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His column is up:
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/autor/manu-ginobili-773
I think it says Manu is pissed.
After what happened tonight Manu better be thanking the organization for keeping him out of the tournament...
Basically, he confirmed that he started feeling pain around the area of the fracture and that meant the injury was not fully healed.
Yep. Looks like he was going to fight it but then the fact that he still had pain made the battle moot. He was out and he now has accepted it.
Manu probably saw George rip his leg in half tonight, I doubt Manu tries to rush back from any injury after that. That couldve been Manu!!!
I'll translate in a bit
The pain on the bone came back, and that’s when I knew I was out of the World Cup
by Manu Ginobili
A few months ago, after winning the NBA Championship with San Antonio, I wrote a tweet saying “I’m in”, referring to the World Cup that’s coming up in Spain. Truth be told, I finished the tournament in fairly good shape, I was euphoric and I wanted to be with my NT teammates one last time. I never imagined what was coming. After that announcement, in the regular exit physical, a routine MRI showed a very small stress fracture on the fibula, and a few days later, after coming back from my vacations, a CT scan confirmed it.
That’s where everything got complicated.
The Spurs directly requested that I just not play the World Cup, but I took that lightly. I clearly understood their worry but I didn’t necessarily agree with the recovery time recommended by the medical team from the franchise in their medical report. I looked for a second opinion from qualified professionals on the subject that let me know the fracture was very small and with forty days, the amount of days since the last game against the Heat until the first day of training in Buenos Aires, it would be enough for the injury to completely heal.
As it’s already known, and what we agreed upon with the Spurs, on July 25 I did a new MRI and CT scan to review the progress on the injured area, and the local doctors transmitted optimism and good news. It was looking good, but the final word was with the franchise, after they evaluate this new study.
There’s a clause in the NBA/FIBA agreement that deals with the participation of NBA players on their national teams, it reads: “The players are not authorized to practice or compete with their national teams when there’s a reasonable medical concern which might put the participating player under a risk of injury, disease or other damage”.
That clause was trouble for me, since that gave them the legal power to prohibit me from playing the World Cup.
The answer wasn’t the one I was expecting. They said that due to the images received, it was not conclusive that the injury was fully healed, and thus there was still a “reasonable medical concern”. Accordingly, I was still prohibited from playing.
Up to this point, that was the timeline of events.
I think I only had one chance to be able to play in this situation, which was to ignore the request from San Antonio and look for some sort of arbitration with a FIBA’s assigned doctor that would determine if such “medical concern” was reasonable or not, something that’s certainly subjective.
It was logical. Even though it could create a problem later on with San Antonio, it was my only chance. But here is when another delicate situation comes into view, and becomes definitive for this whole ordeal. In order for the bone to fully heal, I spent 42 days without training normally, without jumping or running, so there would be no stress on the fibula. And that made me get to the first day of training for the NT in extremely poor physical shape. When you’re 37 years old, it’s not easy to get back and start like nothing happened, that’s why we tried to accelerate the fitness aspect after sending out the studies to San Antonio. I started to do some workout on the pool, fairly well, but when I moved to the treadmill pain started to show up in various places, especially on the right ankle and left foot. I did a lot of treatment and a lot of stretching and slowly it looked like it was getting better. But this Wednesday when I started to put more work in, run and shoot from the court, at the end of the session the pain came back on the same place in the fibula. That basically knocked out any expectations I had about putting together some sort of plan to plain in Spain, since requesting any kind of arbitration with FIBA was basically senseless considering the injury was clearly not fully healed.
I’m extremely sorry about this news. I’m sad and disappointed. I wanted to say goodbye to the NT on the court and with my friends, but it won’t happen. I’ll spend time with the team as much as I can, trying to support them from outside at every moment, like I’m sure all of you will be doing, both during the friendly games and watching on TV during the tournament.
http://canchallena.lanacion.com.ar/1...jo-del-mundial
dude wanted to push it into arbitration. Manu being Manu tbh. Gotta love him
I dunno... I think there could be some lip service in there, tbh...
Definitely was. I still like it. As much as we grow attached to the team/organization we get attached to players. Manu has always been cavalier, it's part of who he is. But the spurs take care of him and he knows that
Yup, after reading his post, he makes it look like everybody acted in their best interest, and that nobody is directly responsible for his pulling out of the WC. In the end everybody is happy and nobody looks bad. Good PR job.
Saving face before 3rd world peeps kidnap and rape his wife and kids, tbh.
I think he saw the PG injury and decided not to chance it.
In before anyone mentions Paul George.
That's how i read it, too.
40 days of rest, but Manu tibia still sore, or cracked.
60 more days until start of camp.
I would be surprised if Manu was both healed and in game shape before Jan '15.
His kids could be shot in a first world school or in a first world terrorist attack, tbf.
Far less likely in a first world country, tbh.
Thanks for translating.
Quite the rational and diplomatic piece from Manu!
Thank goodness.
I could see this statement as an elaborate lie. It covers Manu in every way. It's going to be nice to have him and TP 100%
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