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He didnt know it was broken until after the finals.
Same reason he played on a broken leg for the spurs. (As well as a broken arm and a broken nose)
Hint: it has nothing to do with money.
He didnt know it was broken until after the finals.
Good point, and point taken. Not sure if they knew either injury was a fracture though, did they? Possibly the fractured arm, but I don't think they knew about the leg.
I probably still would have wanted him to play if he could (without making it worse) and wanted to.
Broken leg isnt even comparable to a nose or arm anyway. Remember that kid for Louisville that ed his leg up in the tourney? yeah that was likely a hairline fracture that finally split in half when he landed on it with enough force.
You need your legs to do literally everything in this game.
blessing in disguise i think
If the rule about injury enabling Spurs to force Manu to sit is true it's time for the Spurs to hire S y Sterling-esque doctors & flex dat muscle tbh..
Quotes from an interview with a radio station in Bahia Blanca:
"It doesn't hurt. I'm optimist, but I have my doubts and fears. I feel the injury is definitely better. When the season ended I couldn't touch that area without feeling pain, now there's no pain to the touch"
"Now we have to wait until they take a look inside (referring to the studies he's going to have done on August 1st), see how's the bone, if it soldered, healed. Then we'll know if I'm better or if I have to shut it down. If I'm better, I'll start training slowly and ramp it up to avoid the impact".
"We'll see if 35 days are enough. I think it is because it's a reasonable amount of time. It's not an open fracture or a big fracture, it's a fairly small stress fracture".
"The Spurs definitely did not want me to go to the World Championship because I was injured. That's what the doctor said, but he's the team doctor, so it's obvious which interest is more prevalent for him. When I spoke with Pop he understood and he appealed to my honesty. I guaranteed to him that if I was in pain I was not going to play. That's what we agreed".
http://canchallena.lanacion.com.ar/1...-tengo-temores
He's gonna play. You can see it a mile away...
Hopefully the Spurs enforce injury rule, tbh.
He's 37 years old and yet he still wants to play in the WC. He should worry more about his next contract with the Spurs tbh. It looks like he can play another season or two after next year.
What he is doing is not indicative of someone who thinks he will be playing past his current contract. Firstly, it's just extra miles and feels like a last hurrah-type moment. Secondly, as he said, it's against the Spurs wishes which probably won't bode too well (although I don't think it has a major impact on anything unless he has an injury-riddled season or seriously hurts himself during WC play).
He's doing what he wants, as he always has (within his rights) and it doesn't seem to me he will last past his current contract, but that's just my opinion.
God damn it manu
I don't understand why he is so insistent on playing. Manu is being terribly unreasonable and even trying to attack the credibility of the team doctor. Wtf?
Hard to defend Manu in times like these tbh.
he is playing and saying the Spurs are bias against it, he will play like ass for at least the first half of next season
Pretty frustrating...
You guys will never get it, tbh. Don't try to reason it.
This is what Manu has always done and like others have said he's acting like this is his last season .
I completely understand what Manu is doing and why he wishes to represent his country. Selfishly, I don't want him to play this summer and I wish that he would rest/recover so that he will be fully healthy for the upcoming NBA season - but from a patriotic standpoint, I applaud what he is doing. I agree with DPG when he says that it appears that Manu doesn't appear to want to play beyond his current contract. Perhaps he views this summer's cup as a "last hurrah" for Argentina as well as this season being his final in the NBA - and he doesn't want to miss this opportunity.
His comments about the Spurs team doctor(s) are factual - they are indeed employed by the team and do (and should) have the team's best interests in mind when making all diagnoses. He wasn't necessarily calling them out or saying that their assessments were incorrect, only that they were biased and would obviously always err on the side of caution on behalf of the team.
Again, I hope that he doesn't play this summer (and I honestly feel that he won't if he feels that it will jeopardize his season with the Spurs) but I understand if he does.
he is one idiot they must not teach common sense over there
nice stab at the spurs training staff that keeps you healthy
jackass
maybe the spurs should trade him to the bucks
spurs pay him excess of 100 million and he makes a stabb at their training staff and say they are bias and acting after their invest only
what a complete asshole
he cost the spurs another le or home court advantage
Let's put the Spurs aside for a while. If I were him, I would want to play in 2016 Olympics, which is close to home and Argentina have a shot at medals (if not gold medals) like their soccer team in the World Cup.
So I would rest my body for this summer, finish the current contract with the Spurs, sign another 1-year deal, and then retire after the Olympics. That would be a perfect farewell to a splendid career.
As if it weren't bad enough Manu's going to be playing in the World Cup, he's now also going to be playing injured. It really isn't an exaggeration to say his decision could be the difference between repeating or not.
A healthy Manu will make the Spurs the odds-on favourite to win the 2015 championship. A non-healthy Manu will seriously derail our prospects.
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