Miceli will oversee all marketing, promotional, ticket sales, new media and communications initiatives for the Spurs, Rampage, Silver Stars, Austin Toros and the AT&T Center.
Miceli spent 18 years in various marketing positions with Comcast-Spectacor, which operated the Philadelphia 76ers, Philadelphia Flyers, AHL's Philadelphia Phantoms and National Lacrosse League's Philadelphia Wings.
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Way to be on top of it Monroe.
Hopefully it is days and not weeks. Although the walking boot makes me doubt it is going to end up just being a few days.Spurs center Ian Mahinmi will miss at least the first several days
Thank the basketball gods that this offseason is about to end. It seemed like every week brought just more bad news.of training camp, which begins Tuesday
Props to Monroe for naming Oberto a starter. Pop will appreciate itNow his development as a potential backup to both All-Star power forward Tim Duncan and starting center Fabricio Oberto has suffered a temporary setback.
I think its a given Oberto starts.
Thomas doesn't start well next to Duncan, and Mahinmi is too young and obviously hurt, to do so.
arg, there's not a week without bad news really....
Let's hope this incredible string of bad news and bad breaks ends with the offseason.
Last edited by SenorSpur; 09-27-2008 at 09:35 AM.
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That was my first thought when I saw the le.
At least the spurs got a former Philadelphian for marketing chief.
What the is so bad about Oberto? Please, explain. In my estimation, he's played a of a lot better than any of the bigs that have played alongside Duncan in terms of chemistry. It wasn't Oberto's fault we were out of the playoffs last year, man. It was Manu's.
I'm pretty sure the Spurs organization needs to give up on the Express News and just let the collective effort of Spurtalk handle the spurs news and media biz.
We're apparently much better at it anyways.
What is wrong with Oberto? Well, we already have Bowen who is good for 6 or 7 pts, do we really need two guys that can't help offensively?
So you're defending Oberto by throwing Manu under the bus?
Oberto is just way way way too inconsistent. He had a nice playoff run in 2007, but last season he was AWOL 3 out of every 4 games. It seems like if he isn't getting himself involved in the game early on, he just sort of goes through the motions.
He's a decent backup, but to put him in the starting 5 really hurts this team.
I like him better when he plays with Manu, but then again, Manu always makes these stupid entry passes to Oberto that the entire world is aware of, so they end up getting picked off.
Who is the offensive scoring machine they are holding out of the starting 5 because of Oberto?
mayeb oberto should treat every fukn playoff game as an olympic game...fukn wanker seems to perform better on the international stage than spurs champioship basketball
mayeb u shld stp pusting.
So you would rather have Kurt Thomas taking 15 foot jump shots that could have either been a post shot by Tim, or a drive by Tony? Oberto can score, he just doesn't have a post game(neither does KT). He can make a little standstill jumper from time to time on pick and pop, and he's great moving without the ball. Bottom line, he just knows how to play the game, great basketball IQ.
Oberto is a known and proven asset, things are as they are with him.
He needs help rebounding when playing against LA type teams.
Mahinmi sets out to show how he can contribute, let him team up with Oberto and let the compe ion begin between those two for PT.
Ians feet are still concrete. Maybe 1 or 2 more seasons he may help the spurs out. But from what Ive seen during the summer league, he still is a wasted project. Fab is the biggest choke artist we've had in many years. And Kurt is old, slow and short. Most of the west teams have 2 so called twin towers. Yao and Scolla, Gasol and Bynum, Shaq and Amare, Tyson and West, Oden and Aldrige, to name a few. We cant compete with those teams with Timmy and Fab. I dont like to say it, but those are the facts. We will live and die from beyond the arc.
Game 4 of the 2007 Finals proves that you're talking out of your ass, yet again.
I'll mail you the series of last years WCF and you can see for yourself. Oberto got exposed, he got exposed real bad. How many boards did he avr that series? Pau Gasol even significantly out rebounded him. But when Gasol went up againts Perkins in the finals he got taught a lesson on the boards.
Last edited by AC#21_TD ERA; 09-29-2008 at 10:24 PM.
Funny how he try to hide the lack of Spurs' coverage by calling a 1 month old injury recent.
If Mahinmi has still a walking boot, he should miss more than "several days". I highly doubt it will be less than the two weeks he said to french newspaper.
Right now, Oberto starting is what makes more sense for Spurs. Against some matchups, Thomas could start but Oberto is the most suited to start against the majority of teams.
In other words, we may not see him for another three weeks.
Oberto is a bench player, end of story.
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