Old news: the Lauvergne ankle sprain was worse than they thought

[SAGirl]

Reserve center Joffrey Lauvergne missed his fifth consecutive game with a right ankle sprain suffered in an Oct. 21 win over Toronto.
Popovich said he was surprised at the severity of Lauvergne's injury.
"It was worse than we thought, I guess," Popovich said. "I thought he would be out for three or four days but I guess it was a higher sprain than what I thought initially."
Popovich said it could be "four, five or six days" before Lauvergne returns to the floor.
In the meantime, Lauvergne's absence has forced Popovich to play smaller on his second unit than he normally would. At 6-foot-11, Lauvergne is the lone traditional big off the Spurs' bench.
"I think he has been doing a good job for us," Popovich said. "He's a valuable big man off the bench. He's very mobile and can do some things, so we miss him."

http://www.expressnews.com/sports/ar...d-12328090.php

[hater]

Laverne will be back mid november

Parker late december

Kawhi not in 2017

[raybies]

brought a lot of energy off the bench, we miss him no doubt. His passing was contagious and we got a lot of easy buckets.

[dabom]

Some one pink that got amused.

[dbestpro]

Go get Okafor for a first round pick, as long as he signs for a second year.

[pad300]

Go get Okafor for a first round pick, as long as he signs for a second year.

No, Okafor is not a good player. Do not give up a first round pick for him. You'd do much better resigning David Lee. Also, you would have to dump someone for either...

[YGWHI]

Sadly, evaluation and diagnosis don't exactly seem Spurs' doctor strengths.

[tholdren]

Sadly, evaluation and diagnosis don't exactly seem Spurs' doctor strengths.

Nor keeping players healthy, thin, or explosive is a strength of spurs st and cond coach

[YGWHI]

Nor keeping players healthy, thin, or explosive is a strength of spurs st and cond coach

[UZER]

Sadly, evaluation and diagnosis don't exactly seem Spurs' doctor strengths.

Nor keeping players healthy, thin, or explosive is a strength of spurs st and cond coach

And that's with a head coach that only plays them 30 min a game and rests their wittle boo-boos every other game.

[YGWHI]

And that's with a head coach that only plays them 30 min a game and rests their wittle boo-boos every other game.

Just image how worse it could get if Spurs' doctors and strength&conditioning staff work for a coach like Thibs/D'Antoni.

[NASpurs]

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